REVIEWS

Werner Herzog is a believer in what he calls ‘ecstatic truth’, meaning one can fictionalise aspects of reality, in order to reach a...

In 1989, investigative journalists Bryan Burrough and John Helyar released ‘Barbarians At The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco,’ considered...

For better or worse, films in the Nazi exploitation genre aren’t really made anymore. Also known as ‘nazisploitation’, these movies- made...

Hana and Alice are best friends about to enter high school. One day, they see Masashi, a boy about their age, on board a train. Alice...

In 2019, Takeshi Kitano released ‘Kubi,’ a Samurai novel, retelling the events of the 1582 Honnō-ji incident, in which the powerful...

Yuichi Ishii runs a rental family service called Family Romance, offering clients the chance to hire people to act as their spouses,...

It is 1988, and Czech bachelor František Louka is struggling to make ends meet. A talented cellist, his main source of employment is...

Over the last twenty years, Yorgos Lanthimos has cultivated an approach to filmmaking all his own. Like David Lynch, he has developed a...

Nicolas Cage is an endlessly watchable actor. From ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘Adaptation’ to ‘Pig,’ he has given many startlingly powerful,...

It is the early 1930’s, and the Nazis are gaining power in Germany. The young, unemployed Karl Hoffman is enthusiastic about the party,...

In the year 1876, Duncan McKaskel, his wife Susanna, and their young son Tom leave Pennsylvania, embarking on a journey through Wyoming-...

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to a space station above the oceanic planet Solaris, tasked with...

“A vision had seized hold of me, like the demented fury of a hound that has sunk its teeth into the leg of a deer carcass and is shaking...

Trouble is brewing at St. Charles, a Catholic Boy’s School. Random acts of violence break out between the students nearly every week,...

It is the 1990’s and Tatsuo is a low-level Yakuza. A charismatic Casanova, he is tasked with supplying Domon- a conservative misogynist...

In 1971, Oliver Reed purchased Broome Hall, a picturesque, 56-bedroom manor house nestling on the southern slopes of the Greensand Ridge...

In 1942, the wealthy district of Wannsee played host to a gathering of high-ranking officials of the Nazi party. Led by...

In 1985, Wim Wenders released ‘Tokya-Ga’, a love letter to the films of Yasujirô Ozu and the city of Tokyo. In that documentary, Wenders...

It is the 1920’s and in the picturesque seaside village of Littlehampton, trouble is brewing. Spinster Edith Swan begins receiving anonymous, obscene letters, which her father thinks are coming from their young Irish neighbour, Rose Gooding. Gooding denies sending the malicious mail, though few in the village believe her. It is up to female police officer Gladys Moss, alongside a couple of sympathetic ladies, to prove Gooding’s innocence and catch the real culprit before she

Films about real-life figures are always going to be divisive. All the more so when they are based on the figure in question's...