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Review: The Last Man on the Moon

Posted by on Apr 11, 2016 in All, documentary, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

It is a credit to the charisma of Eugene Cernan – the titular last man on the moon – that his personality eclipses our final frontier. The...

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Review: Akira Kurosawa’s Ran 4K Restoration

Posted by on Apr 1, 2016 in action, All, drama, DVD/Blu-ray, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller, war | 0 comments

Ran was the first Akira Kurosawa film this critic ever saw. Buying a 576p DVD copy from a car-boot sale, I went home and watched it on my...

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Review: Eye In The Sky – “A wonderful film about an important issue”

Posted by on Apr 1, 2016 in All, Film, Headline, Reviews, thriller, war | 0 comments

Every once in a while a perfect thriller comes along. A perfect thriller isn’t necessarily a masterpiece that will change your life, or...

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Review: A Warrior’s Tail

Posted by on Mar 30, 2016 in action, All, animated, fantasy, Film, Headline, Reviews | 0 comments

In A Warrior’s Tail (Russian: Savva. Serdtse voin), the new fantasy adventure from Russian animation studio Gluk’oza Animation, the...

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Review: Pandorica

Posted by on Mar 30, 2016 in action, All, fantasy, Film, Headline, indie, Reviews, sci-fi, thriller | 0 comments

If a film opens to a crawl that reads, “A long time ago…” what is one inevitably going to think? That’s right. Star Wars. Except,...

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Review – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny

Posted by on Feb 27, 2016 in action, All, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

Whereas the monumentally successful Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2001) was a drama primarily and wuxia (it’s pronounced wu-shia, not...

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Review: Exposed – “Unsettling revelations, striking visuals”

Posted by on Feb 24, 2016 in All, Film, Reviews, thriller | 0 comments

The experience of viewing Exposed (formerly titled, and much more interestingly so, ‘Daughter of God’) felt like witnessing the first cut...

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Review: Bone Tomahawk – “A muscular, unpredictable and bloody western”

Posted by on Feb 20, 2016 in action, All, Film, horror, Reviews, thriller, Western | 0 comments

“You’re pretty angry for a guy named Buddy.” Following Slow West, The Hateful Eight and The Revenant, the deceased genre of the western...

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Review: Youth – “A feast for the cinematic senses”

Posted by on Jan 25, 2016 in drama, Film, Reviews | 0 comments

Art’s role in life, life’s role in art, age’s forced reflection on the two and its own role in both – this is what Youth concerns itself...

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