Month: October 2015

Unfortunately for Villeneuve, Sicario is just as dumb as its ‘big dumb’ contemporaries and all the pregnant pauses and sombre shootouts don't convince otherwise.

Costa’s psychical-social-realism makes for a difficult and sometimes disturbing watch, but this is as honest and unique and vital a film as you will ever see.

Can’t believe it’s been nearly 30 years since them slags ran over Pasolini with his own motor, it still freaks my nut out to this day.

It is interesting that, after the initial and quite positive effects of Abe’s big, paradigm-shifting action, he descends into madness, becoming perhaps unexpectedly the villain of a piece that seemed…

Ultimately, the film is entertaining, but somewhat naïve (and at worst disingenuous and condescending) in its treatment of pertinent issues facing America that it pretends to tackle head-on.

Four words in the opening credits that let you know this documentary about Mexican drug cartels is going to be red hot, spit-shined State Department propaganda: ‘Executive Producer Kathryn Bigelow’.

Screenwriter Jesse Andrews and director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon pull off a tricky tonal balancing act, seamlessly combining a snarky sense of humour with profoundly moving moments that feel earned and never…

Despite an unfortunate drift into sentimentality in its final moments (typical of Moretti), Mia Madre is a compassionate and provocative film that engages in difficult questions about death and cinema…