11 October 2014 London In Part Two of my London Film Festival marathon, I review Mike Leigh’s magnificent Mr Turner, the … More
Category: Film
Filmucopia Part I: No Place Like Home
10 October 2014 London It’s London Film Festival time. I review Rolf de Heer’s stirring film Charlie’s Country, and the fun … More
Who’s That Girl?
4 October 2014 London Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn’s potboiler about a violently dysfunctional marriage, has the big screen adaptation it didn’t … More
Uh Huh, Her
Her, Spike Jonze’s unbearably winsome film about a man who falls in love with his computer operating system, drowns in a sea … More
The Thrill of the Lash
23 June 2014 London Roman Polanski’s film version of Venus In Fur – a sexual tug-of-war between a submissive director and a … More
Salò Revisited
9 April 2014 London Nearly forty years since its release, Pasolini’s film Salò, based on Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, … More
O Blue Come Forth
8 April 2014 London Derek Jarman’s final film, the exquisite Blue, gets a glorious re-screening in London’s IMAX cinema. I first … More
Rhapsody in Blue
7 April 2014 London Passionate, heart-breaking and occasionally ridiculous, Abdellatif Kechiche’s wonderful film Blue Is the Warmest Colour explodes onto … More
Falling Down the Canyon
12 February 2014 Invercargill Paul Schrader’s attempt at a directorial comeback – the low-budget erotic thriller The Canyons, starring Lindsay … More
Farewell, The Hoff
2 February 2014 Invercargill My tribute to Phillip Seymour Hoffman, the great American actor who died this week aged 46. … More
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