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Bedways (2010)
Sometimes we need to step back and inspect our lives through the cold lens of objectivity in order to make some sort of sense of our existence. But is it possible? Nina (Miriam Mayet) recruits two...
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To Dream and Dream Again: Hugo (2011)
**SPOILERS** A gigantic piece of machinery claims the screen for a few moments before it dissolves into a panoramic view of 1925 Paris. We quickly hone in on a somnolent city that is slowly waking up...
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Great Expectations (2011)
The BBC’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’s book is an uneven assortment of gripping drama and casting blunders. Pip’s (Douglas Booth) dismal existence takes a turn for the better when he receives a...
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A Tale of the Other Mother: Magna Mater (2011)
L-orizzont quddiemhom kien linja fina u definita qisha maqtugħa fil-ħġieġ. It’s gratifying to think of the self as a unique entity that exists somewhere deep down inside one’s soul or mind (take your...
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Fish Tank (2009)
Some films, despite being beautifully realised, are hard to enjoy given their subject matter. Fish Tank is one such film. Mia Williams (Katie Jarvis) is fifteen years old and has no friends. Her...
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Savages (2012)
Oliver Stone‘s latest film sits uncomfortably between his best and his worst, occupying a spot that is the cinematic equivalent of a boring holiday: so much promise yet ultimately very little to write...
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012)
It has cheesy written all over it but Lorene Scafaria‘s directorial debut is anything but. Dodge Petersen’s (Steve Carell) wife legs it after the radio announces the imminent collision of asteroid...
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Overture (2011)
Dan Sachar’s short film is a poetic, elegiac gem that subscribes to the best tradition of the less-is-more maxim. A solitary man (Miko Ben Porat) inhabits a bleak forest that is eerily barren. He...
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
F Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel is regarded as a modern classic (some claim that it’s one of two perfect novels) and consequently, the expectations for Baz Luhrmann‘s cinematic adaptation were orbiting...
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Spring Breakers (2012)
Harmony Korine‘s latest is a garish mandala of excess energised by rivers of alcohol, violence, drugs and pink bikinis. Childhood friends Faith (Selena Gomez), Brittany (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa...
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The Iceman (2012)
It’s always a pleasure to go to the cinema with no expectations whatsoever and come across a gem such as Ariel Vromen’s The Iceman. The title refers to Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon), a disturbed...
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Captain Phillips (2013)
Director Paul Greengrass‘s shaky-cam take on this tale of modern day piracy is more preoccupied with conflicting realities than it is with good guys and bad guys. Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) is in...
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Gravity (2013)
Alfonso Cuarón’s space drama is a work of undisputed technical virtuosity, a tense thriller that is fearless in presenting an emaciated plot. Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is on her first space...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
The second installment of The Hunger Games series (three books and four films) is a riveting dystopian thriller that leaves other, bigger blockbusters released in 2013 in the dust. Katniss Everdeen...
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Money for Something: The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
It is tempting to see Martin Scorsese’s new film as an indictment of the consumerist/capitalist culture, a morality play tragedy whose hero becomes the villain and has his comeuppance. But in doing so...
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Blue Jasmine (2013)
:) :) :) :( :( Woody Allen’s yearly appointment takes the form of a Cate Blanchett-driven study of a woman dancing on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Jasmine (Blanchett) finds refuge at her sister...
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Out of the Furnace (2013)
In Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace, the indefatigable Christian Bale churns out yet another admirable performance. Unfortunately, despite its promise, the film is highly derivative and rarely...
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Noah (2014)
Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, a retelling of the biblical tale of the flood, is part epic, part blockbuster and part spiritual odyssey. Ultimately it fails in all departments as, similarly to what had...
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The Beautiful and the Bland: La Grande Bellezza (2013)
I am damnably sick of Italy, Italian and Italians, outrageously, illogically sick…. I hate to think that Italians ever did anything in the way of art…. What did they do but illustrate a page or so of...
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The Double (2013)
Richard Ayoade‘s second feature is yet another literary adaptation, this time of The Double, a Fyodor Dostoevsky novella about a government employee who goes bonkers. Simon James (Jesse Eisenberg) is...
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