One could say that with regards to stories and representations of clandestine migration, one has covered all possible angles, aspects, and themes. What remains is the specificity of experience, not to mention perspective and geography traversed, hidden and marginalised and so mu... Read More »
Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005) director Chris Wedge is back with Epic (2013), a kind of fairytale/nature parable. It tells the story of M.K. (Amanda Seyfried) who comes to live with her father Dr. Bomba (Jason Sudeikis) after her mother dies. Bomba lives in a big house in the... Read More »
Regarded by some as the last classically-oriented filmmaker in Hollywood, writer/director James Gray delivers a period piece steeped in nice detail and less appealing schmaltz. The Immigrant is essentially a melodrama triangulated around a practical-minded woman: think the setup ... Read More »
Iraqi-Kurdish filmmaker Hiner Saleem’s film in the Un certain regard section is a Kurdish western if there was one, as a former independence fighter Baran (Korkmaz Arslan) agrees to be sent to the northern Kurdish border town of Qamarian with Iran on one side and Turkey on the ot... Read More »
Caught somewhere between formula and freshness, Nebraska feels like a second-hand movie touched-up by a steady hand. Directing from a script by Bob Nelson, Alexander Payne (Election, Sideways) leaves his melancholic print over a slight, small-scaled story of a father and son. Lik... Read More »
Where to begin? This three-hour opus has been the talk of Cannes since its debut earlier this week, and at the time of writing is the forerunner to win the Palme d’Or. It had better. Tunisian filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche has crafted a beautifully intimate film that introduces us... Read More »
The tale of an outlaw who escapes from prison and sets out across the Texas hills to reunite with his wife and the daughter he has never met. Stars Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara and Ben Foster. Directed by David Lowery. Read More »
The Wolfpack is back and as unremarkable as ever! The good news is that Todd Phillips’s The Hangover Part III (2013) is better than The Hangover Part II (2011). The bad news is that it’s not nearly as good as The Hangover (2009), and that’s not high praise. Read More »
About halfway through The Hangover 3, the supposed final chapter in the Wolfpack saga, I realised I had been lied to. The title alluded to something that was present - front and centre - in the last two installments but nowhere to be found now. Read More »
In 1995, Pixar changed everything. The release of Toy Story made computer animation a viable commercial option and—it should be added—traditional 2D animation less viable. Other studios quickly took note: DreamWorks Animation was formed in part to exploit the newly emergent marke... Read More »
Noah Baumbach's (Greenberg; Margot at the Wedding; The Squid and the Whale) latest film presents something of a challenge both for critics and for moviegoers. It's either a buoyant celebration of one woman's indomitable spirit, ably embodied by co-writer and star Greta Gerwig, or... Read More »
Argentinian filmmaker Lucía Puenzo’s Wakolda, competing in Un Certain Regard, starts out like any other coming-of-age period drama, before taking the darkest of turns into decidedly creepy territory. It’s 1960 and Eva and Enzo are driving their family across Argentina to open a h... Read More »
Cannes Review: La Jaula de Oro (2013)
Review: Epic (2013)
Cannes Review: The Immigrant (2013)
Cannes Review: Blue Is the Warmest Colour (2013)
Review: The Hangover Part 3 (2013)
