Helmut Newton: The Bad and The Beautiful Review

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful is an overview of the career of Newton, the renowned fashion photographer who died in a car crash in Los Angeles in 200... Read More...

A Rainy Day In New York Review

Woody Allen’s romantic comedy/farce follows the upper middle class native New Yorker Gatsby (Timothée Chalamet) and his girlfriend Ashleigh (Elle Fanning) on a ... Read More...

In Search Of Greatness Review

Gabe Polsky’s documentary In Search of Greatness investigates the qualities and processes by which talented athletes become exceptional athletes. Throughout the... Read More...

Lullaby DVD Review

Based on the Prix Goncourt winning novel Chanson Douce by Leila Slimani, Lullaby tells the story of a young Parisian professional couple, Myriam (Leila Bekhti) ... Read More...

Doctor Sleep DVD Review

Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, picks up the story of Danny Torrance, the five-year-old protagonist of the latter movie, in adult life. Danny (Ewan McG... Read More...

Ophelia Review

It takes an admirable chutzpah to rewrite a play like Hamlet; but sacred cows are there to be slain, I suppose. Claire McCarthy’s romantic drama covers the even... Read More...

Charlie Says DVD Review

Mary Harron's Charlie Says revolves around three of Charles Manson's female acolytes - Susan Atkins (Marianne Rendón), Patricia Krenwinkel (Sosie Bacon), and Le... Read More...

Papi Chulo Review

John Butler's comedy-drama begins with TV weatherman Sean, played by the devilishly handsome Matt Bomer, suffering a minor breakdown on air. Consequently, he’s ... Read More...

Book Review: Stalingrad by Vasily Grossman

Stalingrad is the prequel to Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, published in English in the mid-eighties. The novel begins with a meeting between Hitler and Musso... Read More...

The World Is Yours DVD Review

At the end of Brian De Palma’s 1983 version of Scarface, Al Pacino falls into a fountain with a statue inscribed with the message “The World Is Yours”.  De Palm... Read More...

Prospect DVD Review

Christopher Caldwell and Zeek Earl's Prospect is an ultra low budget science fiction film, the story of teenager Cee (Carol Thatcher) and her father Damon (Jay ... Read More...

Pili DVD Review

The eponymous protagonist of Pili, played by Bello Rashid, is a young single mother with two small children working as a farmhand in rural Tanzania, and conceal... Read More...