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...

MGC Presents: Red Review

Red, directed by Michael Grandage and starring Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko and Alfred Enoch as his young assistant Ken, is a recording of a recent performance ... Read More...

Sicario 2 – Soldado DVD Review

Most people who’ll watch Sicario 2: Soldado will already have seen the first movie - a taut, cynical thriller with sterling performances from Benicio Del Toro, ... Read More...

The Happy Prince DVD Review

The Happy Prince, written, directed by and starring Rupert Everett, tracks the last years of the life of Oscar Wilde between his exile from England and his deat... Read More...

Bad Reputation – BFI London Film Festival Review

Bad Reputation tracks the career of Joan Jett, formerly of The Runaways and The Blackhearts, from the gift of a guitar one Xmas as a child, through the formatio... Read More...

Last Year In Marienbad DVD Review

Last Year In Marienbad, directed by Alain Resnais in 1961, is a film that has polarised the opinions of audiences and critics. For some, it’s a meditative illus... Read More...

The Nun DVD Review

In 1965, by the time Jacques Rivette directed The Nun - based on Denis Diderot’s posthumously published 1796 novel La Religieuse - the concept of separation of ... Read More...

The Deer Hunter 40th Anniversary Restoration Review

In 1978, when The Deer Hunter was released, the Vietnam War had ended a mere three years before. Direct US military involvement had ended two years before that.... Read More...

A Quiet Place DVD Review

With a cast of four, no more than a handful of lines of spoken dialogue and a running time of ninety minutes, A Quiet Place is one of the most minimal and compa... Read More...