A Gentle Creature Review

Genre: Drama, Mystery Directed by: Sergey Loznitsa Starring: Vasilina Makovtseva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valeriu Andriutã,  First, the story: A Gentle Crea... Read More...

Dark Beacon Review

Genre: Horror, Thriller Directed by: Coz Greenop Starring: April Pearson, Jon Campling, Lynne Anne Rodgers Probably most of the people reading this wil... Read More...

Daphne DVD Review

Any new film about a young, single woman living in London will, inevitably, remind the potential viewer of the banal, sentimental horrors of the Bridget Jones s... Read More...

England Is Mine DVD Review

I wasn’t sure what to expect of England is Mine – what I probably didn’t anticipate was a feel good, ugly duckling story. Set in Manchester in the late 70s and ... Read More...

Lost in Paris Review

Genre: Comedy Directed by: Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon Starring: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Emmanuelle Riva What Lost in Paris would like to b... Read More...

89 DVD Review

There’s something poignant about athletes in later life reminiscing about their glory days. In 89, the new documentary about the finish to the First Division ch... Read More...

Revolution: New Art For A New World Review

Revolution – New Art For A New World is a feature length exploration of Russian art immediately before the 1917 revolution and in the short period immediately a... Read More...

Strangled Review

Strangled, directed by Arpad Sopsits, is a bleak examination of a series of necrophiliac murders in provincial Hungary between 1957 and 1968 (I appreciate that ... Read More...

Cause Of Death: Unknown Review

In 2005 Renate, the older sister of Norwegian director Anniken Hoel, was found dead in the psychiatric institution where for a year she had been undergoing trea... Read More...

The New Fire Review

The New Fire, screening at the Cambridge Film Festival on 20 October, looks at a new generation of young entrepreneurs and scientists involved in the developmen... Read More...

Churchill DVD Review

Winston Churchill is probably, next to Margaret Thatcher, the most contentious figure in 20th Century British politics. Demonised as a racist enemy of the worki... Read More...

Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 – Tate Liverpool Exhibition Review

The August Sander/Otto Dix exhibition at Tate Liverpool is one of the most satisfying exhibitions I’ve seen for a long time. The title is entirely appropriate... Read More...