Film Review

Keith Maitland’s ‘Tower’ is the fascinating and powerful new documentary about the mass shooting which occurred on the University of Texas campus in the city…

In his feature directorial debut, James Schamus also wrote the screenplay based on the Philip Roth 2008 novel of the same name. Having read the…

After reading approximately 200 books on the subject, Steven Spielberg’s politically correct screenwriter, playwright Tony Kushner, decided it would be best to focus on the…

This first feature from the short film writer/director team of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert has been polarising since it first premiered at the Sundance…

Legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, credited with great influence on music and with inventing the genre known as ‘west coast swing,’ has been compared to…

“Hitler didn’t snub me; it was our president who snubbed me.” (Jesse Owens, quoted in his biography, Triumph.) The 1936 Olympic Games were a significant…

“I’m not the real criminal here.” Actor-turned-director Jodie Foster’s latest project is an ambitious, big budget thriller with an all-star cast, and the unexpected theme…

A good number of years in the making, Bessie is a HBO biopic chronicling the life of Bessie Smith, aka The Empress of the Blues.…

Labyrinth of Lies deals with a pretty much forgotten chapter in German history—the 1963 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. State prosecutors in the German city of Frankfurt…

Ciro Guerra’s Embrace of the Serpent is based on the diaries, written approximately thirty years apart, by German explorer Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American ethno-botanist Richard…

“What would Jean-Jacques Rousseau do?” Political satires often tend to be dark and sharp-edged; but this little comedy is a kinder, gentler political movie, which…

Kelly Reichardt is a director who leaves a distinctive stamp on her films. They are known for telling simple stories in a subtle, understated manner…