Film Review

To start with the obvious: no, there are no kasbah’s in Afghanistan. The writer was sufficiently attached to the rock-reference title that early in the…

Personal Shopper, French writer/director Olivier Assayas’ second consecutive English-language film, is difficult to categorise. It’s an indefinable mixture of classic ghost story, mystery, thriller, and…

This documentary is the companion piece to an earlier film, An Act of Killing (see below) by the same director. Nominated for an Oscar and…

Scheduled for release in the UK later this month, this film is both directed and written by relative newcomers. It’s a breakthrough for both; the…

Beginning in 2001, a series of films were produced which broke new cinematic ground on many levels. Dubbed the Fast Runner Trilogy (after the title…

Director Rahmin Bahrini along with veteran director/screenwriter Amir Naderi have obviously done a great deal of research in crafting this gripping meditation on the foreclosure…

Having graduated college in the 1970s, I had never heard of David Foster Wallace until I saw End of the Tour, based on David Lipsky’s…

Manos Sucias (or “Dirty Hands” in English) is a neat crime drama produced mainly by Spike Lee. It is the debut feature of Josef Kubota…

I would hesitate to dismiss any film by Spike Lee, who has a huge body of work covering over 35 years, much of it innovative…

A Pair of Doubles: Two Takes on the Doppelgänger In 2013, two films were released which, although very different in style, have such a similar…

After more serious films like Inside Llewyn Davis, the Coen brothers have opted for a genuine comedy. Being a Coen brothers movie, it’s not merely…

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Our Brand is Crisis could be categorised as a political comedy/drama, although the comedy is dark and…