Among the many veterans making a comeback at the moment – Kate Bush, the cast of the original Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs from the original Jurassic Park – let’s take a moment to celebrate caves. They’ve been around forever – literally – but they’re hotter than ever now, with Robert […]
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Enter the Void (2009): a city symphony in 21st-century neon (Review)
Gaspar Noé’s new film Vortex, currently on release in UK cinemas, is shocking audiences in perhaps the only way Noé can shock people at this juncture: by removing his usual graphic violence and unsimulated sex in favour of a sensitive exploration of dementia and death. There is another film called […]
Dobermann (1997) 25th Anniversary Re-Release (Review)
Twisting the Knife: Nightcap (2000) & The Flower of Evil (2003)(Review)
Twisting the Knife: The Swindle (1997) and The Colour of Lies (1999)(Review)
Rene Laloux (Fantastic Planet & Time Masters)
Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips & Rust and Bone)
Lies and Deceit: Madame Bovary (1991), Betty (1992), Torment (1994) (Review)
Lies and Deceit – Cop Au Vin (1985) & Inspector Lavardin (1986)(Review)
Le Samourai (1967) Alain in the Underworld (Review)
Criterion delivers Alain Delon’s most iconic performance to Blu-ray this week with the release of Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic, Gallic ode to ’40s US gangster movies, Le Samourai. In what is arguably his greatest role, the impossibly handsome Delon stars as as assassin-for-hire Jef Costello. Dressed in trenchcoat and a deeply […]