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REVIEW: Mud (Jeff Nichols – 2012)
The optimism of youth gets scrambled with the affairs of adults in Mud, the latest film from writer/director, Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter). It’s a stripped back approach to tracking the process of...
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DVD REVIEW: Hemingway & Gellhorn (Phillip Kaufman – 2012)
Nicole Kidman delivers a line as an elderly Martha Gellhorn, “I don’t want to be a footnote in someone else’s life.” Staring through the screen at the audience, with understated but exemplary make-up...
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REVIEW: What Richard Did (Lenny Abrahamson – 2012)
What Richard Did is directed by Lenny Abrahamson and written by Malcolm Campbell, based loosely on Kevin Power’s Bad Day in Blackrock. This compelling and powerfully acted drama won best Irish Film of...
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REVIEW: The Other Son (Lorraine Levy – 2012)
The Other Son takes the elemental fear of being separated from your child at birth and uses it as the gateway into some huge ideological questions. Two young men, one Israeli Joseph Silberg (Jules...
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REVIEW: TO THE WONDER (Terrence Malick – 2012)
With Tree of Life‘s release in 2011, To The Wonder is the fastest turn around made by the mysterious, maverick American film-maker Terrence Malick in his career. It’s a conflicting experience that on...
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REVIEW: A Band Called Death (Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett – 2012)
Right now, independent music documentaries are on the upswing. Though they’ve been around forever, there’s something of a renaissance in the works. First there was Some Kind of Monster, the...
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REVIEW: Beyond the Hills (Christian Mungiu – 2012)
Romanian director Christian Mungiu’s previous feature, the 2007 Palme d’Or winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a stark social realist drama set in Bucharest in 1987 during the final years of the...
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REVIEW: La Playa D.C (Juan Andres Arango Garcia’s – 2012)
Juan Andres Arango Garcia’s feature film debut, exquisite urban drama La Playa D.C., which screened as part of the Un Certain Regard lineup at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, takes a viewer intimately...
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REVIEW: Father’s Chair (Luciano Moura – 2012)
In Father’s Chair Brazilian star Wagner Moura (the star of Elite Squad and the sequel, The Enemy Within, as well as recently delivering an eye-catching supporting turn in Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium)...
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FIVE STAR FILMS #58: Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach – 2012)
I am not a fan of Noah Baumbach. His twee but dour films have turned me off year after year as I struggle to relate to them. Then along comes a leading girl that changes everything. Greta Gerwig is...
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