In Starred Up, director David Mackenzie takes us inside the violent world of a British prison as seen through the eyes of young Eric Love (Jack O’Connell) who has just been transferred from a Young Offender Institution to an adult jail. His prison ma …Read more

Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Conformist is undoubtedly one of the greatest films of the 70s and while its complex themes (including fascism, pedophilia and societal hypocrisy) have been discussed at large in the past, it’s time we focused on its beauty. …Read more

On the eve of her wedding, successful writer May (Cherien Dabis) travels to her home country of Jordan for the final preparations, but once there is confronted with the many unresolved problems of her family, as well as her own feelings of not-belong …Read more

In the mid-1920’s the Marx Brothers were perhaps the most celebrated entertainers in the United States, after a successful career in vaudeville they transitioned to Broadway where they continued making people laugh with their combination of surreal, …Read more

Vestments of the Gods should have been made as a stop motion film in the vein of The Nightmare Before Christmas and Paranorman and this is nothing if not a compliment; for the way in which Owen Panettieri’s sophisticated musical combines the macabre …Read more

“Carax is the essence of cinema” – Kiyoshi Kurosawa Leos Carax has made 5 and a half films in 32 years and the new documentary MR. X: A Vision of Leos Carax by Tessa Louise-Salomé, seems keen on discovering why a man of such talent, has such a small …Read more

Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) have been together for 39 years. George works as a music teacher in a Catholic high school and Ben is a painter, but we don’t even know any of this before we get to see them exchange vows during their wed …Read more

It seems as if most YA adaptations are the same: an ordinary teenager becomes the unlikely savior of a dystopian/futuristic society where values have been inverted, and at first glance The Giver is no different. Based on the 1993 novel by Lois Lowry, …Read more

Set in the Dust Bowl in the harsh years following the Great Depression, Dust Can’t Kill Me is a new country musical by Abigail Carney (Book) and Elliah Heifetz (Music & Lyrics), which opens with an irresistible invitation: as the charming Montgom …Read more

Fish-out-of-water stories are rarely as delightful as the one presented in Jump Man, which shows us what happens to siblings and plumbers extraordinaire, Mario (Jeff Essex) and Luigi (Benny Oyama) when they’re not battling evil flying turtles and sav …Read more