film Archive

Goodbye First Love Review

The Trouble with filming ‘first love’ is that much of the audience will have passed through this phase and will either know vaguely what is going to happen or will disagree with how events unfold. ‘First love’ is also a very personal experience that everyone goes through, giving one person’s story an air of importance [...]
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Marley Review

Hopefully not too many patrons attending screenings of this film expected to see the return of a previously believed dead Labrador sans Jennifer Aniston, Marley is of course the documentary film about the life of Bob Marley, world renowned reggae artist and Rastafarian. Bob Marley is revered by many for his music and his message [...]
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This Must Be The Place Review

An existential journey of an ageing rocker or ‘Robert Smith goes hunting Nazis’, if either of those descriptions sounds appealing then This Must Be the Place is the film for you. This film bestrides the breach between light-hearted Coenesque comedy drama and something that is far more meaningful. It achieves an exquisite balance between these [...]
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Le Havre Review

The prolific Aki Kaurismäki is back after a 5 year hiatus to deliver his latest film Le Havre. Normally there are no more than 2 or 3 years between releases for the productive Finn but this lengthier break has not been detrimental to the quality the writer/director produces. Le Havre is a sublimely bewildering mix [...]
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Four Horsemen DVD Review

Amid all the discussion and furore about the current economic crisis there are a few clear voices. Amongst the allocation of blame, the political one-liners and the prescriptions to return the economy to its previous equilibrium there are some determined to find the root cause of the crisis and cut it out. In Four Horsemen [...]
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Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists Review

Although not as glamorous or prolific, Aardman Animations is starting to be talked about in the same breath as Disney and Studio Ghibli. Revered in the UK, they are attempting to storm the echelons of animation legend reserved for Walt and Hayao Miyazaki. The Adaptations of Gideon Defoe’s Pirates! adventures may be just the way [...]
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