Il Postino DVD Review
Jonathan Gleneadie
As Mario Ruoppolo (Massimo Troisi) cycles the streets of his small Italian island town in his ill-fitting suit, echoes of Bicycle Thieves sound from the dilapidated walls . Simul... Read More...
EIFF 2018 Round Up – The Return / The Parting Glass / Calibre
The Return
Blending documentary & drama is fraught with risk. Often it ends with a confusing mishmash of styles, resulting in a thoroughly unpleasant aesthetic assemblage, leaving you questioning... Read More...
McKellen: Playing the Part Review
How to get a man who has spent his entire career playing a part, to be truly honest about his life. This was the challenge that fell to Joe Stephenson and his team when confronting the living legend that is act... Read More...
The Post DVD Review
Steven Spielberg is a busy man. In between executive producing every third television show and film that comes out of the US, he has found time to direct to huge passion projects in The BFG and Ready Player One... Read More...
The Touch DVD Review
Perhaps a more fitting title for Ingmar Bergman’s 1971 fidelity drama The Touch, would be The Choice. Such is the dilemma that faces the protagonist Karin (Bibi Andersson), she must choose between two men she l... Read More...
Mother! DVD Review
There is no one making films like Darren Aronofsky. Noah aside (although it’s not that bad really) , the writer/director from the US is forging a bold and distinctive furrow of his own making. It is no surprise... Read More...