Rainer Werner Fassbinder revels in the film noir period atmosphere he uses to tell his compelling life story of the once hugely successful actress Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), who is now in the early Fifties […]
Writer-directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore just about hold onto this raucous and vulgar seasonal sequel to Bad Moms, though it drifts away from them every now and again, finally losing the plot altogether at the […]
Barbara Sukowa stars as the Fifties scheming bordello singer Lola, who gets her claws into an upright politician (Armin Mueller-Stahl), in one of German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most ambitious, imaginative, accessible and successful films. Sukowa […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s bitter and revealing 1975 German film looks at how one minority group exploits others in an unpleasant tale of the survival of the fittest. Fassbinder himself plays Franz Biberkopf, aka Fox, a gay working […]
Co-writer/ director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s intriguing and stylish looking 1981 German film surprisingly overflows with sentiment and self-importance, and lacks the satiric bite and critical awareness of his best work. However, in other ways it […]
Co-writer/ director Pál Gábor attacks the Hungarian government of the day in his heartfelt tale of the rebellious young woman Vera (Veronika Papp) who tries to survive and prosper in the Stalin-era Hungary of 1948. Vera […]
Director Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the famous Agatha Christie murder mystery thriller Murder on the Orient Express is mostly stodgy, creaky and clunky, and finally unsatisfying, though his starry support cast are mostly welcome and it looks […]
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