Director James Gray’s biopic of British explorer Colonel Percival Fawcett is conscientious but terminally boring. Gray is a good director – Little Odessa (1994), The Yards (2000), We Own the Night (2007) – but this does not seem like […]
Writer-director Dax Shepard’s cert 15, R-rated 2017 action comedy is a mindless, mirthless and mucky belated TV series movie spin-off. The likeable and hard-working star duo of Dax Shepard and Michael Peña, playing miss-matched cops, could be […]
The trouble with director Daniel Espinosa’s enjoyable and entertaining 2017 sci-fi horror is that is an Alien ripoff, and, while that is in some ways a good thing, in others, it’s bad. The story is very familiar […]
Award-winning writer/director John Butler (The Stag) returns with a charming, crowd-pleasing story of the unlikely friendship between two Irish boarding school roommates – gay loner outsider Ned (Fionn O’Shea) and new boy macho star rugby player […]
French writer-director Jacques Demy withdraws from reality entirely now in his 1970 film – into childhood dreams and Freudian nightmares, both safe and disturbing at the same time. Catherine Deneuve romps through a magic forest […]
Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]
Writer-director Agnès Varda’s 1991 French documentary is a charming, bitter-sweet tribute to French film-maker Jacques Demy (nickname Jacquot) by his wife Varda, who shared his life from 1958 till his death on 27 October 1990, aged 59. Varda’s […]
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