Director Atom Egoyan delivers an honest, conscientious and compelling film dramatization of the real-life savage murders of three eight-year-old boys – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore – in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993, and the subsequent […]
This rich and strange 2013 Icelandic tragi-comic charmer (originally Hross í oss) is written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson and produced by fellow director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for […]
Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Dido Belle, the illegitimate mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy officer, brought as a child to England by her father Captain Sir John Lindsay (Matthew Goode), who leaves her in the […]
A haunted mirror, that’s the big problem here. It’s an ornate antique that throughout the ages makes its owners kill themselves and other. Now that’s really not nice, is it? And it’s nothing new either, maybe. Yet […]
Kyle Catlett stars as the titular T.S. Spivet a 10-year-old prodigy into cartography and scientific inventions. When he gets news from the Smithsonian Museum telling him he’s won the prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine, he […]
Director Michael Patrick Jann’s 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious, bad-taste fake documentary (‘mockumentary’) about a Minnesota small town teen-pageant beauty contest, in which poor girl Kirsten Dunst fights it out with rich […]
Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]
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