By Hannah McNicholas Dir: John Michael McDonagh Calvary pitches itself as a black comedy. This is probably putting it lightly. The follow up to McDonagh’s wildly successful debut The Guard (2011), Calvary unites a cast of Ireland’s finest […]
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Dir: Todd Haynes By David Pountain Anyone familiar with Todd Haynes’ wonderful 2007 Bob Dylan tribute I’m Not There will know that the man has no interest in making straightforward biopics. But even in the context […]
By Amanpreet Dosanjh Dir: Christopher Butler Scopia, an upcoming British independent horror, explores the life of a white-collar worker in London who, after seeking hypnosis treatment to cope with mild depression, discovers more about herself […]
By Alice Pickard Dir: Jose Padilha Original title: “Elite da Tropa” This film, the first in a series, follows the work of the Batalhão de Operacões Policiais Esperciais (BOPE), the Special Operations Force in Rio […]
Dir: Yuri Norshteyn By David Pountain At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, a large international jury of critics and animators voted Yuriy Norshteyn’s 1979 short, Tale of Tales, the greatest animated film of […]
Based on a true story and set against the backdrop of pulse-pounding post-punk, Killing Bono is the laugh-out-loud story of two brothers who never quite found what they were looking for. In 1976, brothers Neil (Ben […]