Our Little Sister, 2015. Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzo Hirose, Ryô Kase and Ryôhei Suzuki. SYNOPSIS: Three sisters experience a new chapter in their lives when they discover they have a younger half sister and invite her into their home. An intimate and warm story of sisterhood and familial ties, […]
DVD Review – The Fjällbacka Murders (2012)
The Fjällbacka Murders, 2012. Based on stories by Camilla Läckberg Starring Claudia Galli Concha, Richard Ulfsäter, Lennart Jähkel, Jan Malmsjo, Amanda Ooms and Per Myrberg. SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the novels by Camilla Läckberg, the Fjällbacka Murders revolve around a successful crime writer and murderous goings on in Fjällbacka, Sweden. Like a Scandi version of the Midsomer Murders, everything that can go […]
Movie Review – Where You’re Meant To Be (2016)
Where You’re Meant To Be, 2016. Directed by Paul Fegan. Starring Aidan Moffat and Sheila Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Documentary charting the progress of a Scottish artist as he attempts to rewrite his country’s oldest songs. “Folk music needs a good editor” Aidan Moffat says at one point during this heartfelt and incisive documentary. It’s just one […]
DVD Review – Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Battle for Sevastopol, 2015. Directed by Sergey Mokritskiy. Starring: Yuliya Peresild, Evgeniy Tsyganov, Joan Blackham, Oleg Vasilkov and Anatoliy Kot. SYNOPSIS : A biographical film charting the story of Soviet Ukrainian Lyudmila Pavlichenko, one of the deadliest snipers in World War II. The joint Russian and Ukrainian production of The Battle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol) […]
DVD Review – Follow the Money: The Complete Season One
Follow the Money: Season One Created by Jeppe Gjervig Gram Starring Thomas Bo Larsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Natalie Madueño, Thomas Hwan, Esben Smed Jensen, Lucas Hansen, Line Kruse, Julie Grundtvig Wester and Lars Simonsen. SYNOPSIS: As the fraudulent financial dealings of leading Danish energy company Energreen are investigated by police, a wide circle of characters […]
Blu-ray Review – Trapped: Complete Season One
Trapped: Season One Created by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Nina Dögg Filipusdottir, Bjarne Henriksen and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson. SYNOPSIS : In a remote town in Iceland, local police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. The recent success of Trapped – or if you’re feeling like brushing up […]
Blu-ray Review – Three Brothers (1981)
Three Brothers, 1981 Directed by Francesco Rosi Written by Tonino Guera, Francesco Rosi Starring: Phillipe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol, Maddalena Crippa, Rosaria Tafuri, Marta Zoffoli, Charles Vanel SYNOPSIS : Three brothers are summoned by their father to be together in the wake of their mother’s death. The three reflect on their differing lives […]
Movie Review – The Club (2015)
The Club, 2015. Directed by Pablo Larrain. Starring Alfredo Castran, Roberto Farias, Antonia Zegers, Jaime Vadell, Alejandro Goic, Alejandro Sieveking, Marcelo Alonso, Jose Soza and Francisco Reyes. SYNOPSIS: A crisis counsellor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced members of the clergy, suspected of crimes ranging from child […]
DVD Review – Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter, 2015. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anthony Edwards, John Palladino, Jim Gaffigan, Harley Ware, John Leguizamo and Anton Yelchin. SYNOPSIS: In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority. Michael Almereyda’s biopic about Stanley Milgram’s […]
Movie Review – James White (2015)
James White, 2015 Directed and written by Josh Mond Starring Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi, Ron Livingston, Makenzie Leigh, David Call SYNOPSIS: A hedonistic twenty-something must come to terms with personal responsibility in the face of his mother’s battle with serious illness. Painting a painful and believable account of modern city life, this impressive […]
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