An Insignificant Man, 2016. Directed by Khushboo Ranka and Vinay Shukla Starring Arvind Kejriwal, Yogendra Yadav and Santosh Koli. SYNOPSIS: An enthralling documentary following the political career of activist Arvind Kejriwal around the 2013 Delhi election, and his battle with two long standing political parties in India, the world’s largest democracy. An Insignificant Man chronicles […]
Movie Review – Brimstone (2017)
Brimstone, 2017. Directed by Martin Koolhoven. Starring Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Carice Van Houten and Kit Harrington. SYNOPSIS: A frontier woman turns fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher. An ingenious conglomeration of narrative complexity, Koolhoven’s audacious film Brimstone is tense, authentic and absolutely […]
Interview: Director Daniel Ragussis speaks on the genesis of Imperium and the experiences of emerging as a feature length director
Joshua Gill chats with Imperium director Daniel Ragussis… In the lead up to Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Imperium, an exciting thriller that looks at the true story of an FBI informant that infiltrates a neo-nazi terrorist cell, director Daniel Ragussis speaks to staff writer Joshua Gill about the degree to which he researched the white […]
Movie Review – Cosmos (2015)
Cosmos, 2015. Directed by Andrzej Zulawski. Starring: Sabine Azéma, Jean-Francois Balmer, Jonathan Genet and Johan Libéreau. SYNOPSIS: Cosmos follows two young men who arrive at a family-run guesthouse in rural France. Their anticipation of a few days peace and quiet is undermined by a variety of sinister occurrences. Do all these signs comprise a portent […]
DVD Review – Anthropoid (2016)
Anthropoid, 2016. Directed by Sean Ellis Starring Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Charlotte Le Bon, Anna Geislerova and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Anthropoid details the successful assassination of SS General, Reinhard Heydrich during World War II by a small group of Czech resistance fighters deployed by parachute near Prague. In line with […]
Movie Review – K-Shop (2016)
K-Shop, 2016. Directed by Dan Pringle. Starring: Ziad Abaza, Reece Noi, Scot Williams and Ewen MacIntosh. SYNOPSIS: Student Salah loses his father after an altercation with a gang of drunken customers. Overcome with grief, the pressure of his studies and his father’s failing business, Salah, in a modern Sweeney Todd tale, wages war against the […]
Movie Review – Lights Out (2016)
Lights Out, 2016. Directed by David F. Sandberg Starring: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello and Alexander DiPersia. SYNOPSIS: Plagued by an entity that only reveals itself when the lights are out, Rebecca and her little brother, Martin, work to find a way to rid their house of the spirit that is only tied to […]
Second Opinion – Midnight Special (2016)
Midnight Special, 2016. Directed by Jeff Nichols Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver and Jaeden Lieberher. SYNOPSIS: A sci-fi thriller exploring the government’s interest in the power a kidnapped boy possesses, and his journey that reconnects him with his father. Jeff Nichols’ latest film, Midnight Special, delves into territory unfamiliar to the director, […]
Movie Review – Eye in the Sky (2016)
Eye in the Sky, 2016. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Aisha Takow, Phoebe Fox, Gavin Hood, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan, Kim Engelbrecht, and Iain Glen. SYNOPSIS: The moral implications of sending a drone to eliminate three terrorists on the British military’s top five most wanted list suddenly […]
Second Opinion – Son of Saul (2015)
Son of Saul, 2015. Directed by László Nemes. Starring Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn and Jerzy Walczak. SYNOPSIS: Surrounded by the horror of living in Auschwitz, Saul, a Sonderkommando, attempts to bury the body of a boy who he claims as his son. Based on the same source material as Tim Blake Nelson’s film […]
