Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival 2015: Anomalisa + Rabin, the Last Day + To Sleep with Anger + De Palma By Stephen Mayne / 9 September 2015 Anomalisa, Rabin, the Last Day, To Sleep with Anger and De Palma make for one hell of a day
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘Courted’ + ‘Frenzy’ By Stephen Mayne / 8 September 2015 Falling in love in Courted and falling apart in fear in Frenzy.
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘The Clan’ + ‘A Bigger Splash’ + ‘Man Down’ + ‘Heaven Can Wait’ By Stephen Mayne / 7 September 2015 An old favourite rides to the rescue.
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘The Danish Girl’ + ‘The Wait’ + ‘A War’ By Stephen Mayne / 7 September 2015 All eyes on Denmark and shelter from the rain..
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival Diary 2015: ‘Black Mass’ + ‘Italian Gangsters’ + ‘Spotlight’ + ‘Equals’ By Stephen Mayne / 7 September 2015 Here comes Johnny, but stay away from Boston.
Events/Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Short Ends and Leader Venice Film Festival 2015: ‘Neon Bull’ + ‘Looking for Grace’ + ‘Beasts of No Nation’ By Stephen Mayne / 7 September 2015 The 72nd Venice Film Festival kicks off with Neon Bull, Looking for Grace and Beasts of No Nation
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Reviews The Awful Beauty of ‘The Tribe’ By Stephen Mayne / 2 September 2015 In a bleak tale of violence and revenge, The Tribe astonishes with style even more than it shocks with content.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Reviews/Television Orson Welles Is Like the Eccentric Uncle in ‘Around the World With Orson Welles’ By Stephen Mayne / 27 August 2015 A combination of sublime and ridiculous makes for a surprisingly enjoyable show.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Reviews The ‘Magician’ Is Orson Welles, But Not As You Know Him By Stephen Mayne / 26 August 2015 The story of extravagant talent unfulfilled is turned on its head in this simplistic yet entertaining retelling of Orson Welles' career
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Reviews The First Wave of Releases in ‘The Films of Charlie Chaplin’ Find the Tramp at His Comic Peak By Stephen Mayne / 20 August 2015 The Kid, The Gold Rush and The Circus prove that the years have done nothing to diminish the brilliance of Chaplin's early comedy.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Reviews In ‘Hard to Be a God’, Slumming It Has Never Felt so Real By Stephen Mayne / 6 August 2015 Aleksey German's last film is part genius, part a confusing mess, and 100 percent a cinematic experience like no other.
Featured: Top of Home Page/Film/Reviews ‘The Four Warriors’ Boldly Goes Where Everyone Has Gone Before By Stephen Mayne / 4 August 2015 A highly derivative fantasy adventure, The Four Warriors feels like it might just manage to save itself. And then it promptly walks straight off a cliff.