Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (2004) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Film by Palmes D’Or winner Theo Angelopoulos. Angelopoulos is the art-film director your mother warned you about – his works …
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Butterfield 8 (1960) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Really, really dull. One memorable scene with a stiletto can’t make up for cardboard characters and dialogue that can’t even …
The Descent (2005) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Neil Marshall’s second exercise in studying a besieged group in a remote place at the mercy of monsters is well-made, …
Thief (1981) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Michael Mann’s debut holds up superbly. It pulsates with fully-evolved stylistic originality, and shows that Mann in many ways took …
The Mark of Zorro (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An odd duck for a classic swashbuckler – short, packed with droll humour, and with very little action. Its climactic …
Bad Education (La Mala educación, 2004) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
A long way from Almodovar’s best. Ultimately, the twisting story really goes nowhere. Nonetheless, it’s built with a system of …
Copying Beethoven (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Here it is folks, the film which finally asks one of the most important questions in the history of human …
Macbeth (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Geoffrey Wright’s version of Shakespeare, set amongst Melbourne gangland, could have been great – who can resist the idea of …
This Is England (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Shane Meadows’ first film, Twenty Four Seven, was a work that promised big things without delivering them, hyper-realistic but slightly …
City of God (Cidade de Deus, 2002) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
One of the best films of the decade, a Brazilian The Roaring Twenties, raw, violent, warm, hilarious, scary and confronting, …
