Berlin Review: Shepherds And Butchers
Playing in the Panorama section at the 66th Berlin Film Festival, Shepherds And Butchers is the latest drama from South African director Oliver Schmitz, and stars Steve Coogan (Philomena, 2013) and...
View ArticleBerlin Review: Midnight Special
Director Jeff Nichols presents his fourth feature, Midnight Special, featuring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kristen Dunst and Adam Driver. Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) is a very special child, with a...
View ArticleBerlin Review: War On Everyone
Terry (Alexander Skarsgård) and Bob (Michael Peña) are bad cops in every sense of the word. They spend their days hurtling around the streets of New Mexico in their heavily-dented car, taking bribes,...
View ArticleBerlin Review: The Patriarch (Mahana)
Set in 1960s rural New Zealand, The Patriarch (Mahana) follows the lives of two rival Maori dynasties, The Poatas and the Mahanas, who make a living rearing sheep on the lush green hills of the...
View ArticleBerlin Review: A Quiet Passion
Following on from 2014’s Sunset Song, British auteur Terence Davies returns with ‘A Quiet Passion’, a chamber-piece portrait of the life of one of America’s most notable ladies of letters, Emily...
View ArticleBerlin Review: Letters From War
With ‘Letters From War’, Portuguese Ivo M. Ferreira tackles the war years of one of his native country’s most famous authors, Antonio Lobo Antunes when he was working as a doctor during the Portuguese...
View ArticleBerlin Review: Alone In Berlin
Based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Hans Fallada, actor-director Vincent Perez casts Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson as Otto and Anna Quangel – a working class couple who, after the loss of...
View ArticleWatch a trailer for ‘The Club’
The latest from Chilean writer-director Pablo Larraín, The Club (2015) is a harrowing drama that takes as its inspiration the widespread cover-up of sexual abuse within the Catholic church. Starring...
View ArticleRead about ‘The Club’
After making a trio of films about the Pinochet era, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín returns with a harrowing new drama, The Club (2015), which takes as its subject the intrigue surrounding cover-ups...
View ArticleWelcome to ‘The Club’– Pablo Larraín discusses his provocative latest drama
When Spotlight (2015) recently triumphed at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, scooping up the award for Best Picture ahead of Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s all-consuming western The Revenant (2015), it...
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