A Dangerous Method
Posted 7:08pm Sunday 13th May 2012
Based on the play The Talking Cure, David Cronenberg directs this drama based on the true story of the turbulent love triangle that developed between two towering intellectuals – Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) – and a troubled patient (Kiera Knightley). Seduced by Read more...
The Ides of March
Posted 6:37pm Sunday 11th March 2012
George Clooney’s new film The Ides of March tells us something we probably already knew: That the experience of running an American political campaign is damaging for both one’s heart and soul. In an atmosphere heavily dripping with betrayal it is easy from the outset to be drawn in amongst the Read more...
The Orator
Posted 3:50am Monday 17th October 2011
Director: Tusi Tamasese I went into the Rialto having read many a good review for The Orator, even rumours of an Oscar nomination. I left not knowing if I had gone to see the same film. If you want to watch a beautiful portrait of the intricacies of Samoan culture - its faith, its Read more...
Little White Lies
Posted 4:07am Monday 3rd October 2011
Director: Guillaume Canet (2.5/5) Nothing, but nothing, will stand between the French middle classes and their hols, though a bunch of friends do pause for thought when their friend is left in a coma after a motorbike spill in Paris. Guillaume Canet’s 2010 French film Little Read more...
Hanna
Posted 6:07am Monday 19th September 2011
Director: Joe Wright (3.5/5) Think The Bourne Identity but in the form of a teenage girl who has been trained by her father from babyhood to be an ice-cold killer, and you have Hanna. The film begins sixty miles below the Arctic Circle. There, in a snowscape across which a deer Read more...
How I Ended This Summer
Posted 4:04am Monday 5th September 2011
Directed by Shinsuke Sato, (2.5/5). A prizewinner at both the Berlin and London film festivals, How I Ended This Summer is set and shot amongst the remoteness of the Arctic Circle. Amongst this breath taking landscape, two meteorologists operate a weather station, gathering detailed Read more...
Beyond
Posted 4:38am Monday 25th July 2011
Directed by: Pernilla August. (4/5). Previously seen in the Millennium trilogy, Noomi Rapace lives up to her newfound fame in Beyond, a domestic drama centred on alcohol abuse and misguided love. Set in Sweden, Rapace plays Leena, a wife and mother who has spent years shaking the painful Read more...