Articles By: Kezia Tooby
McCullin (2012)
Renowned British photojournalist Don McCullin is the fascinating subject at the heart of this multi- faceted documentary. The film opens with stills of a dilapidated darkroom; referencing a bygone age of photography and as the documentary progresses, another lost art becomes apparent; that of the photojournalist....
March 5th, 2013 | DVD Reviews | Read More
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
The American high school is a battlefield, bursting with stereotypes, the divide between jocks and so-called ‘wallflowers’ the focus of many a teen film. Heathers (1988) perfectly embodies the popular versus outsider conflict and reiterates just how cool it is to be different. The Perks of Being...
February 11th, 2013 | DVD Reviews | Read More
Quartet (2012)
This year the Cornwall Film Festival closed with Dustin Hoffman’s enjoyable comedy drama Quartet and what a lovely way to end. The film features a plethora of British acting gems including Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Tom Courtenay and the hilarious Billy Connolly and it is these wonderful actors...
November 21st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
God Bless America (2011)
Frank (Joel Murray) lives on his own, fed up with the deterioration of society due to mind numbing television programmes and idiotic presenters, his life hits rock bottom when he is fired from his mundane office job and told by his doctor that he has a brain tumour. He has nothing left to lose, his [...]
November 21st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Kauwboy (2012)
Kauwboy will represent the Netherlands in the competition for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2013 Academy Awards and there is not a more deserving film for this accolade. The title is literally translated as jackdaw boy and is about Jojo, a ten year old boy who is struggling to deal with his mother’s...
November 21st, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Elena (2011)
Elena (Nadezhda Markina) is middle aged and living with her wealthy husband, Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov) in his luxury apartment in Moscow. The couple sleep in separate rooms and we see in detail their repetitive daily routine. But Vladimir’s health is failing him and after a heart attack he plans to...
November 21st, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Yossi (2012)
Yossi (Ohad Knoller) is a thirty something doctor in Tel Aviv who hides the fact he is gay from all around him. He is a workaholic and is a very melancholic character. When a middle-aged woman walks into the hospital he insists on treating her, even though he appears not to know her, and the [...]
November 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
A film all about sound and set in one very claustrophobic location could be a disaster but Peter Strickland and the extremely talented Toby Jones ensure this is a riveting experience. Gilderoy (Toby Jones) is a documentary sound engineer who has just been employed by an Italian horror film studio to...
November 19th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More
Sightseers (2012)
From the director of Kill List (2011) comes an equally dark tale of love and murder. Written by comedians Steve Oram and Alice Lowe, who also star in the film as the main couple at the centre of the story, Sightseers is darkly comic with a distinctively British feel. The couple in question are Chris...
November 19th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Set in a beautiful British country manor house and focusing on one day, with the addition of some flashbacks, the film tells the story of Dolly (Felicity Jones) and her best friend Joseph (Luke Treadaway). It is the morning of Dolly’s wedding day to the suitably well to do Owen (James Norton) and she...
November 19th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More
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Kevin Matthews: I guess I'd sort of agree with that quote, Chris. As for the video, I will look for a clip of it available here in the U...
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Chris Knipp: People have been talking about a famous 1975 Saturday Night Live skit, "The Last Voyage of the Starship Enterprise," t...
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Chris Knipp: Anthony Lane of 'The New Yorker', calls this "A great, thundering cudgel of a movie, set to stun." I guess you'd agree,...
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Chris Knipp: Excellent review Miguel, especially of context and background. C-G's 2009 Eden Is West (Rendez-Vous with French Cinema ...
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Chris Knipp: Oh dear, well....I'll probably still enjoy it. I certainly did the last one. I always like the action and the together...
