Wild Card review
Simon West‘s Wild Card is rooted in William Goldman’s 1985 novel Heat but has more in common with the 1986 feature film adaptation of the same source material, also scripted by Goldman; and while West has made some of his own updates to that eighties-set story about a soldier of fortune living in Las Vegas, he has thankfully kept the best of Goldman’s screenplay intact. … Read more
Enough Said review
Enough Said will, perhaps, be somewhat overshadowed by the sad passing of the film’s male lead, James Gandolfini, but Nicole Holofcener’s latest is a breezy, sun drenched, fun LA comedy of the highest order. One is quickly consumed by the warm and witty humour and charm of Enough Said and it’s perhaps only upon looking … Read more
Abuse of Weakness review
Any interest I found in Abuse of Weakness – aside from being impressed yet again by how remarkable an actress Isabelle Huppert is – derived from knowledge I took into the film of similarities between the events depicted and to things that actually happened to director Catherine Breillat. This sort of contextual interest is an … Read more
Hirokazu Koreeda interview for Like Father, Like Son
Hirokazu Koreeda’s sublime Like Father, Like Son premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year and won the Jury Prize. It was one of my favourite films of the festival and I was lucky enough to see it again at the London Film Festival this week. I was also lucky enough to speak to … Read more