Dark Horse Review
Todd Solondz’s seventh feature length film finds the writer/director swimming in familiar waters but in this blackly comic tale Solondz has crafted perhaps his most complete and restrained film since Welcome to the Dollhouse in 1995. Solondz first introduces us to protagonist Abe, a hard to like schlub played with skill and conviction by Broadway … Read more
Debating Heaven’s Gate
Adam Batty posted an article at Hope Lies entitled Easy Rider and the Death of the Western which ended with the following paragraph, That it was a western that killed the New Hollywood is apt to the level of poetic beauty, with Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate the ultimate folly of a revitalised film industry born of … Read more
The Haunted Castle Review
Title a film The Haunted Castle and you are probably going to build up a certain number of expectations in an audience’s mind, namely there’s going to be a castle and it’s going to be haunted, but this early film by German master Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau is not the Gothic ghost story that you may … Read more
The Kid with a Bike Review
Cyril is a restless and stern-faced child with dogged determination, played brilliantly by Thomas Doret. The current subject consuming his determined mind is the loss of his bike and the absence of his father. The two are interconnected. Cyril has been abandoned at a care home by his father (Jeremie Renier), stranded with no clue … Read more