Cyrus Review
Still struggling to get over his divorce John (John C. Reilly) is finding life pretty tough but when he meets the new love of his life, Molly (Marisa Tomei), things start looking up. That is until he meets Cyrus (Jonah Hill). Cyrus is Molly’s adult son and despite his age he still lives at home … Read more
Detention Review
Joseph Kahn’s debut feature Torque was an odd film that led to some pretty fascinating defences, in particular from online critics who believed that the film had been crucially misunderstood. Whilst the film may be misunderstood in some ways it is far from being a film worthy of high praise and the extent to which Kahn manages … Read more
Strigoi Review
Opening with a montage of sequences that recall the ‘Previously on…” style recaps that are ever so popular on American television, Stigoi throws the viewer into the Romanian village in which it is set with swift and enthusiastic vigour. These scenes also introduce us to the bulk of the central chracters, a group of Romanian … Read more
Late Mizoguchi Review
Oyû-sama aka Miss Oyu (1951) In an early sequence in Oyu-sama a character walks out into a garden, the movement framed in one uninterrupted take, the camera lingering back, the audience observing the man from afar. The distance and almost sad beauty in the scene sets the tone of the film to come. The film centres on a love triangle between … Read more