Legacy
With the role of US Black Ops soldier Malcolm Gray in British independent film Legacy, Elba gets a long overdue fully developed lead part in which he gives a tour de force performance.
Review by Alexander Pashby
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Jackboots on Whitehall
What if the British army was stranded at Dunkirk and we lost the Battle of Britain?
Review by Alexander Pashby
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?
‘David Lynch presents: A film by Werner Herzog.’ Opening credits really don’t get any better than that.
Review by Alexander Pashby
The Vice Guide to Film: Mexican Narco Cinema
Smith travels from Texas to Tijuana, on the way doing a great job of putting Mexico’s ultra-violent Narco Cinema of drug runners, fetishised cars and bad cops in context.
Review by Alexander Pashby
IL DIVO
Il Divo, which translates as ‘The Divine’, is just one of the nicknames given to Giulio Andreotti, who was Prime Minister of Italy seven times between 1972 and 1992. The others, including ‘The Man of Darkness’, ‘The Black Pope’ and ‘Beelzebub’, give a good indication of Andreotti’s notoriety.
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TOKYO SONATA
In Tokyo Sonata, the story of a typical Japanese family, Kurosawa is concerned with the borders between people, both on a domestic and a national scale.
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GONZO: THE LIFE AND WORK OF DR S THOMPSON
You’ve probably seen Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, you may have even read the book, but did you know that in 1970 Hunter S Thompson ran for sheriff of Aspen on the platform that no drug worth taking should have to be paid for?
Review by Alexander Pashby
KING OF NEW YORK
The Fun Lovin’ Criminals took it as the title of one of their tracks and it’s not much of an exaggeration to say Biggie Smalls claimed to be it every other line in his raps, but the popular use of the phrase ‘King of New York’ originates with Abel Ferrara’s 1990 film about a drug lord who eliminates his competition in order to make enough money to save a Harlem hospital.
Review by Alexander Pashby
SOMERS TOWN
Somers Town, the latest feature from cult British director Shane Meadows, is the charming story of two 16-year-old boys who find friendship when they fall for the same French waitress. By why does it seem like one big advert for Eurostar?
Review by Alexander Pashby
THE JEUNET/CARO COLLECTION
Before Amélie and before Alien: Resurrection, French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet had a partnership with designer and comic book artist Marc Caro, which began in 1974 when the pair met at an animation festival.
Review by Alexander Pashby