Carnage
This is cinema as scab-picking and the characters are all cursed with an inability to let anyone else have the last word.
Review by John Bleasdale
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Punishment Park
All you non-conformists, step this way.
Review by John Bleasdale
Double Take: Shame
Is Steve McQueen’s much anticipated second film a truly great film or does it fall short?
Double take review by John Bleasdale and Sarah Cronin
A Man Vanishes
It perhaps will come as a surprise that over 40 years ago, Sh;;hei Imamura created the quintessential mockumentary.
Review by John Bleasdale
The Ballad of Narayama
The cruelty of survival is the focus of Sh;;hei Imamura’s stunning film, based on a conflation of two short stories by Shichir;; Fukazawa.
Review by John Bleasdale
Manhunter
Both Demme and Mann kept their culinary psychopath to a minimum and allowed his dissonance to resonate through the rest of their films.
Review by John Bleasdale
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Staying true to the spirit of the book, Tinker is the anti-Bourne.
Review by John Bleasdale
Days of Heaven
The whole point of the film is imperfection, the unsustainability of heaven on earth and the tragic consequences that come from such overreaching ambition.
Review by John Bleasdale
Funeral Parade of Roses
Released in 1969 and shot in black and white, the film has the temperament and daring of an underground art film, but without any of the drawbacks.
Review by John Bleasdale
The Sacrifice
The gigantic problem with this film is just how seriously to take it and what exactly it is we’re taking seriously.
Review by John Bleasdale