There is something mythical about the American blue-collar town where Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace is set. The hardworking and racially harmonious population are
Category: Film review
Film review – All Is Lost (2013)
Grappling with personal demons while trying to stay alive in a hostile environment can make gripping cinema as Gravity demonstrated. If you relocate the action
Film review – Gravity (2013)
In his 1986 article ‘The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde’ Tom Gunning looks at the power of early cinema to
Film review – Stories We Tell (2012)
Filmmaker and actor Sarah Polley is used to being filmed, but her family are not. Polley’s latest film as director is a documentary about her
Film review – Oh Boy (2012)
Is the quest for a cup of coffee the perfect encapsulation of the growing meaninglessness or superficiality of modern life? Without reductively branding this pursuit
Film review – Blue Jasmine (2013)
For almost 50 years Woody Allen has been making films that explore the existential despair that there is no greater meaning to life beyond immediate
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