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Angel

Angel

(3 stars)4 Sep 2008

After years of gleeful, near bi-polar genre shifting, France’s greatest living film parodist, Francois Ozon (5x2, 8 Women, Sitcom), makes the film that every gay teenager, who has grown up in the latter part of the 20th century, would kill to…

The Banishment

The Banishment

(3 stars)4 Sep 2008

Fledgling master Russian filmmaker Andrei The Return Zvyagintsev’s flawed second feature is a nonetheless interesting fusion of British gangster flick Sexy Beast, Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and (thematically at least) Scenes from a Marriage as created by…

Parklife - Brand new dance

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

(1 star)4 Sep 2008

Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the nine-year-old son of a Nazi Commandant (David Thewlis). When his father is seconded to manage a concentration camp in a remote area of the Fascist empire, the lonely Bruno makes a new friend, Schmuel (Jack Scanlon), beyond…

W.

W.

Oedipus Tex

4 Sep 2008

Paul Dale welcomes Josh Brolin’s first lead role and Oliver Stone’s Presidential biopic W. with glee

Another Kind of Silence

Another Kind of Silence

Enviromentalist writer brought to compelling life

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

If the environmental movement in the US has a progenitor and figurehead it is marine biologist and nature writer Rachel Carson. Her writing and research in the late 1950s/early 1960s brought attention to the then unfashionable issue of conservation…

Chad McCail

Chad McCail

Puberty, print, perversion and compulsory education

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

What a remarkable and strange artist Chad McCail is. By his own admission half of his output tends to be peopled by ‘robots, zombies or wealthy parasites’, while the other half looks like loose leaves from a particularly perverse Ladybird book. Both…

Five festival nudes - Foreskins Lament

Foreskins Lament

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

This dodgy production of New Zealand playwright Greg McGee's landmark 1980 play is played out in the locker room of a local rugby club changing room. A couple of really appalling performances and some less than inspired direction derail things. Still at…

New World Order

New World Order

Neo-conspiracy crimes, Shakespearean-style

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

Fringe acclaimed over the last two years for Love Labours Won, West Yorkshire writer, director and performer Ryan JW Smith returns with a much more bitter pill. Smith loves Shakespeare. His is the cut'n'paste approach to the bard; his conceit here is…

Gimme Shelter

Gimme Shelter

(4 stars)14 Aug 2008

DOCUMENTARY (E) 91min (Warner Home Video DVD retail) The second Maysles brothers documentary to be given a new lease of life on DVD in so many months, Gimme Shelter is by far their most contentious film, and arguably the most tragic film ever made…

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

(2 stars)14 Aug 2008

FARCE/ROMANCE (PG) 91min Opinionated, unemployable London governess Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) has just lost another job. Dumped by her agency and homeless Miss Pettigrew manages to worm her way in to the house of American wannabe starlet…

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