The Mauritanian Tahar Rahim

The Mauritanian – Review

What does it take to break the human spirit; our trust in the justice system; our faith in humanity? Does everyone have the right to a defence? Rooted in angry, grieving and frightened post 9/11 Amer...

Black Mirror Season 4 – Trailer

Making a welcome return is the darkly comic drama series Black Mirror. On Friday Netflix announced at the Edinburgh International TV Festival the episodic titles and cast of Black Mirror’s much...

New Releases for August

Unbelievably it is August already.  The blockbuster season which started in May is still rolling along with a number of marquee films failing to live up to their hype. In August there a number of maj...

Elysium – First Look

Back in 2009 I was blown away by a little film called District 9, which was my first experience of Writer / Director Neil Blomkamp. Today I came across the trailer for his new feature about which I h...

Carnage – Review

There is probably not another figure in cinema with the same notoriety as Polish film director Roman Polanski. From directing acclaimed films such as Rosemary’s Baby and the all-time classic Ch...