19th November 2017 “Right down where we hurt the most is where the medicine is at.” This line of rehabilitative philosophy, heard around two-thirds of the way through Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous’ ultra-intensive documentary, is a fitting summation… Continue Reading
8th October 2016 After Sheldon Renan and Leonard Schrader’s lurid anthology of the United States’ history of violent crime premiered in New York City in 1982, their film subsequently failed to receive a commercial release; thus ‘The Killing of America’… Continue Reading
28th August 2016 After the defeat of the British army in Northern France and their subsequent retreats from the beaches of Normandy in 1940, it would be another four years before Britain – this time with her US allies in… Continue Reading
25th August 2015 Though perhaps best known for her directing of 1992 box office smash ‘Wayne’s World’, and it’s less commercially successful sequel, Penelope Spheeris true legacy as a filmmaker is her 1981 documentary ‘The Decline of Western Civilization’… Continue Reading
Award-winning director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters) has turned his hand to biography in his latest film ‘Life Itself’, a powerful and touching portrait of late American film critic Roger Ebert. To celebrate the film’s DVD release on 23rd… Continue Reading