my film journal

Or The Life of Ad è le: chapters 1 and 2 , as it is known in France, the Cannes Film Festival Palm D’Or winner is an intimate and intense...

More a tragic love story than a western, this film resembles a Brazilian version of Scarface (1983). It’s a surprisingly ambitious and m...

A splendid Danish drama directed by Nikolaj Arcel, A Royal Affair (2012) is set in the 18 th century and is based on the true story of...

You can’t help but fall in love with Wadjda, the adorable savvy little 10 year old, sneaker wearing rebel, who won’t take no for an answe...

Being shipwrecked in space is every astronaut’s nightmare, and watching Gravity on an IMAX screen gives one as close a sense of being ad...

This powerful Danish drama stars Mads Mikkelsen ( A Royal Affair ) as Lucas, a divorced father, who becomes the target of a close-knit co...

When two children go missing on the outskirts of a suburban community, a mysterious RV camper parked on the street is immediately suspect...

It’s not surprising that in the shantytowns outside Johannesburg, most cops have gone corrupt. Soweto is a land of lawlessness, where eve...

How do you make a family drama into a psychological thriller and make it work? Well, Dutch director Menno Meyjes has done it. This is a...

In this genuine moving film we follow new mother Erika (Alicia Vikander), who also appeared in A Royal Affair (2012), as she goes throug...

The riveting passionate films of Fatih Akin, the German-Turkish director of such powerful cinematic works as Head-On (2003), Crossing ...

Inspired by the real life story of Eugene Allen, who worked at the White House as a butler for 34 years during eight presidencies, The Bu...

In the year 2154 overpopulation and pollution have ravaged the earth and rendered it virtually uninhabitable, making it necessary to buil...

An Egyptian traveling ceremonial police band, scheduled to play at an Arab cultural center in Israel, take a bus into a small sleepy de...

Wine, olives, fish and olive oil, Adriatico My Love is a charming romantic culinary comedy and sentimental journey back to a quaint Med...

No, this is not a new Transformers sequel. But it does feature loud titanic smackdowns, in the kaiju tradition, between mammoth ...