my film journal

Tokyo Fiancée is a fun romantic cross-cultural charmer adapted from the autobiographical novel by Amélie Nothomb and based on her own pe...

A Girl at My Door , the remarkable first feature film from Korean director July Jung is a brave and sharply observed drama about the ugly...

This delightful, uplifting, life affirming, British crowd-pleaser is the most fun you’ll have at the cinema this year.  PRIDE is the ...

Aire Libre is a raw honest depiction of a marriage between a middle class Argentine couple, Lucia and Manuel, trying to build a life tog...

Young & Beautiful (2013), a provocative new French film by director François Ozon, Swimming Pool (2003) and Potiche (2010), that...

The sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), a reboot of the phenomenally successful Planet of the Apes saga (1968 - 1973) th...

Yes it’s true, Guardians of the Galaxy , the new film franchise based on the Marvel comic series of the same name, is as cool as it sound...

According to Webster’s, the word nostalgia comes from the Greek words nostos , meaning return home, and algos , meaning pain or grief. Fo...

Satyajit Ray is to India what Akira Kurosawa is to Japan or Vittorio De Sica to Italy. His films are so poetically evocative and stunni...

Earth is being overrun by an aggressive alien force that has traveled light years across the galaxy to find a habitable planet. In th...

Following the trend of live action re-imaginings of Disney’s classic fairy tales such as Tim Burton’s version of Alice in Wonderland (20...

In the small harbor village of Tickle Head, Newfoundland, the plight of a proud dwindling fishing community, who have long ago lost their...

Independent avant-garde film maker Jim Jarmusch has created an unusually intoxicating film experience that’s a philosophical meditation a...

The new Godzilla movie takes the iconic amphibious monster hero back to its Japanese roots, rising up from the depths just when hum...

Somewhere in the jungles of South America, in a squalid tropical slum for migrants who risk their lives working on a dangerous nearby o...