my film journal

Part Boyhood (2014) and part Full Metal Jacket (1987), this extraordinary coming-of-age documentary follows a boy’s harrowing journey t...

Watching Nightcrawler , as disturbing as it is, is like watch a slow motion car crash; you can’t take your eyes off it. In that sense the...

A surreal hallucinogenic riff on mid-life crisis, lost youth and a desperate attempt to regain relevance in an ever trending world, Birdm...

With Remembrance Day approaching, Fury reminds us of the sacrifices that were made by so many young men and women during W.W. II. We ...

The Hundred- Foot Journey is a feast for the eyes and heart. Film making has so much in common with great cooking and Swedish director La...

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...