12 Years a Slave Special Presentation Director: Steve McQueen A mere capsule review at festival time could never do justice to McQueen’s powerful masterwork that’s not so much an excellent piece of filmmaking, but a landmark cinematic achievement. While no one left alive today could possibly ever be able to relay the atrocities of America’s […]
In this month's round-up of the best in home entertainment we look at wartime classic The Great Escape , the little known Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers team-up Crimewave , the criminally underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand , Jackie Chan's Police Story films, the cult favourite Repo Man , Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia , and Godard's Band of Outsiders .
This week, action and misery seem to be the themes as takes on Shame and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , while Noah Taylor looks at The Divide , and Phil Brown watches Contraband
