First off let me deal with the question that will be on both of your lips. No. This film does not actually contain any ducks. Believe me I’m crushed too. From the title alone I was expecting som...
Well, what can I say? I was gobsmacked when I put this DVD on and at first I thought I may have been given the wrong DVD. Surely I wouldn’t have been given soft-core pornography to review? It se...
When a movie crew invades a small Japanese town, local lumberjack Katsuhiko (Kôji Yakusho) and young filmmaker Koichi (Shun Oguri) form an unlikely bond. The film is very much a character piece and re...
Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing the bleak, moving French film Gervaise, by director Réne Clément. Skip forward seven days and I have sat down, black coffee in hand, to watch Oscar-winning Fo...
There isn’t much to say about Floating Weeds that hasn’t already been said. Over the decades that have passed since Yasujirō Ozu remade his own silent film, A Story of Floating Weeds, many a superlati...