Stanley Kubrick’s film of Barry Lyndon adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel will be rereleased on Friday 29 July. Despite having a running time of 184 minutes it is: engaging, witty and contains a message of greed and self destruction that wonderfully demonstrates that human nature has not changed over
By Jay Connors. Whenever a beloved movie franchise is rumoured or confirmed to be in the process of remake or reboot, there's always a mist of controversy and outrage. Whether it's modern Asian cinema given a localisation like 'Infernal Affairs' (remade as 'The Departed') and 'Oldboy', or essential parts of growing
Ming of Harlem, Phillip Warnell’s debut feature documentary is the story of a Bengal tiger, raised by Antoine Yates in a 21st floor apartment. The story itself could take 5 minutes to tell but Warnell knows that the audience needs to be immersed, as much as is possible, in the surroundings:
Between Tunisia and Sicily, the Italian volcanic island of Pantelleria is the setting of A BIGGER SPLASH: A house, four people and a load of emotional conflict. Pantelleria is a 15km long former penal colony with sulfuric mud baths, beautiful rock pools, Giorgio Armani’s holiday house and thousands of stranded
Covering the three titular killings of Tony Blair’s career, filmmakers Sanne van den Bergh, Daniel Turi and Greg Ward explore the fall of Old Labour, the abhorrent decision to lead the UK to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, which saw the death of countless thousands and the financial killing made