By Gordon Foote. Kurdish director Umut Dag’s first full length film, Kuma, tells the story of a young, village girl who is recruited as a second wife (a Kuma), leaving her past existence behind and relocating to Austria. I’ve wrestled with how best to review this Turkish/Austrian effort, simply because much of
So you like huge muscle cars with ginormous engines. You're bored of car show circuit, you've used the vouchers to drive a Porsche round a track for a day. What do you do to get your next fix of sweet later motor oil? You make a film of course. Which
Confine is probably the most appropriate title to describe recent release from director Tobias Tobbell; a simple yet effective crime thriller set entirely in the London apartment of housebound victim Pippa, played by model turned actress Daisy Lowe. As a fitting summary, Confine successfully places the viewer into the uneasy and
I first saw Melissa McCarthy back in 2000 while watching my favorite TV show at the time, "Gilmore Girls." She played Sookie St. James, the quirky, adorable chef in a small town who always wore pigtails and was never afraid to boss people around. Then I saw her in "Samantha
Anyone who has ever been stuck in a lift will most probably tell you that it's not a particularly pleasant experience. Add an ominous stranger into the mix, and things could certainly have the potential to become something of a worst nightmare. For those of you who are of a
