Jacques Audiard’s latest totally stunning thriller is steeped in violence which seems to be his raison d’être these days. This one starts off briefly in Sri Lanka where Deephan (Jesuthasan Antonythasan) a Tamil freedom fighter is trying to flee the country after the latest battle in the civil war has ended in a massacre. He’s been given … Continue reading
John Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get his own way. The fact that he was also a deeply disturbed closeted homosexual is also very obvious in this new chilling true crime drama based on his … Continue reading
Award-winning Russian director Andrey Zvagaintsev’s new epic movie opens to the dramatic tones of a Phillip Glass prelude as the camera scans over the desolate sight of a remote small fishing community that looks like it may have seen better times. It is on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and its almost deserted coastline … Continue reading
When the Hollywood limo driver asks his mysterious disfigured young passenger where she has come from she answers ‘Jupiter’ meaning the small town in Florida. It could however easily been the planet though as the girl is obviously extremely odd, and this is a David Cronenberg movie after all. Agatha is back in California … Continue reading
When Diana ‘Die’ Despres reacts quite violently after she crashes her car on the way to collect Steve her troubled teenage son from the special care facility after he set fire to the cafeteria, it is initially not clear who is the craziest one out of the pair of them. However, life with Steve will … Continue reading