Film Review

By Preston Wilder For a guy who sold gadgets, Steve Jobs has been getting a lot of screen time (big screen, not computer screen) since...

By Preston Wilder Let’s be clear: Point Break isn’t much of a remake of Point Break, the 1991 action flick that became, unexpectedly, a cult...

By Preston Wilder Cate Blanchett’s face is a clear pool of water, with emotions rippling across it. There’s something limpid about Blanchett in Carol, and...

By Preston Wilder Is it a man’s world? Not exactly, for all the talk of gender imbalance; not in real life, not in movies either....

10,000 KM **** DIRECTED BY Carlos Marques-Marcet STARRING Natalia Tena, David Verdaguer Spain 2014                     99 mins. In Spanish, with Greek subtitles.   THE TRIBE **...

By Preston Wilder The Cold War is literally cold for New York lawyer Jim Donovan (Tom Hanks). Walking through a wintry East Berlin on his...

By Preston Wilder There’s a bit towards the end of Tale of Tales, Matteo Garrone’s lavish mediaeval fantasy, that spells out a possible m.o. behind...

Preston Wilder from the Thessaloniki Film Festival   “Greenaway,” said the girl. “You what?” said her boyfriend – or it may have been “Go on”,...

By Preston Wilder The problem with Black Mass is knowing how seriously to take it. Almost the first thing we see is a thug named...

By Preston Wilder Obviously, this is not a review. I wrote the script for The Magic Beans, and have spent most of the past two...

By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for unhappy families at the cinema. No Escape tells of the Dwyers, caught up in an Asian revolution...

By Preston Wilder   30 years ago, Sylvester Stallone went to Vietnam in Rambo: First Blood Part II and killed lots of faceless, evil Asians....

By Alexia Evripidou Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) is a genius and highly temperamental super chef around whom Burnt centres. After two years free of alcohol,...

By Alexia Evripidou Pan, simply put, is a wonderfully old fashioned fantasy adventure for the whole family to enjoy. A cinematic experience that transports you...

By Alexia Evripidou Crimson Peak is an intense, claustrophobic and seriously atmospheric horror film that is definitely worth watching, once. This latest addition to Guillermo...

By Preston Wilder It’s a good week for feeling nauseous at the cinema – but all the shots of machete-chopped limbs and cooked human meat...