Film Review

By Preston Wilder For years we all assumed that every war movie was implicitly an anti-war movie, but now it’s not so clear. Islamic State

By Preston Wilder Say hello to the year’s finest double act – a mean-spirited, self-destructive 64-year-old man and a small, very polite 11-year-old boy. Both

By Preston Wilder Philip Seymour Hoffman, in his last leading role, is Gunther Bachmann, head of a secret anti-terrorist cell in Hamburg. He’s pale and

By Preston Wilder Man is the hero of Interstellar, a serious-minded, three-hour chunk of science fiction. Not the symbolically-named Dr. Mann (played by a special

By Preston Wilder I’ve been going to the Thessaloniki Film Festival for the past 15 years. Every film buff should, I don’t know why they

By Preston Wilder   Last year was a high-water mark for French LGBT movies. Blue is the Warmest Colour (lesbian coming-of-age drama) won the Golden

By Preston Wilder It’s “sushi night”, an obvious euphemism. It’s actually the night when Tom (James Franco) and Anna (Kate Hudson) try to have a

By Preston Wilder Something is stirring in Cyprus cinemas – or perhaps I should say ‘cinema’, since the four K-Cineplexes and the Rio in Limassol

By Preston Wilder Bad behaviour is a tricky subject in films. We go to the movies to escape, live vicariously, so of course we want

By Alexia Evripidou Dark, sexual and violent, Sin City: A Dame to Die For sizzles with stomach-churning intensity but without the same shock factor as

By Preston Wilder Has there ever been a film more appropriately named? The Good Lie is good, very good indeed, if by ‘good’ we mean

By Preston Wilder And Harry Potter begat Twilight, and Twilight begat the current wave of dystopian sci-fi sparked by The Hunger Games … Adaptations of

By Preston Wilder This is an English-language paper, so we tend to concentrate on English-language films – but of course there’s a whole world of

By Preston Wilder Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) know exactly what kind of couple they are – and what kind of couple they

By Preston Wilder T.S. Spivet’s mum (Helena Bonham Carter) has her issues, including an obsession with bugs that amounts to neglect of her family, but

By Preston Wilder They had it, and they threw it all away. That’s the most frustrating thing about The Equalizer, maybe not a terrible film

By Preston Wilder If Chef were a meal, it’d be something classy-looking but essentially familiar – a tuna steak, or a filet mignon – followed

By Preston Wilder Everyone needs to see Boyhood. Any review must begin by acknowledging the once-in-a-lifetime nature of this totally unique movie. Seeing a person

By Preston Wilder Trust a critic to discuss trashy flicks based on who directed them. I liked Into the Storm [see opposite page] more than