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Film Festivals 2014

Frank (2014)

7/10
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender, Scoot McNairy, Domhnall Gleeson

As a cult musician permanently encased in a giant plastic head, Michael Fassbender gives an amazingly effective performance in this weirdly celebrator... Read more

The Skeleton Twins (2014)

6.8/10
Director: Craig Johnson
Starring: Luke Wilson, Joanna Gleason, Ty Burrell, Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Boyd Holbrook

After ten years of estrangement, twins Maggie and Milo coincidentally cheat death on the same day, prompting them to reunite and confront how their li... Read more

Jimmy's Hall (2014)

6.7/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Jim Norton, Andrew Scott, Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Francis Magee, Aisling Franc...

1932. Jimmy Gralton is back home in the Irish countryside after ten years of forced exile in the USA. When Jimmy reopens the village hall, thus enabli... Read more

The Green Prince (2014)

7.2/10
Director: Nadav Schirman

"A Palestinian in Ramallah, Mosab Hassan Yousef grows up angry and ready to fight Israel. Arrested for smuggling guns at the age of 17, he's interroga... Read more

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (2013)

7.1/10
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Starring: Callum Keith Rennie, Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Kyle Catlett

A glorious storybook America of open prairies, cross-country railroads and zany inventions abounds with pictorial delights in this extravaganza from J... Read more

The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

8.1/10
Director: Isao Takahata

Eight years in the making and hot on the heels of Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, Studio Ghibli co-founder Takahata's adaptation of a centuries old Japanes... Read more

Particle Fever (2013)

7.4/10
Director: Mark A Levinson

The Large Hadron Collider is a gigantic experimental apparatus, conceived in an attempt to discover the fundamental particles that make up the univers... Read more

Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)

7.8/10
Director: Mami Sunada
Starring: John Lasseter, Hideaki Anno, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, Hayao Miyazaki

This visit to Studio Ghibli proves gratifyingly akin to the pleasure of watching the films produced there. The place even looks like a Miyazaki movie,... Read more

52 Tuesdays (2013)

6.2/10
Director: Sophie Hyde
Starring: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane

16-year-old Billies reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes... Read more

Welcome to New York (2014)

5.4/10
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Jacqueline Bisset

The career-imploding misadventures of former IMF chief (and presumptive French presidential candidate) Dominique Strauss-Kahn get filtered through the... Read more