Film Festivals 2015
While We're Young (2015)
6.3/10
Director: Noah Baumbach
Starring: Naomi Watts, Ben Stiller, Maria Dizzia, Adam Horovitz
Noah Boaumbach's comedy While We're Young stars Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts as Josh and Cornelia, a childless New York married couple in their mid-for... Read more
99 Homes (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.1/10
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield
Behind on his mortgage, Orlando construction worker Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is up against it after he, his young son (Noah Lomax), and his mom (... Read more
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
7/10
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg
The deeply eccentric Roy Anderssons meticulously mounted comic sketches move from historic fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as he muses on human... Read more
Phoenix (Blu-ray) (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Phoenix (2014)
7.3/10
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
This evocative and haunting drama, set in rubble-strewn Berlin in 1945, is like no other film about postWorld War II Jewish-German identity. After su... Read more
Saint Laurent (2014)
6.1/10
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Dominique Sanda, Gaspard Ulliel, Lea Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Amira Casar
The second lavish film biography of Yves Saint Laurent in a single year, this 'unauthorised' version is the more sensuous affair, less concerned wit... Read more
99 Homes (2014)
7.1/10
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Starring: Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, Andrew Garfield
Ramin Bahranis visceral drama of real estate agency run amok is keenly honed to make your blood boil. Michael Shannon is magnetic as Rick Carver, a r... Read more
Far From Men (2014)
7.2/10
Director: David Oelhoffen
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Reda Kateb, Angela Molina, Vincent Martin, Djemel Barak
Featuring a fine performance from Viggo Mortensen and an original soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Far from Men is a tense tale of honour and... Read more
Mommy (2014)
8.1/10
Director: Xavier Dolan
Starring: Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilan, Suzanne Clement, Patrick Huard
French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan was 25 when he delivered his fifth feature to Cannes in 2014. What's truly precocious is the power of the exub... Read more
Girlhood (2014)
6.9/10
Director: Celine Sciamma
Starring: Marietou Toure, Karidja Toure, Lindsay Karam, Assa Sylla
Bursting onto the screen in a blast of buzzing power pop, Girlhood from Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) is marked from the outset by its energet... Read more