Reviews

[Review] Java Heat

It's taken director Conor Allyn five years and two movies to finally have the actioner Java Heat put him at the helm of a movie with English as its first langua...

[Review] Assault on Wall Street

Despite the appeal of rubbernecking at a car wreck, I have never seen an Uwe Boll film. Whether back when the infamous German tax break scheme was in effect on ...

[Review] Desperate Acts of Magic

Stage magicians have pulled a bit of a re-appearing act on cinema screens this year, with not one but four recent features focusing on ‘the third most mocked pr...

[Review] The Happy House

There’s something about bed and breakfasts that make me uneasy. If I’m to be honest, it’s the falseness that accompanies mannered politeness treated like commer...

[Review] The Iceman

Few actors are as naturally captivating as Michael Shannon. It’s important to remember this before he makes his big budget debut as the villain Zod in Man of St...

[Review] Caroline and Jackie

Awkward family tension gets a sublimely demented makeover in Adam Christian Clark’s Caroline and Jackie, a brooding psycho-drama that hits the ground running wh...

[Tribeca Review] Powerless

Kanpur, India is known as the Manchester of the East; an industrial town in the North, it's grappling with the realities of globalization, embodying the fundame...

[Tribeca Review] Oxyana

We never put a name to the face, as names are not required. It is brave of the residents of Oceana, West Virginia, the epicenter of OxyContin addiction to engag...