Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, the latest film from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and joint winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes last year, will be an exercise in patience for the average cinema-goer. At 157 minutes long, ‘slow burner’ only partially conveys the way the film lingers in the moment – think Lost…
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There are basically two very dissimilar ways the connection between two lovers is depicted on the big screen. The first one includes incredibly photogenic people doing grand romantic gestures in fabulous locales and aspires to offer the audience the idealistic romance they wish they could have. The second one focuses…
This critically-acclaimed silent movie debuted at this year’s London Film Festival, and it’s been receiving rave reviews ever since. The public will get to see what all the much deserved fuss is about on December 30th, but in the meantime you can read our review here……
From a quick look at the plot – which revolves around a newly elected Pope that cannot bring himself to greet the faithful, leaving his advisors to seek help from a renowned psychoanalyst – you would be excused to think that this is nothing more than the Italian version of…
Plot: The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa serve as a backdrop for this feature documentary that looks behind-the-scenes at the complex, political machinery of a 3rd world democracy struggling to legitimize itself to its first world contemporaries. At stake in this race are the fates of two political…
Plot: Adam’s (Joseph Gordon- Levitt) life is changed when he discovers that he has a rare form of cancer with 50/50 odds of survival. Can this be the premise of a great buddy/rom-com? Seth Rogen provides the laughs as Adam’s best friend while Anna Kendrick plays the love interest. Cast: Joseph…