The Best View – Persepolis & Leatherheads
The Oscar-nominated animated movie Persepolis lost out to Pixar’s brilliant Ratatouille at this year’s Academy Awards yet I reckon it would have been an equally deserving winner. Released on DVD...
View ArticleAt the Cinema | No One Knows About Persian Cats – Rock the Casbah! The...
The low-key, tuneful indie music played by Iranian boy-girl duo Negar and Ashkan is so mild and well-mannered that you couldn’t imagine it rocking any foundations, let alone a government, yet in an...
View ArticleFilm review | Argo – Ben Affleck wrings laughs and suspense from a...
A terrific thriller about an audacious episode of real-life derring-do, Argo features remarkable coups behind and in front of the camera. Directed by and starring Ben Affleck, the film pulls off the...
View ArticleDVD review | Argo – Ben Affleck’s shaggy-haired CIA man pulls off an...
Fresh from triumphs at the Baftas and Oscars, director-star Ben Affleck’s terrific thriller Argo arrives on DVD and Blu-ray. As you’ll all know by now, the film tells the stranger-than-fiction true...
View ArticleRoboCop | Film review – José Padilha’s sleek but subversive remake is a...
Paul Verhoeven’s darkly comic and scarily prescient 1987 sci-fi thriller about a crime-fighting cyborg has been given a slick 21st-century Hollywood reboot by Brazilian director José Padilha, best...
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