Film & TV
Small is Beautiful
It feels like we’re experiencing a golden age of indie documentary filmmaking. Thanks to crowdfunding and streaming services, we’re spoilt for choice as viewers, yet while this staggering array of voices might leave you feeling overwhelmed, the range of quality…
The Witnesses
With all the excitement and press favouring the new wave of Nordic noir that seems to run in endless supply onto our shelves, it is easy to understand how many wonderful series from other European nations get lost in the…
Nightcrawler
The first thing you notice about Lou Bloom is his face. As Nightcrawler’s anti-hero, Jake Gyllenhaal’s physical transformation is striking – gaunt and vascular, with wide, sunken eyes and an eerily toothy smile, a cross between American Psycho’s Patrick Bateman…
Advanced Style
Ari Seth Cohen started his blog, Advanced Style, when he moved to New York four years ago. Inspired by his own grandmother’s unique personal style and the impossible-to-ignore ‘gorgeous and stylish women between 60 and death’ who were using…
The Fall: Season 2
The second series of The Fall picks up 10 days after the end of series one, so if you haven’t seen that I’ll wait while you go and watch 5 hours of absorbing, glacial darkness.
A crime drama revolving around…
Charlie's Country
Charlie (David Gulpilil) lives in a small community in Arnhem Land. A sequence of events, funny yet sadly moving, drive him to eschew the community and go bush. But even he can’t survive in the bush anymore and he falls…
Fargo
Inspired by the 1996 film, this adaptation of the Coen brothers’ fan favourite does its muse proud. A wolf named Lorne Malvo has come to rural Minnesota. The sweeping strings in the opening titles let us know that good and…
Gardening with Soul
‘You like gardening – review this,’ so said the Readings DVD buyer. Yes, I do like gardening, though I’m not a keen documentary watcher. But my protests fell on deaf ears and I found myself spending a Sunday evening watching…
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel is Wes Anderson’s brilliant eighth feature film. It recounts the escapades of the marvellous Monsieur Gustave H. (Ralph Fiennes), concierge of the movie’s titular hotel in the fictitious Republic of Zubrowka (a European alpine state). For…
Borgen: Season 3
‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’ And so reads the epigraph of the final episode of Borgen. Indeed, Lincoln’s words are a fitting illustration of the political…
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