Lee Tamahori’s piece of fictionalised biography is a fascinating insight
into the son of Saddam Hussein, Uday, and his body double, Latif Yahia. While
Danny Boyle was originally considered as director, Tamahori do…Read More...
Debut feature from emerging Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor Castillo,
Thursday Till Sunday (De jueves a domingo) is a moving portrait of a crumbling
family as they take a road trip from the urban Santiago to the…Read More...
In 1983, beer magnate Freddy Heineken was abducted in daring fashion outside his
office in Amsterdam and held against his will for 21 days while one of the most
high profile searches ever conducted by the Dutch police took…Read More...
The documentary film has something of an uncomfortable relationship with
‘reality’. Rather than being absolutely distinct from fiction film, both
types of film have tendencies towards verisimilitude; the ap…Read More...
Thanks to Amsterdam-based production company Snoooep, Bobby Boermans has put an
entire foot forward into the future of cinema. Opting to discharge his
feature-length directorial debut Claustrofobia as an online fr…Read More...
Wavumba was screened at the 26th Leeds International Film Festival, which was
staged between 8th and 22nd November 2012. After scooping the Best New
Documentary Director award at Tribeca, Jeroen van Velzen can b…Read More...
2012 could well be remembered as the year of the personal documentary. Earlier
this year, both Nostalgia For The Light and The Ambassador proved as excellent
examples of how a documentary where the filmmaker is the star…Read More...
As Holland’s first export of this ‘zomedy’ genre, Kill Zombie! plays it
safe by satisfying an unpretentious and lightweight palate. With an expected
oversubscription to airborne limbs and vaguely creative killin…Read More...
Alison Carroll was an English gymnast and model before she hit the big time in
2008 when she was announced as the new Lara Croft model for the video game Tomb
Raider: Underworld. Replacing Karima Adebibe, Carroll held the…Read More...
Baltasar Kormakur, best known as the director of successful indie comedy 101
Reykjavik (2000) and rather excellent crime drama Jar City (2006), puts his
acting cap on to star in this frantic crime thriller. The fi…Read More...
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