Director – Steven Soderbergh – 2025 – US, UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ** Two siblings hire a young art restorer to forge some of their famous artist father’s unfinished paintings before he dies so they can collect on their posthumous sale – out exclusively on digital platforms from Monday, 20th July Professional art restorer Lori Butler (Michaela […]
Director – Homayoun Ghanizadeh – 2025 – Iran, USA, France, Canada – 107m ***** On a video phone network, a woman is caught between her well-off family and their former servant’s wronged son – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Facing us, photographed in black and white, […]
Pelikan Blue (Kék Pelikan) Director – László Csáki – 2023 – Hungary – Cert. none – 79m **** How three friends wanting to travel to the West after Hungary opened up in 1985 stumbled onto a lucrative scam forging rail tickets – innovative documentary employing animation premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th […]
DVD review originally published in Starlog, UK edition. TO CATCH A THIEF ANIME OF THE MONTH THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO (REG 2 DVD: ENGLISH / JAPANESE DUBBED, OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES) £19.99, Widescreen (1.85:1), Dolby Digital 2.0 (Manga) One of Manga Video’s best kept secrets arrives on UK DVD. Arsene Lupin III is manga artist Monkey […]