Cannes 2011
The Skin I Live In Review [Cannes]
There was something about this film that filled me with great excitement. I’m not sure what it was, perhaps the main marketing shot that shows someone in a face mask, reminiscent of Patrick Bateman in American Psycho or David...
The Tree Of Life Takes The Top Prize At Cannes
Well it was bound to happen, after two years of trying to get Terrence Malick's epic The Tree of Life into the Cannes Film Festival it was unlikely that the film would not receive the top recognition. So it's official the film ...
Drive Review [Cannes]
Drive is film based on a book by James Sallis. It follows a part time stunt driver, part time mechanic who in his spare time also moonlights as getaway man for hire. His name is simply Driver and he is played by Ryan Gosling. T...
Melancholia Review [Cannes]
Despite a lot of the hype surrounding this film, apart from the trailer I had read or seen very little relating to it. On the face of it I was expecting an Armageddon type film with perhaps a small amount of supernatural elemen...
The Artist Review [Cannes]
Walking into the Grand Théâtre Lumière at 08:30 in the morning, still pining for the softness of my pillow, one could have been forgiving that a black and white silent film was going to be a bit of a bore fest. But believe ...
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Review [Cannes]
Before I start my review, I would like to state that I have never really been a massive fan of the Pirates franchise. Yes many people would say that I am simply being disagreeable, and wanting to be awkward. But this is uninten...
Restless Review [Cannes]
In Restless we are introduced to Enoch Brae (Henry Hopper), an adolescent male who seems to be obsessed with death. Maybe of little surprise when we learn that both of his parents were killed in a car crash; an event in which h...
Midnight In Paris Review [Cannes]
At the second attempt, I was finally strolling in to the second screening of the Woody Allen film that had a few hours earlier, been the opening film on the Cannes Film Festival 2011. It was with a certain amount of trepidation...
