FILM REVIEWS

A refreshed old favourite in Funny Face

A refreshed old favourite in Funny Face

Funny Face, Director Stanley Donen’s delightful musical romcom from 1957, is not as dated as it may seem at first glance. The costumes by Edith Head and Givenchy might not be today’s fashion, but they ...
A cinematic rarity in We Are What We Are

A cinematic rarity in We Are What We Are

Here is a cinema rarity: an American remake that surpasses the foreign language original. In my review of Mexican Director’s Jorge Michel Grau’s Somos Lo Que Hay (We are What We Are) I wrote that the ...
A fantastic Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven

A fantastic Japanese adaptation of Unforgiven

You have to hand it to Yurusarezarumono’s (Unforgiven) Japanese producers and Korean Writer/Director Lee Sang-il, best known for Hula Girls, based on a true story of a group of girls who take up hula ...