A culture clash for Honour
Honour is a British film about the topical issue of honour killings that take place – at the rate of 12 a year – right here in the UK and at the rate of 5,000 worldwide. The directorial debut of scri ...
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Should the past be kept as just that?
After winning 70 major awards, including an Academy Award (Best Foreign Film), for his last film, A Separation, Writer/Director Asghar Farhadi is no longer just the most celebrated Iranian filmmaker a ...
Two is better than one
Richard Ayoade gained a cult following with his 2011 debut feature, Submarine, a quirky, coming-of-age film, the humour of which arose from the discrepancy between the precocious unreliable narrator’s ...
Joyce Glasser meets John Banville, author of The Sea
On the occasion of the release, on 18th April, of the film The Sea, based on Irish writer John Banville’s 14th (Man Booker Prize winning) novel of the same title, our film critic, Joyce Glasser, inte ...