The Academy Awards at 93
This year, as every year, The Academy Awards confirm the saying, “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the ...
FILM REVIEWS
FILMS TO WATCH AT HOME – Robert Tanitch reviews 5 films
THE MAURITANIAN (STXfilms) is a legal thriller directed by Kevin Macdonald which describes what went on in Gutanemo Bay in Cuba. Mohamedou Ould Slahi (played by Tamar Rahim) is imprisoned and tortured ...
Bruce Dern and the wonderful Lena Olin grapple with family, fame, art and Alzheimer’s
The Artist’s Wife (from April 30, on digital flatforms). Cert TBC, 96 mins. It is a terrible irony that, dementia, the cruellest disease inflicted on older people, has spawned a sub-genre in cinema an ...
A promising thriller about a film actress-turned- writer loses the plot.
Black Bear (April 30, 2021) Available on BFI i-Player, and other UK and Irish digital platforms. Cert 15, 104 mins. In Tahir Shah’s In Search of King Solomon’s Mines, a Western explorer receives his E ...