An unsentimental tale of the seas
At 47, Director Kevin McDonald’s track record is pretty impressive: One Day in September kicked off the millennium for McDonald with an Academy Award in 2000, followed by the documentary re-enactment ...
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An identity crisis in The Grandmaster
When a new Wong Kar-wai film comes out, the art house crowd takes notice. Kar-Wai is the auteur of the stylishly shot, beautifully made, internationally-accessible Chungking Express, Happy Together an ...
Documentary of a wintery mountain fortress
In the end credits to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film, Winter Sleep, he thanks Anton Chekhov, something that his main character in the film, Mr Aydin (the superb Haluk Bilginer), might do in the book he ...
Utter immaturity in Horrible Bosses 2
On any pub pavement on a Friday night, at any dinner party or in any overheard phone conversation, you are bound to hear people moaning about their horrible bosses. Some of the stories are so patheti ...