This month's VideoVista is now up, with my review of Fritz Lang twisty-turny thriller Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (see here) and French historical drama La veuve de Saint-Pierre (review here).

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This month's issue of VideoVista is now up, containing my reviews of quota quickie They Met In The Dark (review here), teenage Petula Clark star vehicle Don't Ever Leave Me (review here) and the excellent wuxia western The Warrior's Way (review here).

(Cross-posted from It Doesn't Have To Be Right...)

April's VideoVista is now up, containing my reviews of turgid fantasy reworking of Moby Dick, Age of the Dragons (review here), clumsy dream-world thriller Ink (review here), and Irish people smuggling drama Trafficked (review here).

(Cross-posted from It Doesn't Have To Be Right...)

This month's VideoVista is now up, with my reviews of excellent Israeli thriller Ajami
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My reviews of Abbas Kiarostami's intruiging Certified Copy
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This month's Videovista is now up, containing my reviews of Amy Johnson biopic They Flew Alone
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So I managed to get hold of a copy of Bertrand Tavernier's adaptation - La mort en direct
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November's VideoVista is now up, with my reviews of fun Russian flying-car fantasy Black Lightning
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... are now up on Videovista.net. Including my review of 1940s noir-ish potboiler The Big Clock
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I am, I admit, not much of a fan of science fiction films. Too many of them privilege visual spectacle over story, or characterisation, or rigour, or plot logic, or even anything approaching an intelligent take on their subject. So it's more by accident than design that I find I've watched all but one of the films on this year's Hugo Award for Best ( Read more... )