WOW FILM FESTIVAL: AMBULANCE | FILM REVIEW
***** Ambulance The first film of Sunday’s edition of WOW Film Festival at Chapter this year was certainly not the easiest film to digest early on a Sunday morning. To …
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***** Ambulance The first film of Sunday’s edition of WOW Film Festival at Chapter this year was certainly not the easiest film to digest early on a Sunday morning. To …
RUBBER Canal+ (available on Amazon Prime) Robert is a murderous car tyre. With aesthetically pleasing Hannibal-like camera shots, and satirically funny character lines, this movie looks like it should be …
Ever since witnessing The Devil’s Backbone (2001) many years ago, it has become a very personal favourite of mine. Not only because of its outstanding direction, beautiful cinematography and genuine …
Of all the films seen so far at this year’s WOW film festival, Mohamed Diab’s Clash is far and above the best I’ve seen. More than that, the director’s thrilling, …
Drawing the second night of WOW to a close, Wùlu is easily the most conventional film of the festival so far. Hailing from West Africa, it is a piece of …
Released in 2010, this year WOW film festival has giving its audience an opportunity to see The Colors of The Mountain, a little known drama from Colombia, on the big …
Getting the second day of the 2017 WOW film festival off to a flying start, Min Bahadur Bam’s The Black Hen is a charming tale of friendship, family and hens …
Closing the opening night of WOW 2017, Pablo Larraín’s fantastical biopic of Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, is a strange little cinematic oddity that I couldn’t help but fall in love …
Kicking things off at this year’s WOW film festival, The War Show is quite easily one of the most powerful and deeply affecting films of 2017 so far. If you …
[wpdevart_youtube]PX-fNZsCWrY[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Twenty years ago, a coachload of cocksure, naïve and heroically pissed-up Glaswegian musicians and associated “bawbags” travelled to the small town of Mauron in Brittany, invited to play …
[wpdevart_youtube]dSqMpkGOW9g[/wpdevart_youtube] *** Dir: Olivier Assayas (15, 105 mins) An unconventional ghost story that examines spiritual crisis, Assayas’ film reunites him with emo-queen Kristen Stewart after the excellent Clouds of Sils …
**** Dir: Bill Condon (PG, 123 mins) After the box office bonanzas that greeted its live action remakes of Cinderella and The Jungle Book, Disney continues to plunder its back catalogue …
[wpdevart_youtube]YAbI4w95cTE[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Jordan Vogt-Roberts (12A, 120 mins) King Kong is the granddaddy of all monster movies. The 1933 black and white original with the giant gorilla on top of the …
[wpdevart_youtube]IEnhx82_In4[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Paul Verhoeven (18, 130 mins) Provocative and disturbing, the director of tabloid baiting hits Basic Instinct and Showgirls, giddying violent adventures Starship Troopers and Total Recall returns with his most …
From Pembrokeshire to Snowdonia, Nathan Roach highlights some of Wales’ top filming locations to visit this year. Dunraven Bay Known as Southerndown beach to the locals, this beach is known …
[wpdevart_youtube]QjZbnOumKKU[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Warren Beatty (12A, 127 mins) An indulgent mess of a film, that still mostly entertains but remains unsatisfying and is all the more disappointing as this may …
[wpdevart_youtube]R378kcWxPLk[/wpdevart_youtube] Wales’ triumphant performance in the Euros last year feels like a distant dream, and we still almost can’t believe it. If you want to relive their historic victory, this film …
[wpdevart_youtube]DekuSxJgpbY[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: James Mangold (15, 120 mins) Hugh Jackman’s last hurrah as the adamantium clawed Wolverine marks a change in tone from his previous outings. More in the vein …
[wpdevart_youtube]3rEUGgvVKV4[/wpdevart_youtube] *** Dir: Richie Keen (15, 91 mins) Very slim premise for a comedy. One teacher challenges another teacher to a fight after school. Ice Cube vs Charlie Day. Obviously …
[wpdevart_youtube]JF1rLFCdewU[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Gore Verbinski (15, 156 mins) Aiming to provoke a fear of all relaxing spa breaks, Gore Verbinski’s return to the horror genre after The Ring remakes promises much. …
*** Dir: John Madden (15, 132 mins) A hard-bitten lobbyist, known for taking no prisoners, takes on her most powerful opponent, the gun lobby, in this timely, wordy, and worthy …
*** Dir: Zhang Yimou (12A, 106 mins) The Great Wall of China, an iconic structure commonly believed to be visible from space, and in this ludicrous but enjoyable fantasy from …
**** Dir: Theodore Melfi (12A, 127 mins) The untold true story of the black women behind NASA’s race into space is stirringly told in this excellent drama, anchored in its …
*** Dir: Chad Stahelski (15, 90 mins) After the surprise success of John Wick, a testosterone boost to the creaky B-movie action genre Liam Neeson seemed to dominate for years, …