Islands
Sam Riley and Stacy Martin share dark secrets and smouldering sexual tension in Jan-Ole Gerster’s slow-moving but stylish psychological thriller ‘Islands’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 17, 2025 | Featured, Berlin 2025, Festivals |
Sam Riley and Stacy Martin share dark secrets and smouldering sexual tension in Jan-Ole Gerster’s slow-moving but stylish psychological thriller ‘Islands’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 16, 2025 | Festivals, Berlin 2025, Featured |
Multiple Robert Pattinsons share a risky deep-space mission in ‘Parasite’ director Bong Joon-ho’s visually dazzling but muddled dystopian sci-fi comedy thriller ‘Mickey 17’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 15, 2025 | Berlin 2025, Featured, Festivals |
Director Ido Fluk’s playful period biopic ‘Köln 75’ celebrates the remarkable true story of the teenage German girl who made a landmark jazz concert happen against impossible odds.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 13, 2025 | Berlin 2025, Featured, Festivals |
German writer-director Tom Tykwer returns to the big screen with ‘The Light’, a stylish and ambitious but ultimately shallow family psychodrama set in contemporary Berlin.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 8, 2025 | The Festival Verdict, Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
The 54th edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam served up a cosmopolitan banquet of punky Balkan bio-drama and chilly Baltic brooding, arty African essay-films and mind-bending Mexican animation.
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