How To Survive A Plague (2012)
★★★★☆
Exposing the front lines of the AIDS epidemic on the streets of New York, David France’s How To Survive A Plague is a moving testament to people power.
★★★★☆
Exposing the front lines of the AIDS epidemic on the streets of New York, David France’s How To Survive A Plague is a moving testament to people power.
★★★★☆
A documentary shot at the Cannes Film Festival in 2012, James Toback’s Seduced And Abandoned explores the unique aura of the festival itself, cinema art, money, glamour and death.
★★★☆☆
The making of a legend, Joey Figueroa and Zak Knutson’s bio-documentary Milius uncovers the gun-toting storyteller and filmmaker that took Hollywood on and lost.
★★★☆☆
As the worlds of an Irish catholic and an atheist ex-politican collide, Stephen Frears’ Philomena sees a simple faith go head to head with Catholic conspiracy.
★★★☆☆
Taken hostage by Somali pirates, Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips is a taut cat-and-mouse thriller putting a face to human bravery and a very American gun show.
★★★★★
Love and the circle of life are put to the test in Felix Van Groeningen’s heartbreaking The Broken Circle Breakdown. But will the circle be unbroken?
★★★★☆
A moving portrait of a model on the make and an actress facing her demons, Liz Garbus’s Love, Marilyn brings the Hollywood icon back to life.
★★★☆☆
A divorced woman who is the parent of a teenage daughter disovers that the man she’s just started a relationship with is the ex-husband of her new female friend.
★★★★☆
Love, life and languor in the City of Lights, Roger Michell’s Le Week-End sees a couple renegotiating their marriage and giving it the ooh-la-la.
★★☆☆☆
Following snowboarder Kevin Pearce’s life after traumatic brain injury, Lucy Walker’s documentary The Crash Reel sees a rising star come crashing down to earth.
★★★★☆
Love in a dark time, Malgorzata Szumowska’s In The Name Of evokes the desolation of a gay man in conflict with God with summertime brilliance.
★★★☆☆
A portrait of the great thinker in troubled times, Margarethe von Trotta’s Hannah Arendt is more than a woman.
★★★☆☆
As two lovers meet and start an intense, doomed sexual relationship, Kieran Evans’ Kelly + Victor offers a charged portrait of two worlds colliding.
★★★☆☆
Exposing Seventies homophobia against gay parents and with a great performance from Alan Cummings, Travis Fine’s Any Day Now is a very modern tearjerker.