Articles by Alan Bacchus
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close [Blu-Ray]
Stephen Daldry
PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016
Stephen Daldry's (The Reader, The Hours) latest slice of grief-stricken melodrama (based upon the Jonathan Safran Foer novel of a young boy...
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2014
Having already wowed audiences at Sundance and Cannes, Whiplash presumably finishes its festival run here at TIFF, achieving the rare trebl...
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2014
Damien Chazelle's electrifying jazz-drumming picture is a dynamo of cinematic entertainment and a rip-roaring musical thrill ride. Andrew N...
Here Comes the Devil
Adrián García Bogliano
PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2014
Part parental revenge film, part ghost story and part Rosemary's Baby, this scattershot Mexican low-budget genre film with a title far more...
Cutie and the Boxer
Zachary Heinzerling
PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2014
The 'Boxer' and the 'Cutie' of this story are Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, Japanese ex-pat artists living in New York personifying the conce...
The Selfish Giant
Clio Barnard
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2014
Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur, Shane Meadows' This is England and Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank have, of late, carried on the tradition of the...
Raise the Titanic [Blu-Ray]
Jerry Jameson
PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2014
Notable at the time for being an expensive flop, this audacious story of a covert CIA operation to quite literally raise the H.M.S. Titanic...
The Duellists
Ridley Scott
PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2013
Little seen and infrequently discussed, it's easy to forget Ridley Scott made this humble period film, based on Joseph Conrad's short story...
