Browsing: Andrea Riseborough

Film & TV Oblivion (2013)
Film Review: Oblivion

Joseph Kosinki’s sci-fi pretender Oblivion arrives at our cinemas with an unmistakably bulky baggage. It piles up an excessive weight of borrowing, conscious or unintentional, bearing the absolute misfortune of being compared to a live-action version of Pixar’s dystopian romantic sci-fi WALL-E, featuring a protagonist, operating as a mechanic/repairman, roams a desecrated post-apocalyptic Earth where humans have buggered off to a different planet somewhere (this time, one of Jupiter’s moons Titan, of all places).

Film & TV Shadow Dancer
Film Review: Shadow Dancer

British director James Marsh returns to fictional filmmaking (of sorts) with Shadow Dancer, having previously moved with the documentaries Man on Wire (2008) – for which he received an Academy Award – and the sublime Project Nim (2011). Utilising the tried-and-tested docudrama approach, Marsh’s latest is a thriller of uncommon beauty, intellect and most of all, profound respect for its audience.