Dave Calhoun Articles

Michael Fassbender, Shame Steve McQueen-Michael Fassbender's SHAME: Sex Addiction at the Movies Directed by Steve McQueen (no relation to the star of Bullitt and The Getaway), and written by McQueen and playwright Abi Morgan, Shame was screened at the Venice and Telluride film festivals. Its next stop is the Toronto Film Festival later this month. McQueen's drama revolves around the dangers of sex addiction and [...]

  Dave Calhoun in Time Out London, via David Hudson's The Daily: "For quite some time at the beginning of Michael Haneke's latest film, which is a two-and-a-half hour parable of political and social ideas set entirely in a north German village in 1913 and 1914, you wonder what you're watching, how its disparate parts hang together and what it all might mean. More than [...]

Derek Elley on Looking for Eric (above, Ken Loach and Eric Cantona) in Variety: "… helmer Ken Loach and writer Paul Laverty's ninth feature together is a curious hybrid: Three movies — boilerplate, socially aware Loach; personal fantasy; romantic comedy — wrap around a central core of a hopeless soccer fanatic who's given a second chance to sort out his life. As in many of [...]