Movie Gazette

Reviews Featuring Esther

Carnages
This meaty drama may prove an acquired taste, but it’s far from a load of bull. And don’t worry – I’m stopping the puns right there, before the temptation to say “the steaks are too high” just becomes far too great.

Orphan
A really well made creepy horror that lets itself down at the end.

News Items For Esther

Kafkaesque battle over writer's papers
Katya Adler reports on the seemingly endless legal fight for ownership of a collection of manuscripts belonging to the writer Franz Kafka - which might include unpublished works.

Nigeria women protest at killings
Hundreds of Nigerian women protest over last Sunday's violence near Jos, where many women and children were massacred.

Zimbabwe's forgotten children
In 20 years conditions and facilities for children in Zimbabwe have gone from being some the best in Africa to some of the worst. The country's education and health systems in collapse and a generation of parents decimated by HIV / Aids. South African film-maker Xoliswa Sithole travels to Zimbabwe to document the lives of several children.

Day in pictures
Images from around the world on Monday, 1 March 2010.

DNA match found in Orkney murder
A court hears that blood which matched the DNA of a murder accused was found on a pillow at his alleged victim's home.