Bomb It!
This 2007 doco is an impressive achievement. Director/producer Jon Reiss (Better Living Through Circuitry) travelled the world and interviewed a who’s... read more...
Changeling
Eastwood’s powerful direction includes a stark execution scene exposing the hypocritical atrocity of capital punishment. But whether it’s a... read more...
Billy The Kid
Jennifer Vendetti’s documentary portrait has won critical praise and awards across the world (including the audience prize at MIFF 2007). Her achievement... read more...
Bustin' Down The Door
Narrated in a bored fashion by Edward Norton, Jeremy Gosch’s documentary jutaposes interviews with the protagonists (plus other surfers, promoters... read more...
Celebrity: Dominick Dunne
Why does Dominick Dunne hate Frank Sinatra? Because Ol’ Blue Eyes once instructed a flunky to punch Dominick in the head as a lark. Yes, Dunne’s... read more...
Burn After Reading
If you’re not a Coen convert, Burn After Reading might be best viewed after less critically controversial offerings as The Big Lebowski, Fargo... read more...
2046
I recently saw 2046 by Writer/Director Kong Kar-Wai, which is about four years old now. It’s a love story that ambles through the city of Shanghai... read more...
Choke
It seemed inevitable that we’d be bombarded with so many Palahniuk film adaptations that we’d finally have to learn how to spell his name –... read more...
American Teen
If you’ve seen one American teenage film you’ve seen them all. While it’s obviously testing for us as cinemagoers to watch the same old sex, drugs,... read more...
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
An old-fashioned male melodrama disguised as a one of those twisty crime thrillers that clogged cinemas all through the ‘90s, Before The Devil…... read more...
John Cassavetes: The Collection DVD Box
Sink into this newly remastered set of Cassavetes’ films and you can immediately see how they’re the dirty, short-black-coffee parallels to... read more...
2 Days In Paris
It’s rough round the edges, very much a low-budget first film, but if this is Delpy’s unofficial answer to Before Sunrise, it’s also... read more...
30 Days Of Night
30 Days Of Night is generic in the true sense of the word. The characters don’t need personalities, sparkling dialogue, or motivation beyond staying... read more...
Angel-A (2005)
Did you think that Amelie was good, but too girly? Or wish It’s A Wonderful Life starred a supermodel? Were you curious about arthouse classic Wings... read more...
Black Sheep
New Zealand. Killer sheep. The genius of this kind of high-concept is that it lets the poster alone tell you everything you need to know about Black Sheep.... read more...
Black Snake Moan
Heartbroken Tennesee bluesman Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson) finds a panty-clad nymphomaniac (Christina Ricci) left for dead in his driveway. He takes her... read more...
Branded To Kill (1967)
Everyone has a cinema aesthetic they’d secretly like to live inside. Tim Burton’s gothic whimsy? Michael Bay’s hyper-saturated blockbuster... read more...
300
Frank Miller’s vaguely-historical comic of 300 Spartans fighting an entire Persian army in 480 BC is so swift and brutal that it’s almost... read more...
Cashback
Gifted Brit Sean Ellis successfully expands his 2004 oscar-nominated short into a playful indie feature. Art student Ben Willis fights an insomnia-inducing... read more...
Breakfast on Pluto
After four years off to write a novel, Neil Jordan has come out of the study to bring Breakfast on Pluto out of the closet. Adapted from Patrick McCabe’s... read more...
C.R.A.Z.Y
With a soundtrack that draws upon the vintage croon of Patsy Cline and David Bowie, C.R.A.Z.Y leaves you with the uplifting sense that no matter how tough... read more...