We Were Here
David Weissman’s documentary We Were Here chronicles the dramatic effect AIDS had on ’60s and ’70s San Francisco, transforming it from... read more...
Buck
Buck Brannaman, who consulted on Robert Redford’s film The Horse Whisperer and was one of the models for the title character, is a legend in ‘natural... read more...
'Buck' Interview
Directed by Cindy Meehl, Buck reflects on real-life cowboy Buck Brannaman’s transformation from an abused, affection-starved child to a generous, game-changing... read more...
Shame
Steve McQueen’s beautifully crafted drama recalls Drive, and not just for transforming Manhattan into the same gritty, jaded demimonde as Refn’s... read more...
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The palimpsestic title is a clue: Martha’s (Elizabeth Olsen) innermost identity has been blurred and desecrated by an abusive cult whose leader, Patrick... read more...
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’s now ten-times-Oscar-nominated film is the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent movie star who rejects the incipient... read more...
Weekend
Russell sits at work with a blistering hangover, repeatedly revising a text to a guy he picked up the night before: “I feel like shit.” Should... read more...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Where Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-James Bond. Still, director... read more...
Young Adult
Jason Reitman’s dramedy recalls Bad Teacher in its fearless refusal to make its heroine likeable, and Diablo Cody’s shrewd script explores how we... read more...
Drawn To Screen
Whether you’re the kind of person who picks apart film adaptations of graphic novels/comics and bangs on about the lack of depth/truth of the protagonist,... read more...
The Iron Lady
What better traditional holiday entertainment than a rollicking English pantomime? This political fairytale is seasonably hilarious, and ultra-conservative... read more...
Closer Productions Box Set
With the success of Shut Up Little Man, which screened at Sundance, Sheffield and Edinburgh, Closer Productionsnow know what the jackpot looks like... read more...
Don't Need You - The Herstory Of Riot Grrrl
To understand why Riot Grrrl mattered, you need to know that ’80s punk and hardcore shows were a major sausage fest. Mostly male bands played to... read more...
Restless
There’s much to hate about Gus Van Sant’s cancer weepie for the Frankie set, but I’ve only got 200 words here. Better spend them unpicking why, even... read more...
The Skin I Live In
Both preposterously serious and blackly playful, Pedro Almodóvar’s melodrama explores how trauma and perversion are literally inscribed on the body.... read more...
Attack The Block
English writer-director Joe Cornish (of cult comedy duo Adam and Joe) splashes with a feature film debut that’s just plain fun. It’s the anti-Harry... read more...
Melancholia
I feel strongly that Lars von Trier is fucked in the head and that we should condemn his films’ glorying in women’s psychological (and sometimes physical)... read more...
The Tall Man
It is amusing that, among the many awards and accolades, the book of The Tall Man did not escape winning the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award.... read more...
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Okay, here’s what Eva and Franklin (Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly) need to talk about – how they ended up with a Eurasian kid (Ezra Miller; as... read more...
The Debt
John Madden’s Nazi-hunting spy thriller recalls the aphorism, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The Debt intertwines... read more...
Moneyball
Moneyball has all the sports-movie ingredients: an underdog team; a manager haunted by past failures; talented but overlooked players; an amazing true-story... read more...
This Is Not a Film
Panahi wakes. He wanders around his apartment. He watches. He rants. He tells a few jokes. He helps somebody take out the trash. All of this is as rigorously... read more...
Sigur Rós: Inni
Watching Iceland’s Sigur Rós perform live is a revelation. A coming of age/lightbulb/otherworldly moment. Their music singles you out in the crowd... read more...
Drive
Don’t expect a thrill-packed action flick; despite its tautly stylish opening sequence, Drive has a pageant’s processional rhythm. Gosling inhabits... read more...