The story of two men who meet in Yemen in the mid-1990s and join Al Qaida, only to end up taking very different paths in life, Laura Poitras’s The Oath …
Never Let Me Go
Why are writers and filmmakers so afraid of calling their work science fiction? Or is it the marketing companies and not the creators? Either way, there is a perception that …
Yogi Bear
It was only a matter of time that another classic family cartoon fell by the computer animated way side. It happened to The Chipmunks, it happened Garfield, it happened to …
The Roommate
By Jamie Steiner. The proverbial ‘single white female’ surely counts as one of modern cinema’s most exhausted clichés
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Passenger Side
When the words “Thinking man’s Judd Apatow” are used to describe Canadian road film Passenger Side it’s hard not to think of a front of witty dick jokes punctuated heartfelt, …
Alien Vs. Ninja DVD
Despite the title’s promise, it’s not that Alien this intrepid bunch of Ninjas are fighting in Seiji Chiba’s low-budget but surprisingly fun take on the whole Alien/Predator genre which hints …
Amer DVD
A Dario Argento inspired horror expression that stuns with its visuals and disturbs with its subtext. Amer is not your normal slasher horror film. It bares little in common with …
Late Mizoguchi: Eight Films
Kenji Mizoguchi, the visionary Japanese director is admired and even revered by almost all that have seen his films; the great French critic Jean Douchet, for example, said of Mizoguchi’s …
Gnaw
Obviously wearing its Texas Chainsaw Massacre influence on its sleeve, Gregory Mandry’s Gnaw is sure to put anyone off renting a cosy cottage in the countryside for a while; that …