By Jamie Steiner Given the annual deluge of releases, discovering a genuinely exciting and innovative filmmaker is all too rare an occurrence in the cinema but, when it happens, it is always
Age Of The Dragons had the potential to be gloriously trashy. A reimagining of Moby Dick but with dragons instead of the titular white whale, and starring Danny Glover, this has got
Nubile girls and sinister locals are not enough to break this thriller from its formulaic origins. Amber Heard’s star has failed to truly rise since her breakout role in All The Boys
Presumably the project that will be best remembered for putting a timely end to Russell Brand’s Hollywood aspirations, it is gleefully ironic that Arthur bursts onto screen with a car crash (involving
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 more at
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 the more
One of the UK film industry’s biggest exports has been the mockney gangster movie, but there was a time when criminals were Britain’s biggest export to Australia, so it’s hardly surprising that
If Guillermo Del Toro is the godfather of contemporary Mexican cinema, then Diego Luna and his buddy Gael Garcia Bernal are its favourite sons. The pair first came to international attention in
The stories of Philip K Dick have been adapted by Hollywood to produce acclaimed masterpieces (Bladerunner), flash-in-the-pan thrillers (Paycheck) and trippy head-scratchers (A Scanner Darkly). Now, The Adjustment Bureau attempts to translate
A tear-jerking film about a family split by tragedy in the 1976 Tangshan earthquake. The biggest grossing film this year in it’s native China, Aftershock is a disaster movie come drama