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One of the great things about world cinema is you get insights into different cultures that you don’t always get from documentaries, which are usually an outside-looking-in view.

A funny and refreshing rom-com that doesn’t so much re-invent the genre as give it a healthy enema.

Love Like Poison tells the simple, aching tale of fourteen year old Anna’s fading childhood, as she has her first sexual experiences against the backdrop of her crumbling family life. Marking director

Romance and violence blossom in this gangster come love story. When William Monahan won his Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Departed he firmly cemented himself as one of Hollywood’s most in

The psychological ramifications of war make for engaging and thought-provoking viewing when done properly (Born On The Fourth Of July, The Deer Hunter and Apocalypse Now all feature characters with PTSD symptoms).

Edward Norton does a double act that makes for entertaining viewing in an otherwise muddled film. Edward Norton flits in and out of cinema like a hard to catch butterfly. One minute

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 final film,