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Safe House
There is an annual tradition in Hollywood, producer Franklin Leonard compliesthe Black List; a list, based on fellow producers’ votes, of the best unproduced films currently doing the studio rounds. What this essentially means...
Films
Snowtown
When sexually abused, alienated teen Jamie (Lucas Pittaway) meets his mother Liz’s (Louise Harris) charismatic new beau John Bunting (Daniel Henshall), life seems to be looking up.
Films
The Silence
Two murders open this hugely impressive feature debut, set in the oppressive heat of a German summer.
Films
Shame
Sinister, evocative and hugely powerful, Shame is a film that draws you into a bleak and riveting existence. Addiction is nothing new to cinema. It’s been done many times over from The Lost Weekend (1945) to Trainspotting (1996...
Films
Sleeping Beauty
If you thought student tuition fees in the UK were bad, spare a thought for the poor drongoes attending college in Oz, particularly Lucy (Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning), the protagonist of Julia Leigh’s hypnotic, clinical, chil...
DVD/Blu-ray
Stake Land
An immersive Western thriller masked in the disguise of a Vampire movie that transcends its B-Movie origins in every way. A glance at most multiplex cinema listings these days will guarantee at least one superhero movie or fail...
DVD/Blu-ray
Straw Dogs
Have you ever been to the Edinburgh Fringe? Every year in August, Edinburgh plays host to the world’s biggest and best Arts festival. There’s the cream of comedy, music, theatre (lots of theatre), dance, mime, opera, circus all...
Films
Sitter, The
Within the first ten minutes of The Sitter, as a pre-diet Jonah Hill cycles through night time suburbia, it’s apparent that we are in the safe territory of the lucked-out nice boy comedy.
Films
The Smurfs Cinema Review
In John Carpenter’s seminal ’80s sci-fi/horror movie They Live (also made in the grip of a worldwide recession), the hero, a homeless construction worker, puts on a special pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses and suddenly se...
DVD/Blu-ray
Source Code
Groundhog Day with a thrilling Sci-Fi spin from the visionary director of Moon. When his debut film Moon was released in 2009, Duncan Jones immediately stepped out of the rather foreboding shadow of his father David Bowie. Such...
