This is what used to be known in the sixth form lavs as bike shed humour - infantile male gags about the female anatomy, genitalia, show-off swaggering and sexual innuendos, so broad they flatten subtlety and boil boob gags until they pop.
TV news channel farce, with bike
shed humour and sexist
innuendo.
There is little within the film that is obviously futuristic, but you do not need special effects to represent the future - a depressing dystopia is already being lived.
The pace of the story moves in almost Herculean strides and, in covering a complex plot at pace, it manages to avoid the common error of leaving the viewer behind.
For anyone who ever doubted Soderbergh’s artistic integrity, this unassuming film is a minor monument to excellence of execution and the enduring validity of his work.
Tribute to the writer and performer Spalding Gray.
A mind-bender of a film that loops its characters' past into their present or, if you choose to read it another way, loops their future into their present.
A man on the run falls in with a group of criminals.
The boy discovers his father’s failings as he grows up and is hurt by them. His mother has always known, but she is of an older generation where wives were expected to suffer in silence.
In Victorian London, puritanical doctors prescribe abstinence to a young couple after the life-threatening birth of their daughter. Sexual repression leads to obsession and opens the door to paranormal phenomena
In essence, the story of the indomitable nature of the human spirit, the resilience and commitment of a few to help the many and a triumph of hope in adversity.
Documentary about a wealthy, privileged family who build a community for children whose lives have been devastated by HIV/AIDS.
That they make such a fascinating pair is down to Delaporte's spare but beautifully observed script, and the brilliantly understated performances by Clotilde Hesme and Gregory Gadebois.
Ulrich Seidl’s unique, stylised documentary depicts in trademark, single-take set-ups a number of Viennese residents and their relationships to their beloved pets.
A documentary about people who turn to animals for companionship.
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
One of the things that shines through very clearly from the footage of Leibovitz at work is how sensitive she is to her subjects, consistently managing to capture original and unexpected images of even the most-photographed actors, performers and politici
Documentary focusing on the American photographer.
The final 20 minutes turn the screen into a video game.
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution and the Reich's third in command after Hitler and Himmler.
