the subject matter is powerful, although the relationship between the young daughter of a Kurdish rebel and her army officer captor/husband/torturer could have been explored in more depth.
For a film that has a strong theme of romance and seems intent on exploring grey areas between superstition and religion, reality and fantasy, there are an awful lot of things being presented in black and white.
A town's church virgin begins granting favours... but people should be careful what they wish for.
Samurai revenge stories are not exactly thin on the ground and it takes something special to get attention today, but Blade Of The Immortal is just that.
Manga tale of an immortal warrior, who cannot be released from his torment until he has killed 10000 evil-doers.
It isn’t just Blade killing a different ‘monster of the week’ every episode (cynically, this would have been more popular), it’s a big inter-connected canvas in the style of The Sopranos.
The vampire killer sinks his teeth into a spin-off series.
Waiting for the chop, as it were, makes for a captivating and disquieting watch, an experience which Stever herself describes as sitting through a horror film.
A woman's life changes dramatically after she unexpectedly discovers that she's pregnant.
Juraj Lehotský's Blind Loves not only succeeds in describing the world as blind people really experience it but, in so doing, presents the sighted viewer with a fascinating insight into a different way of living.
The complexities of love and relationships as experienced by various visually impaired people.
Once again Li Yang, has directed a fascinating portrayal of the contradictions inherent in the world’s fastest growing economy.
Looking for work in rural northern China, a female student is kidnapped by a businessman posing as her employer, and sold into a family as the son’s bride to be.
Blissfully Yours, a dreamlike depiction of the reality of several ordinary people, is a little less bizarre, in terms of the scenario, though barely in terms of structure and editing.
A languid celebration of the pleasures of the moment - Thai style.
For all the film's particularities of time and place, everything here feels essential and archetypal, as painful rites of passage are played out in the forms of mystery.
After their father dies, two brothers find themselves facing up to his troubled legacy.
There simply isn't anything here that will surprise anyone who is a veteran of cop films, with characters' actions, plot twists, misdirections and revelations quite easy to see coming.
A police detective's disgust at the murder of a young girl leads him to make dangerous decisions.
Yes, the acting is suspect, the script hit and miss and the whole endeavor undertaken on a wing and a prayer, but Bloodstorm never outstayed its welcome.
Scientific researchers in Antarctica uncover a surviving Nazi colony.
Though essentially a familiar monster movie / survival horror story, Blood Glacier is so well put together that it feels fresh and punches well above its weight.
Scientists investigate a glacier from which a mysterious toxic liquid is leaking.
