Deals with a human story rather than making political points.
A TV reporter is tasked with painting memorial portrait for a coworker who died in a tragic accident that he survived. His colleague’s daughter becomes his guide.
Director Drake Doremus handles the material superbly, aware of its pitfalls and sensitive to all the vagaries of human behaviour which make these characters so intriguing.
The arrival of an exchange student reawakens a middle aged man's musical ambitions.
Although Yang's directorial debut is overlong and unecessarily laboured in the early section, he is genuinely bringing something fresh to the table in terms of the atmosphere he creates.
Can a schoolgirl offer salvation to a Korean gangster?
Shot in an interview style, Breath Control is not particularly revolutionary... However, what really sets it apart is the director's love of his subject.
The phenomenon of human beat boxing revisited as a documentary.
If you know (Luc) Besson's oeuvre, you know Brick Mansions.
An undercover Detroit cop navigates a dangerous neighborhood that's surrounded by a containment wall with the help of an ex-con in order to bring down a crime lord and his plot to devastate the entire city.
Succumbing to rather too much melodrama in the final third, which undercuts the chilliness of what has gone before, this is nonetheless an interesting debut that promises better to come.
A gangster woos a cafe waitress to save himself from the noose.
Saturday Night Live regular Mooney, who has a twinkly mischievousness and comic timing reminiscent of a young Gene Wilder, plays James as naive, but never stupid.
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
What Peckinpah does so brilliantly in this deceptively clever film is to build elegantly on the established tropes of the genre only to pull the rug from under them half way through.
When a rich man offers a big reward for the head of the man who impregnated his daughter, an impoverished couple set out on the trail, but the world proves much more brutal than they expected.
O’Nan the writer and director consistently pulls an unexpected development or a priceless piece of dialogue from up his sleeve, ensuring you never lose interest in the tangled lives of a flawed but basically good-hearted main trio.
The footballing action is also presented energetically and naturalistically and, because of the strong dynamic between the brothers, we care deeply about their fate.
Two brothers try to escape the crime-ridden slums by trying out for a national football team.
