The talking heads from the media world - PR execs, former journalists, other filmmakers - provide some of the more troubling yet fascinating insights in the documentary as to how modern corporate entities can react when they come under the spotlight.
The story of how Dole food corporation tried to suppress a documentary about them.
Such is the enthusiasm about SuAnne on the res, where almost everything in this film was shot, that Kaczor has his work cut out to maintain his objectivity.
The story of high school basketball state champion SuAnne Big Crow and how her spirit inspires hope for the Oglala Lakota people of the The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to reclaim their culture.
All in all, a worthy film, an interesting film, from director Yael Bridge, who has a long track record of making films about the left and has garnered two award nominations along the way for same. Also, though, pretty toothless.
Consideration of the decades long debate about "socialism".
Much more complex than it appears on the surface, this is a film full of multi-layered characters powered by great performances, addressing familiar cinematic subjects with a voice of its own.
Anglo-American relations go bad when London mob bosses invest in a West Virginia oil deal in hopes of laundering dirty money.
It's a brave thing for a modern documentary to take on such a technical subject. The issues involved are intelligently yet accessibly addressed.
Why was New Orleans so desperately unprepared for Hurricane Katrina? This documentary explores the corruption and dodgy political dealings that made the disaster's impact worse.
Lee Hall's multi-faceted script manages to open up the story behind the strike, touches on sexuality and expression through art while appearing to be just telling a damn good story.
Young lad from up north finds freedom through ballet.
The fashions may have come and gone since John Schlesinger commited Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall's story of a young man torn between his family and the future to film but Billy Liar is still suprisingly light on his feet 50 years down the line.
A young man who finds lies easier than the truth is torn between the present and a possible future.
This is not a film that will enable them, or you, to have a good time all of the time.
Bill and Ted have yet to write the promised song that will unite the world, and with the structure of time itself now in jeopardy, they're running out of chances.
This is more an introduction to Douglas as a man than a creator.
An elegiac tribute to the hugely influential Scots filmmaker featuring contributions from the life-long friend who knew him best, Peter Jewell, as well as directors Lynne Ramsay and Lenny Abrahamson.
It’s Gerrard who really carries the film, presenting us with a young man whose conflicted thinking is never well concealed despite his efforts to seem in control, but who has real emotional depths beneath it.
Deep in the Forest of Dean, a small-time criminal on the run, returns again and again to the same moment of judgement, and the same impossible choice.
Amid all the deprivation Arnold, as is her style, uncovers elements that lift the action out of the ordinary and into the realms of fantasy and magical realism.
12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids and Bailey who is approaching puberty seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.
With imagery that shifts seamlessly from the kawaii to the diabolical, not least in a darkly psychedelic sequence near the end, this is a film that really makes its mark.
Three children decide to leave their homes looking a better life.
So dull, incompetent and ridiculous that it can and will be championed only by a repeat audience of ironists and iconoclasts looking for the next cult film to worship.
It’s framed as an erotic thriller, and there are comedic elements, but at it’s core it’s doing something important, reminding viewers to take proper care of themselves and each other.
A serial killer inveigles his way into the friendly, supportive space of a queer nudist camp.
The rituals set in motion at the start, also tune us into the wavelength of portent, so that a heron's feet on a rug or the sound of locusts carry at least as much threat as the site of a loaded gun.
Story of a family who become involved with the drugs trade.
There’s a dryness to this comedic drama which occasionally makes it drag, but Omerzu breaks with it to great effect in places, when he’s ready to present contrasting scenes of highly emotive, character-driven drama.
An ageing proprietor of a technology company has dedicated his whole life to his work, so it comes as a big blow when he discovers that payments to suppliers have been held up for months. But what can he do when the firm’s accountant is nowhere to be seen?
Some patience is required but the general calm and tranquillity of the film becomes part of its charm.
After a long period of isolation, Antonin, a young man suffering from persisting exhaustion, rediscovers the world at a rehabilitation centre for birds.
Young Lister is a marvel, showing a remarkably sophisticated understanding of what her role requires as Lila, having suffered significant brain damage, gradually begins to require verbal and motor skills.
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Though the film feels too smart and too busy for its own good at times, the story remains fascinating (though troubling), and the cinematography always striking.
An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.
There's a heavy helping of genre clichés in Brad Michael Elmore's pacy, energetic teen thriller, but he succeeds very effectively in updating the old stories for a modern audience.
A teenage girl on summer vacation in Los Angeles fights to survive after she falls in with four queer feminist vampires, who try to rid the city's streets of predatory men.
A tight little film that could have been disastrous if mishandled.
A woman snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog. Her philandering, absentee husband is forced to become reacquainted with his four children and sister-in-law as they attempt to keep the family together during this bizarre crisis.
Denovan is a capable lead but it’s Nsue who really stands out and, despite having less screen time overall, gets the most interesting character moments.
A pair of thieves get more than they bargained for when they target Beryl, a seemingly innocent elderly widow.
Writer-director Romain de Saint-Blanquat sets the story in an in-between space, reflecting the threshold Françoise stands upon, but despite her intentions, seems hesitant to cross.
1967, Mardi Gras. Françoise is a 17-year-old boarder in an all-girls Catholic high school. Convinced that she has only one night left before her death, she sneaks out with her friend Delphine to attend a costume party and live the night as if it was her last.
An Englishman gets more than he bargained for when an American on his cruise ship offers to tell him the story of his relationship with a beautiful but dangerous woman.
Those with a taste for B-movie excess may stay the course.
A former pentathlete stuck in a small forest village while her car is being fixed finds her self drawn into a mystery surrounding the inhabitants of the local castle, a strange competition, and an ancient manuscript which people are willing to kill for.
