Yes, it’s flawed and a bit daft at times, but for transforming a show that virtually nobody thought was worth bringing back into impressive Saturday night TV, Davies deserves all the back-patting he gets.
Russell T Davies' resurrection of the time traveller.
Tennant’s Doc is less haunted by past events than his predecessor and more of an infectious enthusiast, but there’s no doubting the gobby Scot is very, very likeable.
Torchwood, Cybermen and Madame De Pompadour - oh, my! And Peter Kay running around in a fat suit.
Every image drives the story on, or highlights the characters’ tragedy.
Restored version of the Lean classic sees an idealistic poet/physician and the fiancée of a political activist meet and fall in love against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.
Although the tone is a little uneven and the narratorial voice more of an affectation than any real use to the plot, there is a charm and verve to Amadeo’s film.
An emotionally disconnected teenager finds himself forming relationships after becoming stranded in Madrid.
Doghouse offers a lot of shouting, a ton of gore and a male wish-fulfilment fantasy where all women really ARE nothing but trouble and the only way to deal with them is to hit them round the head.
A ‘lads’ weekend’ turns into a nightmare when the boys arrive in a village where the women have turned into flesh-eating zombies.
An exhilarating insight into a moment in Californian history when some underprivileged kids broke the rules and did things on skateboards that had never been seen before.
Absorbing documentary about
the birth of modern
skateboarding, told by those who
were there.
Centering on a beautifully observed performance by co-director Verónica Llinás, this is a film that treats its outsider heroine with dignity and reminds the viewer what it really takes to survive in this way.
The story of a nameless woman living in the wilds with a pack of dogs.
There's no doubting the seriousness of the point Chapiron is trying to make either regarding the way that young criminals can become trapped in a spiral of reoffending, but by pushing all the action into barely believable melodrama, his argument is weaken
Three teenagers find life is tough on the inside in this remake of Alan Clarke's Scum.
Shot in an unobstrusive, ‘cinema verite’, documentary style, the film never pushes its politics down the viewer’s throat, rather presents a picture of the conflicts ordinary people deal with daily.
Six Iranian youngsters rebel against Islamic rule in Tehran.
Takeshi Kitano returns to the tradition of the bunraku doll theatre, where tragedy is expressed in silence, leaving the audience to make sense of it, or not.
Three separate stories of love
lost in the beautiful landscapes of
Japan.
Donkeys is an interesting experiment. But its script is patchy, and at times strands the excellent performances in a wasteland of poorly defined relevance.
An ailing man seeks to reconnect with his family but inadvertently keeps making all his previous blunders worse.
Donor Unknown never quite pushes hard enough on the big ethical and philosophical questions involved in the notion of fatherhood by proxy.
A young woman born via donor insemination advertises in search of her biological father, meets half-siblings and subsequently explores her feelings for the surprised stranger who reads about her quest.
In places it's very well scripted, astute and incisive, but for most UK viewers it simply won't translate.
Set in the world of New York improv comedy, where the members of a tight-knit troupe are thrown into disarray when one of their ranks lands a coveted spot on a top TV show.
Anyone with a decent education in literature and art will find a great deal in this film which can be treasured, but for the general viewer it is likely to be an exercise in frustration.
A Paris coquette seduces and toys with a heroic general, only to fall suddenly and tragically in love with him.
The film has charm, due in most parts to Shameik Moore's performance
Self confessed teen geek from the wrong side of the tracks in Inglewood, Cal, with aspirations to go to Harvard, is compromised by a stash of drugs and threats from gangster crews.
To pull this off requires a strong script and intelligent direction, and, surprisingly, this film mostly succeeds, despite occasional moments of ham-fistedness.
A man has eternal youth... but what about the portrait in his attic?
Some will find the apparently random nature of its early scenes so irritating that they'll just give up. But there will almost certainly be others who will consider this to be one of the best films they have ever seen.
As Cold War tensions rise and the world teeters on the brink of destruction, Alfred Hitchcock meets his double.
