Open as he was to manifold artistic influences, Whistler makes a fine subject through whom to explore the late 1800s and the changing society of the US and Europe.
The famous artist's story is told in connection to a wide-ranging exhibition of his works at the Tate Britain.
There’s a sweet-hearted but dated dad rock quality to this tale.
Peter’s parents divorced after 65 years, his wife left him after 35, and his sons, Nick and Mickey, are off leading their own lives. When Peter flies to Tulum, crashing Nick's bachelor party hosted by Mickey, he realises he's not the only one in crisis.
Puts the past into a direct dialogue with the present.
Documentarian Christine Choy tracks down three exiled dissidents from the Tiananmen Square massacre, in order to find closure on an abandoned film she began shooting in 1989.
Coster-Waldau is a superb lead, distant in the way one would expect of a man going through such a difficult experience, yet compelling.
Insurance agent Max is in the midst of an existential crisis. Whilst investigating the claim made by a suspected widow he chances upon the secretive Hotel Aurora, a luxury resort which specialises in suicide.
Every bit as quirky, engaging and rebellious as the artwork it aims to celebrate. Sadly, it also shares graffiti's tendency to be energetic but scattergun and ephemeral.
A documentary about a French shopkeeper who tracked down the famous graffiti artist Banksy... or a very clever piece of performance art.
A troubled actor begins to exhibit a disruptive behaviour while shooting a remake of The Exorcist. His estranged daughter wonders if he's slipping back into his past addictions or if there's something more sinister at play.
At 12, Regan was a helpless child in 1973; in today's world we instinctively grant her more agency so the territory between self and demon becomes more obscure.
A mother fights to save her child, who may be possessed by a demon.
Tired, bloated, crude, stumbling, and showing its age, Expendables as a franchise is perhaps a reflection of some of its cast.
Armed with every weapon they can get their hands on, the Expendables are the world's last line of defence and the team that gets called when all other options are off the table.
The Expendables 2 has the cast you feel the first one should've had - though Steven Seagal is really needed to complete the alignment of the planets - but it fails to craft anything really unique on its own with these assets.
A mission goes awry for the Expendables when the death of a colleague leads to a quest for revenge.
Activities like this are often described as character building, but character is precisely what is lacking here.
At a wilderness camp for troubled youth, two girls form a bond that gets tested by love, money and experiences beyond their perceived realm of existence.
Instead of flooring the pedal and being a wild ride, the film stays within the speed limit.
A couple who are unable to have children learn that because they suffer from Past Love Syndrome, the only solution is for them to sleep with all their exes again.
With the teenagers full of the ill-considered callousness of youth, it's Goss on whom the film depends for a moral compass. This is his best work to date.
Four high school seniors feel their day-to-day lives at school are getting a little dull, so they made a pact to plan and execute a series of perfect, elaborate murders and get some thrills behind them before heading off to college.
Alien invasion aficionados would do well to avoid but if you're a fan of the comedy of discomfort with a slacker vibe and a hint of romance, Extraterrestrial certainly has charms.
A love triangle simmers under the threat of an alien invasion.
Not everything here is successful, but the delicately handled character material pays dividends, and the real life chemistry between the two stars carries across well to their characters.
During their final weekend together, two best friends test the limits of their friendship while making a double-meta film.
There isn't a massive amount of 'action' per say, but Apted's expertly-paced tale throbs with genuine suspense as the net progressively closes in on Guy.
A surgeon begins to suspect one of his eminent colleagues may be in the business of harming rather than healing people.
The pleasure of Garland's film lies more in the deeper questions of what makes us 'human' and in the tensions generated between Caleb, Nathan and Ava than in the plot, which suffers from predictability.
A programmer goes on retreat to his boss' hideaway and is asked to help evaluate an artificial intelligence android.
The dreamlike narrative gives Bruchon free rein to experiment with the constituent parts of the room, not just moving his camera around but creating a corridor from sheets and entangling his actors within them.
Eugene's home is quiet and peaceful as he goes to sleep, but when he feels something travelling up his body, he realises that it's not going to stay that way.
Drink in the imposition of expressionism through ergonomics, gaze up, craning at shots considered anew.
A journey through the pictorial world of Orson Welles, his drawings, paintings and works of youth, seen for the first time on screen thanks to his daughter Beatrice Welles.
The real and the performed run so close together that, by the end of the film, it's not entirely clear if even Tammy knows where one ends and the other starts.
An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
Franju is carefully slicing along the line where the concrete rigours of modern science intersect with the abstractions of youth, beauty and ephemerality.
A surgeon abducts girls - attempting to transplant their faces on to that of his disfigured daughter.
Morrison's work was created without prejudice and finds the same beauty in soot-stained stone as in stormy skies, if one is ready to see it. Director Anthony Baxter endeavours to take the same approach with this documentary.
A documentary about one of Scotland’s most gifted painters, James Morrison.
As in the Hitchcock classic, the supporting characters help to balance the film and substantiate its themes, all the while implicating viewers in Henry's voyeurism.
An agoraphobic young man hacks the webcams of local women and comes to suspect that one of them is a serial killer.
The engaging story, which never patronises Nat and shows that his dislike of reading doesn't limit his imaginative powers, may well work effectively in encouraging reluctant readers.
An animated tale about a little boy who finds that the characters in the books in his deceased Aunt Eleanor's library are alive, and must battle to save them.
A breezy, captivating and balanced tale of a studio whose rise and fall is perhaps the only story actually more bizarre than the plots of the films that came out of it.
A film that will no doubt appeal to those already with an interest in classical music, or Russian culture, but perhaps not those who come to the film with an appreciation of Sokurov’s feature films.
A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.
