The story takes a little time to digest, but New York writing team, Eric Bress and J Mackye Gruber, should be congratulated for taking the craft of the sequel seriously.
Carbon copy of original teen
shocker, with new victims and
ingenious special effects.
The film is unnecessary, crude and unrefined, but takes its place in the entertainment black hole that is Friday night, as the cinematic equivalent of a fried Mars bar.
Third time unlucky for the youthful victims of G Reaper, Esq
Observant, informative and very funny, The Final Member is worth watching for far more than the smirk factor.
The owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, the world's foremost penis collection, considers which of two volunteers should provide him with a human specimen.
The film is a hodge-podge of archive clips and interview material but it just about gels and a host of smaller scale family stories round it out nicely.
A documentary about the conflict that ensued after one man unwittingly purchased another man's amputated leg in an auction.
Though Gibney’s film has an interesting figure at its heart, the film never really feels like it is giving either strand of Kuti’s life: the music and the politics, enough attention.
Documentary about a renowned Nigerian Musician who inspired many people in the music scene including Bob Marley and James Brown.
Both the style and the quality of the acting are somewhat uneven, giving the impression that more time and care was taken with some story strands than others.
The story of how the Hindu-Muslim riots that ravaged Gujarat in 2002 altered the lives of a number of different characters.
Tehrani excels in playing a character whose aggression instantly makes her unlikeable, yet who, without ever letting down her guard, gradually reveals the pain and desperation underneath.
A young cleaner gets caught up in the web of suspicion and intrigue between a troubled couple and their neighbours.
The thrilling archival clips and charismatic talking heads alone would make a fabulous documentary in the most traditional sense, but the judicious use of music really brings the film alive.
A documentary about the golden age of West Indian cricket.
Showing a remarkably firm hand for a first-time director, Gray skilfully guides us through a sea of statistics concerning those dying from the disease and archive footage and recollections of the time, while building a cast-iron case against Big Pharma.
A look at the struggle to make anti-retroviral ADS drugs available to infected people worldwide, no matter their financial resources. Read what Dylan Mohan Gray told us about making the film.
There is plenty of intriguing historical backdrop to this story, and Chadwick manages to incorporate much of it without losing focus on the very personal subject at the film's centre.
The story of an 84-year-old Kenyan man's fight for education and equality.
The filmmakers succeed in showing the piecemeal nature of the revolution in Libya and its impact on the landscape.
Documentary showing how Hamid and Tarek leave their lives as students in Canada and travel to Libya, their homeland, to join the fight to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
A confident metaphysical mystery which, as a calling card, offers a tantalising glimpse into the future of Korean cinema, while coming with a gimmick of its own.
When an academic discovers his missing wife has become a shaman, he fears he is beginning to lose his mind.
It is the central love story - beautifully realised both in terms of camerawork and acting - that underpins all the rest of the directorial flourishes.
A middle-class teen and her lesbian maid find plans to forge a life together thwarted by a death.
Fish Story may at first seem almost aleatoric in its structure, but this punkish chronicle of hope enduring in extremis and heroism paid forward turns out to be much more than a mere shaggy dog story.
A record shop owner insists that one of the records in his store will "save the world".
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