This is the sort of story that will be familiar to viewers of the likes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, as the lifestyle of the accused is put on trial as much as her actions.
Courtroom drama about a teenager caught up in a murder case.
On the one hand, a parable of corporate greed and exploitation, and of society's treatment of the disabled or "deficient", and on the other a story of the way we all reinvent ourselves precisely through story
Family survivalist adventure in post-apocalyptic Turkey.
Marazzi is so focused on the frame of her life that the picture of Taro itself feels lost in the shuffle.
Paris, July 14, 1937. Gerda Taro spends her final day before returning to the Spanish front with her Leica alongside Robert Capa - one of the great loves of her life - and the friends with whom she fled Nazi Germany.
In Copenhagen in the aftermath of World War one, a young woman in desperate circumstances takes on a job which will lead her to still greater depths of despair.
The story of the pop duo Milli Vanilli, who rose to international stardom before becoming the subject of scandal when it emerged that they had never sung a word on their records.
16 women filmmakers make their voices heard with this anthology of genre-themed short films, all made in direct response to the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade.
Disabled people just haven't had this kind of representation.
When a riot breaks out in Milwaukee, America's most segregated city, medical transport driver Vic is torn between his promise to get a group of elderly Russians to a funeral and his desire to help Tracy, a young black woman with ALS.
It’s a wonderful experiment, and often very funny, but it is also, perhaps intentionally, exhausting.
Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment. But Sissy's live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare.
It’s all likely to bore even the teenage boy target audience who’ll have outgrown the eponymous toys by the time they might stand a chance of being diverted by this tripe.
The GI Joes face a double thrat - from COBRA and from their own government.
David Scarpa’s screenplay wisely keeps the political machinations on a slow simmer, so that they are easily followed and don’t get in the way of the nicely worked set-pieces Scott has in store.
A man seeks vengeance as a gladiator in Rome after his wife is killed in a raid.
One of the most tightly plotted and sharply observed pieces of science fiction to grace our screens for some years.
Safe within their glasshouse sanctuary, a family survives a memory-shredding neurotoxin that has poisoned the air outside - until a stranger forces them to confront a truth they have done their best to forget.
What is billed as Lovecraftian horror certainly fits into that mould on one level, but it is perhaps more like what one might have expected had old HP taken to writing sitcoms.
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
The film is at its most effective when we feel the urgency of their boredom – the athletic one pacing in circles like a trapped animal – juxtaposed with the languid charm of their environment.
Three women live in a palace where all needs are met but they can't leave. They develop secret touch-signals and practice death rituals, believing it's their escape. Tensions rise as they struggle between comfort and freedom.
L'Ukraine Au Cœur drives the message home about the long-lasting damage done to all, including the youngest, who had forgotten what the sky looked like or how to play.
Reconsideration of the way their lives were 'spun' for public consumption at the height of their fame is so interesting, it makes you wish there was more of it.
Documentary considering the career and impact of four Georgian women chess Grand Masters.
While the concept is a quirky, eccentric delight, the film itself rarely feels like anything other than a run-of-the-mill animation of (ahem) garden variety standard.
The humour is fast, the car chases hairy, the characters way wicked, the venues seedy, the fun accident prone, the sex tantric and the chance of living until tomorrow slim.
This is toxic masculinity masquerading as boredom, with Wenders' refusal to give it emotional adornment only adding to the sense of existential strangeness of the whole affair.
Following in the footsteps of a goalie after he is sent off in a game.
Neel’s movie grips not because of its depiction of hazing, although that is sweaty, disturbing and naturalistic, but because of the psychological tension that builds between the two brothers.
Tension mounts between two brothers as the younger undergoes pledge week at the elder's fraternity house.
To refer to something as ‘pure cinema’ is uninspired, but Godland is one of those rare films that has some untranslatable quality that speaks for itself.
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
Alongside the extreme and dramatic aspects of this story are all sorts of insidious little details which show the harm done by this kind of thinking in day to day life.
Convinced that his wife is possessed by dark forces, a desperate husband puts his faith in the power of a pitiless self-proclaimed exorcist, who is convinced that salvation can be found only through his hands.
There’s a sense that everyone is struggling to breathe under pressures which nobody is willing to address directly.
In a windswept fishing village, a mother is torn between protecting her beloved son and her own sense of right and wrong. A lie she tells for him rips their family and close-knit community apart.
Whilst the dark comedy here generally hits the spot and the characters are quirky yet believable, God’s Petting You doesn’t really have enough substance to justify its running time
A dark and twisted comedy which explores the depths and depravity of the Brighton underworld.
The first Japanese production to be shot specifically for IMAX, there's plenty big on that big big screen.
Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting to recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges.
Video game storytelling has advanced quite a bit, to be clear, but as with so many things large chunks of Godzilla X Kong are trapped in the early 1980s.
Two ancient titans, Godzilla and Kong, clash in an epic battle as humans unravel their intertwined origins and connection to Skull Island's mysteries.
Maika Monroe is superb as always, showing that she can adapt to pretty much anything and make it believable. Her character is a basket of clichés but she gives her a distinct identity nonetheless.
When a vice detective finds his ex-wife murdered and his daughter kidnapped by a Satanic cult, he quits the police force, gets tattoos and infiltrates the cult to hunt down its charismatic leader, with the help of a recovering drug addict who has an agenda of her own.
