Pompeii becomes a place where fantasy is tested against historical violence, and where looking too closely can break the story one came to preserve.
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.
Shot entirely inside the video game Grand Theft Auto, this documentary charts the story of two out-of-work actors as they try to stage a full production of Hamlet within this notoriously violent digital world.
The performances are generally fine if unremarkable - although it's bizarre that despite Mardenborough’s hometown being in Wales, not a single actor here has a Welsh accent.
The story of how Jann Mardenborough went from being a gamer to a professional motor racer.
Beyond its individual enjoyable moments, McCabe’s film is well-structured so that it builds to the magnificent spectacle of a successful trapping night and its aftermath.
Documentary about the business of grasshopper trapping in Uganda.
Alfonso Cuaron's film comes with a powerful force of its own - one which drags you towards the edge of your seat, forces your nails down into the cinema arm rests and sucks the breath out of you.
A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.
1982. French President François Mitterrand decides to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his mandate: the Great Arch of La Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe. Against all odds, Otto von Spreckelsen, a Danish architect, wins the competition...
The multi-layered emotional consideration of themes, in particular the clash of cultural traditions and modernity - the building up of the city mirroring the destruction of the people within it and the natural landscape - are resonant and engaging.
Mystical portrait of the contemporary central South American cityscape and those who work within its bowels and environs.
Wilson's background is in commercials and he's well suited to a script which is all about narrative economy.
A fun filled flight to a remote atoll turns into a nightmare for five passengers when their seaplane is destroyed in a freak accident and they are trapped on a raft, 100 miles from shore with man-eating sharks lurking beneath the surface.
The clever dialogue and spirited performances find humour amid a generational discord developed over a visually striking journey.
A religious man dreams of finding gold coins hidden in a cave. Aware that his belief prohibits him from claiming the treasure, he hires a non-religious young man to assist in its retrieval.
This isn’t a big showdown in the style of recent superhero movies, but something far more organic and joyously deranged.
A young boy is chosen as the defender of good and must team up with Japan's ancient spirits and creatures of lore to attempt to destroy the forces of evil.
A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance.
Waugh understands that a blast wave shattering windows on a suburban street is a far more powerful image than yet another shot of the White House exploding.
A family struggle to survive as an asteroid breaks up in Earth's atmosphere and sends deadly fragments crashing down.
The real pleasure of the film is in the non-stop parade of funny, well-observed scenes and killer lines of dialogue.
A gangly schoolboy develops a crush on a girl who plays some of the best football he's ever seen - but dealing with girls is even more complicated than it first appears.
Gremlins was a success because it understood completely what child audiences really want - cheerful mischief, irreverent violence and things that make you go 'ewwww!'
The cute creature Billy gets for Christmas creates chaos by producing a legion of mischievous monsters.
Much of the film rests on what Hanks can deliver as an actor, and here he does not disappoint.
Several months after his country's entry into World War Two, an inexperienced US Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack.
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