A Journey In Spring is one of the most impressive contributions to date in the new Taiwanese cinema.
An old man has depended on his wife over the years, when she suddenly passes away, he puts her into an old freezer and goes on living a seemingly peaceful life. But the arrival of his son and daughter-in-law brings change.
Clavellino's approach is unsentimental and all the more believable for that.
Leonor wants to leave home, but she doesn’t dare to tell her mother. Estrella doesn’t want her to leave but is unable to keep her by her side either. Mother and daughter will have to face this new stage in life in which the world they share starts to fall apart.
The main object of Llorca's ire is not his characters - it's clear he has a soft spot for them, as soon will we - but the rather the vacuous nature of parts of the Spanish art scene.
A musician famous in the 80s thanks to a song, his best friend, an apparently famous painter, and the crossovers between two worlds.
It is not so much individual people who cause the problems but rather the constricting cultural circumstances that dictate everyone must play their allocated role.
As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
The director does achieve some quiet drama - a kiss on a cheek, an attempt at breast feeding - but elsewhere, it feels as though a committee was insisting on moments of 'quirky humour'.
A woman planning to give up her baby finds herself on an oddball roadtrip with a 12-year-old.
Plemons’s performance captures the unease and guilt Mitchell feels, while reminding us that the agent is also putting on a performance during his meetings with O’Neal.
The story of FBI informant William O’Neal, who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther party when J Edgar Hoover feared charismatic leader Chairman Fred Hampton would emerge as a Black Messiah.
Religion can often become the whipping boy for problems, especially in the Middle East, but Kohn's documentary shows how the real issue lies in the sexist traditions not Islam.
Profile of Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East.
Intriguing in its ideas but a little heavy-handed in the application.
An Egyptian gay couple return from the US to Egypt for a family emergency. When they fall prey to witchcraft intended as punishment for their homosexual sins, one of them falls into religious terror and exposes his unhealed past.
There's layer upon layer of clever artifice here, yet the result is something that feels fresh and sexy.
Puppeteers Judy and Punch are trying to resurrect their marionette show. The show is a hit due to Judy's superior puppeteering but Punch's driving ambition and penchant for whisky lead to a inevitable tragedy that Judy must avenge.
This is a consistently interesting film and a good exercise in navigating historical narratives, even if it’s not exactly what its UK title might have viewers expecting.
This film traces the saga of Julian Assange, a contemporary icon of the right to information, whose recent release from prison has reignited the global debate on press freedom.
The title might sound risque but the end product is as safe, cosy and unoriginal as a Now That's What I Call Music Christmas gift.
Annie is the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of a record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release leads to an encounter with the elusive rocker himself.
The director shows how it’s not just Julie’s tennis skills that have been groomed by the coach but large aspects of her life.
As the star player at an elite tennis academy, Julie’s life revolves around the game she loves. When her coach falls under investigation and is suddenly suspended, all of the club's players are encouraged to speak up. But Julie decides to keep quiet…
This play - and this production - belongs to Brutus, however, played by Harriet Walter with a distilled ferocity that brings some of Ian McKellen's best Shakespearean work to mind.
All-female adaptation of the play, set in a women's prison.
Entertaining, adventurous and funny, certainly not a mental whiteout as expected
Four teenagers are swept into a dangerous jungle with the help of a magic board game where they become different grown up people and are chased by big creatures and bad men.
It's a far from perfect film, but it's a lot better than the critical consensus suggests, and at the heart of it is a fascinating character study.
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated by carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That’s when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park’s new flagship attraction...
This adaptation of Sean O’Casey’s play about a Dublin family trying to get by might best be described as one for completists, in terms of Alfred Hitchock’s body of work.
A Dublin family on the breadline think their luck may be about to change when they hear about an inheritance.
In contrast to the visions his work gave us, now used in the background of many a documentary, the latter part of this one is very traditionally constructed, mingling direct-to-camera interview with still photographs from his chaotic years.
Steve ‘Spaz’ Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs in Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority may have cost him the recognition he deserved.
So riddled with logic gaps, dumb character decisions and simple confusion about how we should view the entire conceit, that the actual genetic recreation of dinosaurs from 65 million years ago starts looking believable in comparison.
When Owen and Claire return to Isla Nublar, they stumble on a conspiracy that threatens the Earth.
That so much of the product placement is different kinds of candy is what's going on here: it's more of the same, maybe with one new ingredient, but familiar, safely packaged, brightly coloured, and quick.
An expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
Both sides of the political spectrum have arguments about how the law and justice are not the same. While Callahan and his .44 were making that case one bullet at a time, Juror #2 is a lot slower, with plenty more sitting down.
A family man, serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma when he realises that he could sway the jury verdict and potentially convict - or free - the wrong person.
Davis captures not just the emotional turbulence of Bunny's life but the sheer physicality of it.
Bunny, a woman at the outskirts of society, fights to be reunited with her children. When her teenage niece needs help, Bunny takes her under her wing, and together, they make a stand against the cards they’ve been dealt.
All its genre elements are the neat packaging for some grim state-of-the-nation commentary, showing an aspect of Iranian society that is seldom explored on film.
The heart of the film is a performance from Harry Gilby, in a feature debut - ably managing to convey not only the struggles but the strengths of young Charlie in the face of any number of vicissitudes.
The life of a young football prodigy is turned upside down after they come out as transgender.
As well as having an eye for the dramatic – such as yards of cloth tumbling from a height or flames licking up a wall – Yimou also has a way of conveying the emotion of a scene with incredible brevity.
The wife of a brutal dye house owner embarks on an illicit affair with her husband's nephew.
It is always wonderful when a film about a writer you admire produces sentences - be it in dialogue, commentary or excerpts you overlooked or forgot from the published texts - that are so poignant in the here and now and feel brand new.
What is most surprising about this film is not the dilligence with which Sundberg and Stern set about following the course of Rivers through a year of her life - although that is certainly in evidence - but how incredibly welcoming she is.
Honest and open portrait of the groundbreaking comedienne.
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