There is never much sense of hope in the film, only a brash defiance that sometimes, for all its ugliness, verges on the heroic.
Four teenage patients escape from a mental institution, kidnap a nurse and take her on a road trip to hell in this prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Cage and Shue transform [their characters] into believable people you feel you could talk with - transcending the usual boundaries of the screen and your heart.
A sensational, if doomed romance between a prostitute and a suicidal drunk.
The idea of a world in which characters may find more comfort in alienation than connection is something that speaks as much to our society as it reflects the universe of 1960s Italy.
Legacy is a brave and curious film, taking a popular premise and turning it on its head.
Three French friends traveling in Georgia are horrified and intrigued when they encounter a man who is scheduled to be killed in an attempt to end an ancient blood feud.
The fast pacing allied to some dark humour and a few absurd moments certainly makes for entertaining viewing, even though over time you keep waiting for the film to hit some deeper note.
Fortunately the elaborate back-story is more than a springboard for the action sequences - which are some of the very best you’re likely to see - and actually stands up as comic glue for the proceedings - even if some of the humour is lost in translation.
Once the action starts in earnest and the stunt doubles do their thing, the film is entertaining enough, although when Zorro leaps from a high rock onto the roof of a moving train, you do worry about the horse.
Sword-fighting sequel, sees
Zorro take on a racist preacher.
The thriller elements are, on the whole, so meagre and limply staged that the film is better seen as an examination of divinely dysfunctional families.
A fallen angel tries to save humanity from the wrath of God.
Christopher Egan's achingly bad condescension to Hollywood's stupidest stereotype of the Englishman would be better suited to a Zucker brothers parody.
A romantic young American becomes determined to help an ageing Englishwoman find her long lost love in Italy.
The quality of each piece of testimony is left for the viewer to assess, and those who come to the film knowing nothing are likely to find their impressions of some the participants shifting over the course of it.
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
Comedy aside, the story hinges on cunning plans and double bluffs that, when they work, are very effective indeed.
Jiang Wen's rumbustious comedy-adventure, set in the 1920s, is an Eastern Western. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You and Jiang himself star as the three unscrupulous men vying for control of Goose Town: fun performances, and lots of flying bullets.
Dickson Leach makes good use of the countryside setting, to suggest the additional pressures that exist for farming families while allowing the environment to provide poetic interludes.
A woman returns to her family farm after her brother's suicide.
