Xolalpa’s slow, patient character study reveals the ceaseless, grinding effects of a grief which Dolores is unwilling to let go of – the last vital remnant of her maternal love
A hospice nurse takes care of terminally ill patients all while trying to move past the tragedy of having lost her daughter in a school shooting.
This is the kind of film that could easily be a disaster, but despite obvious budgetary limitations it acquits itself well.
Wet Dreams, a middle-aged male stripper group, has hit rock bottom when they get an offer of a mysterious gig that might change everything. What they don't know is that they have become caught up in a plot to raise a murderous witch from the dead.
Miiku Sakanishi’s gentle debut builds a movingly humanistic consideration of family and community relationships, while also musing on our connection to photography itself.
A man goes to help his photographer father-in-law, who has fractured his leg, in a rural town, keeping in touch with his wife and young daughter via spontaneous phone snaps and videos.
The memories have the vibrant immediacy of teenage energy and are treated by Hadjithomas and her co-director Khalil Joreige in the same spirited fashion.
Three generations of women in Canada, deal with memories of their homeland of Lebanon.
There are some good stories - various myths around the filming of Alien are punctured, but one of the film's central theses is a mythological one.
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien – rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O’Bannon and HR Giger.
While an impressive exercise of modern horror craftsmanship that could easily flirt with a cult film status, Men’s overcrowded and facile symbolism is as transparent as it is confusing, leaving much to be desired from an otherwise very good storyteller.
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, a woman retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.
There are a lot of characters, but they gradually flow together to build a fractured patchwork of what it means to be a veteran of messy conflict on any side.
When, less than two decades since the war ended in Yugoslavia, a diverse group of veterans gathers at a remote mountain hotel to undergo days of therapy, it’s hard to expect absolute harmony.
The martial artists are highly competent at what they do. They display an exceptional level of skill in fight sequences and other stunt work. Unfortunately their acting ability is almost nonexistent.
Whether you’re a fan of the company’s work specifically or simply interested in the history of cinema, this portrait of its longest-lasting partnership will delight and entertain you.
The story of cinema's longest lasting partnership.
This is a film full of notions about the way dreams shape our personal stories as much as being shaped by them.
The story of Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, who enters a round the world competition in the Sixties in an unfinished boat and decides to fake his journey to save face and impending bankruptcy.
This is a romcom in which the comedy frequently comes at the expense of the romance.
A naive heiress is swept off her feet by a Chicago newspaper reporter and aspiring playwright. They marry
in haste and repent at leisure as success tempts him to stray and she retaliates by declaring that theirs will be an open marriage.
Bowie and Sakamoto acquit themselves well, their otherworldly appearance and rougher edges in acting ability feel quite appropriate for the characters they are playing - outsiders.
After a lot of scene setting, the film delivers, almost out of nowhere, an intense and fully committed mythology which takes night scenes already set against a pitch black sky to a still darker place.
A young woman goes searching for her missing artist father. Her journey takes her to a strange Californian seaside town governed by a mysterious undead cult.
With a good measure of comedy to balance out the drama, Metal Heart is a sweet film that might perhaps be a little too forgiving at the end but is true to its characters throughout.
Dublin goth Emma is the guiding spirit of the band Yeast Infections. Chantal is bubbly and always blogging. When their parents head off on holiday, a summer of bitter rivalry, chasing dreams and facing reality sets the siblings on a collision course.
To demonstrate so clearly that an intersex body can be a source of pleasure and joy, in a context shaped not by pornographers but by intersex people themselves, is nothing short of revolutionary.
An intersex boy comes of age and explores the ambiguities of his identity and desires.
For a short time, this cinematic jewel lets us travel back to when the migration of birds was a mystery to man.
Beatriz and Henrique fall in love and get married. He goes to sea while she raises their inquisitive children. The director brings her family's story to the screen.
The restored footage adds much more to the experience that is Metropolis.
In a future city strictly divided into rulers and ruled, a rich young man falls in love with a revolutionary from the forbidden depths. Reconstructed and restored and back on re-release this autumn.
