The combination of a hard-hitting expose of Thai prostitution with genre horror may sound intriguing on paper, but the result emerges as an oil and water mix.
Thai country girl uses terror magic in Bangkok go-go bar.
Everything from the appearance of the creatures to the often surprisingly visceral gore is shot in quite a straightforward way, which somehow gets under your skin.
A woman finds herself caught up in ritual sacrifice.
Padre Padrone is a film of careful balances, setting raw nature against refined culture, offering family drama that grips from start to finish without once resorting to sentimentality.
Surviving an abusive childhood in Sardinia with sheep.
Pageant is a little more mainstream than might have been hoped, but it's still an entertaining portrait of some wonderfully larger than life characters, a mind blowing amount of effort and an incredible desire to win.
An in-depth look at drag queens in preparation for the Miss Gay America.
Given that his documentary only runs 90 minutes, Rossi barely has time to do more than scratch the surface of these momentous issues facing the newspaper industry.
A documentary about the famous US newspaper and the crisis facing modern journalism.
There is a great story in here somewhere.. but the combination of the two narratives - presented as tonally and visually distinct from one another - does not entirely work.
Gothic horror entwining the story in 1930s Catalonia of a group of children who cannot feel pain, with a man searching for his biological parents in the present day.
If you're a romance fan, take a big supply of tissues.
A man cursed to roam the seas forever can escape only through the love of a woman willing to die for him, but in his brief period of shore leave the woman he falls for is a socialite with a string of admirers and apparently no feelings...
As the film progresses, Seidl allows scenes to play out longer than expected, as they enter that uncomfortable territory (for protagonists, audiences and censor boards alike) of total unpredictability.
A cautionary tale about European female sex tourists on the beaches of Kenya.
His [Abu-Assad's] controversial decision to place melodrama before morality, while allowing Paradise Now to transcend its hefty (and painfully current) ethical baggage, also allows us to empathise with its conflicted protagonist.
Palestinian thriller on the explosive subject of suicide bombers
If your experience of Japanese anime has so far been confined to bubblegum tweenies and manga mechas, then Kon's altogether more adult animation will come as a real revelation.
A surreal investigation of a closed society's dark psychic underbelly.
