The musical work within the film is its greatest asset so one wonders if certain scenes ended up being edited to suit it, rather than the other way around.
When a composer is tasked with finishing her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing the music could have deadly consequences.
Basing his character largely on Keith Richards and looking like a refugee from Adam Ant's Dog Eat Dog video, Johnny Depp crashes through the film, chewing up scenery and spitting it out with aplomb.
Epic romp with supernatural pirates and Johnny Depp mincing about with an Essex accent
Visually, as well as in certain performances, the final instalment of Disneyworld Goes Hollywood has a healthy infusion of surrealism and a sense of humour.
Action packed finale to the supernatural swashbuckling saga from Disneyworld.
This film is worth seeing for curiosity value more than anything else and also for the cinematography which depicts the hard life of the coal miner particularly well.
A high-class "countess" helps two coal miners make a mint... but what is the price of success? Out to own now as part of Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection 18-disc box set.
Yannis Drakopoulos is on fine form in the central role and there are some great supporting performances.
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
It’s an uneven film, emerging as a series of comedy skits before gradually melding them into a coherent story.
It’s a Friday night and two college students plan to do drugs and order pizza. But when the home-made drug they ingest turns out to be wilder than expected, the simple journey down two flights of stairs becomes a mind-bogglingly transformative quest.
Derek Cianfrance's The Place Beyond the Pines, tells stories of fatherhood with a fine-tuned generosity, as haunted men cycle through patterns spinning out of control.
On discovering that he has a baby son, a circus motorcycle stunt rider approaches responsibility by robbing banks, but runs afoul of a corrupt politician.
In the absence of script and character development he relies on things like the heavy use of a blue filter and the increasing volume of Handel's Sarabande form Suite No4 in D Minor in a bid to shore up the mood.
Considering the dark past of Chile's Colonia Dignidad through the eyes of a child.
The film is unashamedly intellectual and yet amuses itself with its characters' overly enthusiastic attempts to understand everything around them as deeply as possible, often missing what's going on on the surface.
A young novelist and her cinematographer boyfriendare waylaid by a snowstorm on their way to visit a friend and are taken in by the kindly yet enigmatic Clip, who puts them up for the night. But a discovery months later recasts events.
The characters may be variously plagued by debt, illness and emotional strain but they also prove there is conoslation in friendship and that a single shared chocolate can be more important and touching than a thousand words.
Five people struggle to get by in the tough economic conditions around Barcelona.
Borrowing tropes from horror, the film adds an uncanny undercurrent to its drama.
At an all-boys water polo camp, a socially anxious 12-year-old is pulled into a cruel tradition targeting an outcast with an illness they call “The Plague.” But as the lines between game and reality blur, he fears the joke might be hiding something real.
Blyth and Tovey have chemistry to burn and Emmi generates pressure cooker tension as the past and many faces of the present prove to be just a synapse away in the kaleidoscope of Lucas’ mind.
A promising undercover officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men defies orders when he falls in love with a target.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is an eternal tribute to how great Martin used to be before he sold himself out to family movies and how wonderful Candy was as an actor and a person.
Steve Martin and John Candy try in vain to get home in time for Thanksgiving.
Racial discrimination, the fragile relationship between faith and science, post-Cold War anti-nuclear damnation… the script misses no opportunity to use an ape society for clever analogy.
Principally, Gibbs is concerned with the ways in which the wind and solar energy industries fall short of providing the clean solution most people believe them to represent.
The story of the environmental movement, why it matters and why it might not always be what it appears to be.
With such complex moral issues at its heart and such a weight of emotion, it isn’t difficult for the film to maker an impression, but the nuance established by the actors is what really sells it.
Just after the end of the Second World War, a tormented Holocaust survivor infiltrates a group of others who are planning to avenge themselves on Germany with a devastating terrorist attack.
Making a film like this in the US today is risky, and cinemas showing it will face risks, too. Nevertheless, they persist.
A hidden grassroots organisation doggedly fights to expand access to abortion pills across the United States keeping hope alive during a global pandemic and the fall of Roe v Wade.
Like fellow Frenchman Quentin Dupieux, Meurisse has an enjoyably devil-may-care attitude for the most part although he feels almost like Dupieux’s evil twin as he begins to stray, first, into Farrelly Brothers’ territory, and then something altogether more violent.
A case of mistaken identity fuels a twisted satire.
This is the playground as a warzone, where the sandpit might, indeed, be as deep as the sea and hold dead bodies and where adult authority might only make things worse.
A little girl faces a moral dilemma after she sees her brother being bullied.
This is film full of red herrings and sly questions.
In a remote Scottish castle, an irreverent writer faces terrifying consequences when his daughter falls prey to an evil curse lurking within the walls.
This is a film which might sound cloying sentimental, yet is anything but.
Architect Alicia, a Mexican in Panama, can’t quite seem to fit in anywhere. The only constant in her life is the 14-year-old boy Alexis, who looks after the cars parked on her street... but tragedy is about to strike.
The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain isn't worth leaving home for, and to be honest I'm not sure it's worth any time on your sofa either.
Three friends realise that they don't like their life trajectory, so set off in search of a golden treasure that is rumored to be buried on the nearby mountain.
Having laid the foundations for a tense, realistic thriller, using documentary footage wherever possible, Sean Penn blows it with unnecessary camera tricks.
A retired cop investigates the mystery of a child murder, linking it with others, even though officially the case is closed.
The standout is Byrd, who delivers compelling work throughout.
Rejected by the main campus fraternities, three young men accept a beautiful woman's invitation to undergo a hazing experience at a remote woodland mansion, only to find that their lives are on the line.
After a bus accident, Ming Ze awakens from a coma to discover that his mind now shares the consciousness of four fellow passengers – all of them dead and all serial killing suspects – and sets out to prove his own innocence.
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