As an actor, Costner plays his trademark laid-back, soppy-hearted loner, offering nothing new. As a director, he is so casual with detail he might not have been there.
A man restarts the postal service in post-apocalyptic America.
A true story about a gay boy growing up in the collapsing USSR, his courageous mail-order bride mother, and their adventurous escape to Seattle in the Nineties.
The landscape within which all this takes place is spectacular: a richly imagined, fully fledged fantasy world.
One Halloween night, a deliveryman accidentally drops the heart he is supposed to deliver. He cannot find the heart in the smoke and gives up. The heart continues to beat where it fell in the town of chimneys.
Originally made for a Danish audience, Powder Keg has a lot going for it, including an attention to detail and a nuanced approach to the core issues which is hard to find elsewhere, but it suffers somewhat in translation.
A film about the events surrounding the terrorist attacks in Copenhagen on February 14th and 15th 2015.
As a director, Faith excels at building up atmosphere.
In 1973, a young nurse is forced to work the night shift in a crumbling hospital as striking miners switch off the power across Britain. Inside the walls lurks a terrifying presence that threatens to consume her and everyone around her.
Taking care of business is rarely as emotional, but it's part of Power Ballad's exploration of authenticity.
When a past-his-prime wedding singer meets a fading boy-band star during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session, but then the former star turns one of the wedding singer’s songs into the hit that reignites his career.
While much of the visual humour works perfectly thanks to good timing and framing, some of the running gags seem more suited to a sprint than the marathon Rejtman takes them on.
A yoga teacher finds himself grappling with life and bad luck after his splits from his wife.
Although filling the watcher with the same sort of outrage that inspired the women to stand up and be counted, this is, at heart, a testimony to the power of solidarity and sisterhood through a single purpose.
The story of the Liberian women who came together to bring peace to their country.
Independently produced on a budget of just £16,000, it’s really an astonishing achievement.
After an impulsive one-night stand leads to an unexpected pregnancy, two flatmates must confront who they are, and who they want to be, before the baby arrives.
Ultimately too ambitious for its own good, Presence nevertheless showcases some interesting work.
Two young business partners are invited to a week-long yachting voyage with a potential investor. At night, Jennifer's dreams begin to bleed into reality as the others realise that Jennifer may have unknowingly brought something on-board.
Rather than an expose of the dark side of live streaming, or focusing on its superstars, Zhu gravitates towards marginalized voices: those in rural areas, the disabled, single mothers.
A documentary portrait of Chinese society by focusing on the most marginalised - a chain-smoking burn victim, an uncoordinated street dancer, a man with growth-hormone deficiency, a cattle farm worker, and many others.
Watching Chamisa himself walk through crowds will set your nerves on edge as Neilsson’s camera reveals just how vulnerable he is.
Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as "The Crocodile." The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition – how do they interpret principles of democracy in discourse and in practice?
Nayyef and Qasem are marvellous, completely natural and without a hint of self-consciousness.
While people struggle daily to survive under sanctions in Saddam's Iraq, nine-year-old Lamia must use her wits to gather ingredients for a cake to celebrate President Saddam Hussein's birthday or face the consequences.
There’s a lot of culture clash comedy here but the film doesn’t hinge on it. More important is the way that Lindsay and Jack find themselves culturally overwhelmed.
Jack and Lindsay are invited on a getaway trip with affluent strangers: down the rabbit hole, and into the most unhinged weekend of their lives. Can their relationship survive?
Hirsch, who is nothing if not prolific, hasn’t had great luck with his recent roles, but dominates most of this film and gets to remind us what he’s capable of.
A young couple is compelled to leave their Christian missionary station in the Kalahari Desert after being threatened with death by an extremist militant gang. After crashing their aircraft they must battle man and beast for their lives.
I didn't go in with high expectations but I was thrilled.
Home from college, Lucy reunites with family including pet chimp Ben. Ben contracts rabies during a pool party and turns aggressive. Lucy and her friends barricade themselves in the pool, devising ways to survive the vicious chimp.
It harks back to the matinee series which used to run in cinemas in pre-television days, and to the excitement of living in a world which still held undiscovered lands.
A civilisation lost in time invaded one million years ago.
A good choice for viewers between the ages of about five and eight, this is a film which delivers on action and attitude without ever losing its innately gentle quality.
A dragon’s adopted daughter befriends a human princess, and must contend with a frog-witch’s curse.
The main source of tension here is between the two girls and their one-upmanship is well handled but even older child audiences are likely to find the general lack of any sort of danger a bit of a turn off.
A young princess with a secret gift is put to the test.
In this way, Miyazaki avoids any simplistic 'message', preferring to present a more complicated dialectic on the environmental difficulties that continue to 'curse' us to this day.
A prince becomes caught up in a battle between a mining town and a forest.
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