After unearthing a gem that controls an evil monster looking to destroy the Universe, a young girl and her brother use it to make him do their bidding.
The characters work well...but there’s never quite enough energy to events.
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by night.
Perhaps there are certain questions that we don't need asked; or if they are to be asked, a certain care in the way they are asked would be helpful.
After a series of humiliations, a young disabled man looking for love decides to transition – but not in the manner you’d expect. Set in an alternative present in which medical procedures are drastically different, the question of what it means to change gender is complicated by the question of what it means to find love when you have a disabled body in an ableist world.
Edwards’ triumph lies in the way he weaves together the nightmarish figure of Punch with the spirit of a town where people tear down their phone mast for fear of being infected by 5G, and where they tear down one another as a matter of course.
Local bogeyman Mr. Punch is stalking the town, and he knows just the way to do it. As the carnage escalates, a group of friends must fight to stay alive in this seaside-gothic, end-of-the-pier slasher.
Although lacking polish and sometimes frustrating in its refusal to volunteer more historical context, either of the country as a whole or the Dayak, this remains an intriguing snapshot.
The film brings home the enormity of the challenge that Cattaneo is up against, not just in terms of money for identification but regarding a general lack of political interest and will in seeing systems better connected.
One forensic pathologist's fight for the rights to identity of the nameless victims she works with.
A young musician, tormented by an abusive situation at home, must contend with a rival singer, a burgeoning romance, and his own dissatisfied band, as his star begins to rise.
This may not be filmmaking in a traditional sense but Azakout's thoughtful voice-over gives the film a shape to go with its immediacy, the effect of the two together profoundly moving.
Experimental documentary captured as Amel Alzakout hoped for rescue after her migrant boat sank in the Med.
Hugely complimented by Smith’s performance and kept in line by an intelligent script from Steve Conrad, don’t be fooled by the trailer, or the poster. There is nothing soft about this.
A failed salesman, with a five-year-old son, struggles to stay afloat while learning to be a stock broker in San Francisco in the Eighties.
Push skips along briskly, making light, incisive work of an area that’s all too often mystified, but it feels like a pilot, rather than a self-contained work.
An international look at the global housing crisis in our cities.
A real return to form, a fully developed story in its own right.
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: he has burned through eight of his nine lives. He sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore them.
As with a jigsaw puzzle, the overall picture may look familiar, but there's a real sense that craftsmanship has gone in to making sure each of the pieces fit satisfyingly together.
Agnes, taken for granted as a suburban mother, discovers a passion for solving jigsaw puzzles which unexpectedly draws her into a new world – where her life unfolds in ways she could never have imagined.
The only thing worse than death for these two is the thought of being left entirely alone.
In the Himalayan Mountain range, a rural village loses its inhabitants to the city’s allure while an elderly couple, Padam Singh and Tulsi, live in desolate isolation.
Rodriguez's up-close, tightly focused direction means our eyes are always drifting toward the shifting focus of the background, hyper-alert for a shimmering Predator cloak.
Parachuted down into an unfamiliar jungle, a group of strangers realise they're being hunted for sport.
The real strengths of this picture lie in the zippy camerawork and asphalt-shredding location work, the sheer speed at which Manhattan moves tangible in every frame.
There are two main problems with this film - firstly, you can see the emotional resolution coming a mile off, secondly, you're not actually sure what's happened by the end of play.
A young mother wakes to find her newly dead husband is alive again. Was it a premonition?
Pretty In Pink is an iconic film which made its mark largely through astute use of music and a real awareness of what was then going on in teenage fashion.
An awkward teenage girl from a poor background finds her life getting complicated when she falls for a boy from a rich one.
This isn't just about how the opinions of others shape us but the "male gaze in my head" and how much our desire to conform comes from within, driven by some amorphous set of rules and a cycle of expectations and reinforcement.
While on the surface Pride And Glory seems to have cynicism coming out of every pore and revolves around the world of dirty officers, at its core it's actually a love-letter to honest cops.
A family of New York cops is caught up in corruption.
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