Treading a fine line between farce and analytical drama, director Jon Cvack steers the film past many potential pitfalls, producing something that, whilst not always successful, is certainly distinctive.
When a man wakes up beside a dead sex worker, his self-professed best friend persuades him that they should secretly dispose of her body.
Francis positively relishes taking his viewers on deranged, demonic detours down uncharted byroads of body horror, too, with grand guignol as icky as it is utterly irrational.
Supernatural chiller sees a camping trip to the outback turn sour.
The clashes between characters give this film plenty of catalysts for interesting discussions, and it is refreshing that these discussions are not framed as anything other than three young adults connecting.
A Tourette's sufferer goes ona road trip with his doctor and a couple of other troubled youngsters.
The girls’ foray into swapping breasts for machine guns and fingers for knives strains for an eternally peaking crescendo which sees plot and humour sacrificed for wanton lunacy.
Sibling rivals opt for surgery in the battle for their master's attention.
Robots has a glittering voice cast and astonishing CGI animation and yet is over endowed with too much of this, too much of that and too much of everything.
Animated idealism meets corporate ruthlessness in Rivet Town.
After a slow and largely laugh-free start, this does build up a reasonable head of steam, with enough smart lines and well-timed physical comedy to keep its head above water.
The original drummer of an Eighties hair metal band gets a second chance at stardom when his nephew’s group makes it big.
The spirit of childhood skips and giggles through The Rocket even though Kim Mordaunt's debut fiction feature touches on deeply disturbing humanitarian issues.
A youngster and his family try to forge a new life after being displaced by a dam.
Rocky Balboa does not disappoint when it comes to the staples of a Rocky picture - the hard-earned training (raw egg chugging and knuckle meat-tenderisers are welcome, present and correct) and thrilling fight footage
Sylvester Stallone's prize fighter returns to the ring.
In truth, it's all rather more miss than hit, but it's very hard not to have respect for Ryan Denmark's imagination - and when his flights of fancy score, they are complete slam dunks.
There's an innocence abour Ron even when he is at his most obnoxious, and his dogged spirit in the face of persistent injuries, seemingly endless humiliations and Angela upping the ante is endearing.
A failed stunt makes Ron an internet celebrity overnight, but his girlfriend still doesn't fancy him. The only thing that could change that, she says, is if he sleeps with a famous actress.
The film stands as a fascinating time capsule, the ridiculous nature of the period's housing policy imbuing the second half with a gnawing tension that keeps the viewer thoroughly gripped to the very end.
A newly-wed couple attempt to build themselves a home overnight.
A visually inventive, genuinely moving, yet understated drama of captivity and hope, which also sings a quiet tribute to the power of creative maternal impulses.
A five-year-old discovers there may be more to the world than the single room in which he has been raised.
Beginning with acts of rape and murder, Wojtek Smarzowski immediately sets the tone for his hard-hitting period drama which although containing a carefully wrought love story, never romanticises the past.
A relationship develops between a widow and a former soldier in post-war Poland.
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