Kim and Lee layer different accounts to build up a picture of key events as seen from multiple angles.
A documentary about how women got together to assert their rights after facing exploitation in the burgeoning Korean garment industry and at the sewing factories of Pyeonghwa Market in Seoul.
The joy that Liu finds in the learning process is infectious and will itself give many viewers a new respective on the subject.
To right the wrongs of his all-American sex education, a 36-year-old goes on a quest to uncover naked truths and hard facts - no matter how awkward it gets.
It's easy to see why the central idea here was attractive to a relatively inexperienced director who wanted to get noticed but one can't help but think that it would have been a much better film if he'd approached it later in his career.
When a junkie wakes up covered in blood and discovers that there's a warrant out for his arrest, he turns to his psychiatrist older brother for help and the two set out for the Canadian border.
Going along with a bonkers plot and lashings of melodramatic confrontations between the characters is a hell of a lot easier to do when you have a well-done Wuxia spectacular to delight your eyes.
The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it.
A young woman decides to return to Beirut to see her estranged dying father after 25 years. Between the struggle to forgive him and building up the courage to face him, she discovers the heart of her homeland through the people she meets.
Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.
A woman caught up in the Troubles is forced to become a informant for MI5.
It’s all very handsomely shot, with a feisty soundtrack and ebullient sense of humour, but too often it feels as if it’s just being quirky for the sake of it.
Gato's safe, isolated world is throw into chaos when his teenage daughter gets a mobile phone and makes herself visible to the world.
By centring the relationship between the brothers, the film is able to challenged deep rooted notions about masculinity from a perspective which is itself rooted in the traditional.
When a Deaf young man asks his estranged older brother to join him in a musical contest, this blue collar worker must dust off his musical chops in order to be his little brother's voice, so that the world can finally hear him.
The actors do their best but Lou is far more interested in how rain looks blazing in the light of car headlights or how a fight scene might benefit from some nice pirouettes than he is in developing character.
After a property boss falls to his death, a rookie cop investigates.
At each point when one might think that the key to this fascinating subject has been found, another door is opened, leading to yet more unexplored angles.
Oxford professor Patricia Kingori uncovers Kenya's hidden essay mills where highly educated yet
underemployed writers produce academic papers for wealthy Western
students.
With a nice supporting turn from Becki Hayes as the local sheriff, this is a film whose secrets lie as much in what we don’t see as what we do.
A young couple leave behind their party lifestyle and find tranquility in an isolated rental cabin only to realise they have checked into a sinister nightmare as the locals reveal the true reason for their solitude.
Bojanov draws not only a sensitive portrait of the bond between the two women but also exposes the dyn.amics of a deeply conservative and religious society
Love story between two women who face a struggle against a patriarchal society.
Shaolin Martial Arts is characterised by Chang Cheh's trademark use of fast pans, tilts, pushes and pulls, superbly choreographed but overlong fight scenes and some fairly gentle comedy.
When the ruling dynasty in China sends soldiers to destroy the Shaolin Temple, students use their martial arts to defend the school.
Those who struggle with eating disorders themselves will find it easy to relate to but in places, very hard to watch.
Out in public, Ivy is a New Orleans lounge singer trying to make a name for herself. When alone, though, she suffers from a terrifying eating disorder. And the more she hides her struggles, the stronger her inner demons become.
The sense of hopefulness in people’s urge to continue and to rebuild shines through but this film also looks the lasting more negative impact of war unflinchingly in the eye.
Documentary about the people living in war-ravaged Bucha.
Moody images don't make for high drama and even at a trim 87 minutes, the story feels stretched.
After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, 16-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
While a rumour about the presence of sharks in a small beach town distracts residents, 14-year-old Rosina begins to feel an instinct to shorten the distance between her body and Joselo's.
It will not win any awards for its hammy acting or merely adequate effects, but again, these shortcomings seem an integral part of the overall desired effect.
Nunn understands that it’s the threat of the shark, as much as its actual attacks, which inspire terror.
A group of friends enjoying spring break steal a couple of jetskis, racing them out to sea, ending up in a horrific head-on collision. They struggle to find a way back to shore with a badly injured friend while in the waters below, predators lurk.
Where the episodes work is when they have a driving, kinetic energy about them. When they don't it's repetitious loop.
A collection of interconnected stories that follow the mysteries surrounding awareness, intention, desire, free will, and the uncanny nature of consciousness.
The character design, already well established by the TV show, is crisp, the stop-motion animation as ever is lovely, and the depth of detail in the sets is great.
When Shaun the Sheep takes a day off to have fun, things quickly go awry, forcing him to lead his friends on an urgent rescue mission to the city.
The animation is charming but not as inventive as that in Shaun's earlier adventures.
When an alien with amazing powers crash lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun the Sheep goes on a mission to shepherd the intergalactic visitor home before a sinister organisation can capture her.
It's easy to forget how violent and depressing the story is and it's only by evoking a powerful sense of horror that Darabont's masterful screenplay earns its climactic feeling of release.
The anguish of a young banker, incarcerated for life in a notoriously repressive high security jail.
What really drives the film is the quietly powerful central performance.
Shayda, an Iranian mother, finds refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her six-year-old daughter. Over Persian New Year, they take solace in Nowruz rituals and new beginnings, but when her estranged husband re-enters their lives, Shayda’s path to freedom is jeopardised.
Sabatella's film makes its central location surprisingly effective.
Stan lives with his abusive grandfather and tries to protect his best friend from high school bullies. When he discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside his tool shed, he tries to battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers it and develops a far more sinister plan.
