Managing to be funny, insightful and heartfelt at the same time without slipping into melodrama or cheesiness, Sleepwalk With Me also benefits from an extremely relatable and understated performance from Birbiglia.
A stand-up comedian with a serious sleep disorder reassesses his life.
Made on a minuscule budget the feature took eight years to get from script to screen, one wonders how much more innovative it might have seemed back those eight years.
David Hylan and Raydra Hall's gently paced documentary is very much a small town story, part local history lesson, part memorial to those who didn't make it.
A documentary examining the work and influence of ACT UP Shreveport in the conservative Deep South.
Dooley finds the humour in the sort of relationships only seen in the workplace – where we find ourselves interacting with people we wouldn’t normally socialise with.
Sitcom takes a smokey look at office relationships. Out to own now as part of a box set with Series 1.
The Smuggler blends scatological humour, brutal violence and a few scenes that will put you right off your popcorn into something that is actually rather good.
A naïve drug mule in police custody who’s swallowed heroin pellets fights the urge to expel the evidence as mobsters and corrupt cops close in.
Viewers who are still awake after the first 20 minutes will be bludgeoned into unconsiousness by the the film's heavy-handed morals of unconditional love and family transcending blood relationships.
Gargamel tries to create a new kind of evil smurf.
Whilst it's important that the film itself be enough of a slog to help us identify with Rachel's internal struggle and the physical challenges she faces, it repeats itself too often and relies too much on a charisma its subject doesn't have.
A blind woman takes on the challenge of one of the world's toughest dogsled races.
Oliver Stone takes the story and gives it slick mainstream polish, bringing the issue home in a way that is understandable and urgent, even if his hero ends up seeming almost too good to be true.
The film’s strict and self-imposed limitations mean that the wider forces by which the trio’s gruelling routine is largely governed only seep through here and there.
Sofia, the capital city of Bulgaria, has more than two million inhabitants and only 13 ambulances... this documentary follows one of them.
