The whole thing is shot with verve by the ever-reliable Douglas Slocombe, who captures runaway train scenes with fluidity and character business with care.
After the closure of a line is announced, the local community make a bid to run it themselves.
If the phrase "it's nice to be nice" took on film form, it would probably look a lot like Together Together.
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realise this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
The action in the film is impressive throughout but is never allowed to overwhelm it.
A rookie detective from Tokyo’s red-light district must team up with a counterpart from Seoul with equally questionable practices, to track down a dangerous criminal spreading terror across Japan, Korea, and the Philippines.
A slice of cannibal horror with a distinctly soapy aftertaste.
A sketchy ghoul named Gourmet invites a college student named Kaneki to dine with him at a special restaurant where the young man may find himself on the menu.
A rounded, satisfactory introduction which will immediately enrich your understanding of many things you see day to day.
Based on a major exhibition at the Ashmolean in Oxford, Tokyo Stories spans 400 years of incredibly dynamic art - ranging from the delicate woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, to Pop Art posters, contemporary photography, manga, film, and brand-new artworks.
Much of the humour in the film depends on contrasting viewers' expectations of rural life with the paraphernalia of Sixties spy movies and Seventies cop shows.
A toll booth operator's secret past comes back to haunt him.
At the heart of it is the complex relationship between mother and son.
Suellen, a toll booth attendant, realises she can use her job to raise some extra money illegally. But this is only for a noble cause: to send her son to an expensive gay conversion workshop led by a renowned foreign priest.
Though aspects of its story stretch credulity even within the bounds of fantasy and it is at times spectacularly silly, it is delivered with rare style and panache.
A group of people accidentally stumble upon the graves of 13th Century Templars, who quested for eternal life by drinking human blood and committing sacrifices.
Time is a portal and apocalypse a staple of CGI-based futuristic movies, except you have to work hard to understand the significance of a tomboy and a pissed off inventor in the robotic new world of President Nix
Writer/director Willard Carroll manages to convey the supernatural rather well in this low-budget British film, but lacks the imagination to make anything of it.
Boy plays with ghosts in the garden of a Victorian mansion.
Longstanding fans will enjoy her extensive contributions, as considered and witty as ever.
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout her literary career. Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, history, America and the human condition.
A hugely ambitious first feature from director Thales Banzai, Tony Odyssey repeatedly bites off more than it can chew, but it has lots of great ideas, both conceptual and visual.
Tony and his best friend, Ivy, decide to rob the bar where he works to steal a new drug that will take them on a journey to meet God.
Imagine the worst children's TV programme you've ever seen. Now remove any residual plot, replace the professional crew with children and halve the effects budget.
A wayward tooth fairy accidentally jeopardises Christmas and sets off to salvage it with the help of two children.
A rare example of something which might entertain brave six-year-olds and wistful teenagers alike.
A rebellious tooth fairy and a goblin scientist fall in love, threatening centuries of tradition, while befriending a troll and being stalked by a scheming spider.
While exploitation is expertly outlined, the directors are never exploitative themselves in the way it is depicted.
In Belgium today, a young boy and an adolescent girl who have travelled alone from Africa pit their invincible friendship against the difficult conditions of their exile.
The script is lean, the sword edges keen and the characters mean.
A Japanese puppeteer's daughter gets caught up with criminals when their show crosses paths with a crime gang, led by Sugarman and his son Little Sugar.
Sagal throws herself into the role with such force that’s a wonder the screen doesn’t break.
The story of a country music duo who seek out the private mansion of their idol and end up in a twisted series of horrors which forces them to confront the limits they'd go to for their dreams.
It’s the situation that delivers the strangeness – and charm – mediated by Dudley’s performance as a woman who is self-deprecating and messy but lively enough to root for.
Two codependent best friends become addicted to the heroin-like touch of an alien narcissist who may or may not be trying to take over the world.
The driving narrative has been parked in a garage, covered in a tarp and forgotten about.
Protection money is 'owed' to a gangster. A disastrous attempt to win the money in a kickboxing tournament shames kung-fu. Two students of the art travel to Bangkok to regain its honour.
Tower Heist hangs on its fast pacing, its glossy look and the performances of the actors.
When a group of hard working guys find out they've fallen victim to a wealthy business man's Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.
Everything the British Empire once stood for is here - grit, courage, fair play, indomitability, initiative and lips that stay stiff without artificial aids.
Drama, based on true story, capturing the heroism of British women during the Japanese occupation of Malaya in World War Two.
The imagery is almost dream-like, feverish and intense without straying away from reality.
Two teenage girls, eager to escape from the bleakness of their industrial town, form an unexpected bond at a local modelling school that pushes their bodies to the limit.
The cheesy subtext is obscured by gross-out verbal and visual display, which wears down resistance to the basic message of wholesome optimism that many teenagers would not be keen to admit.
Transformed by toxic waste, a monster wreaks havoc among spoiled high school pupils.
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