Even in the cheapest of zombie films, human bodies have never come apart so easily, nor contained such an abundance of blood. It explodes across the screen at frequent intervals, each one more spectacular than the last.
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.
The simple search and rescue plot is more than adequate an adventure in which to indulge the antics of our original toys, and allows space to throw in a few choice newcomers.
The gang go on a road trip with a new toy named Forky.
Celebrity docu-portraits like this are ten a penny; what makes this one different is the extraordinary story and the intensity with which it's delivered.
Meet the man behind the Jason Voorhees and Victor Crowley masks.
Filmed over seven seasons, the co-directors make time tactile.
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.
The subject is dealt with in a very personal way, which is doubtless what many viewers will need in order to start having these conversations themselves.
Maxine Trump turns the camera on herself and her close circle of family and friends as she confronts the idea of not having kids.
What emerges is a carefully calibrated, bleak but elegiac picture of an environment where people are being forced to perform rather than allowed to live on their own terms.
Saina, a herdsman by day and horseback performer by night, is torn between two worlds.
The film is full of careful observations, from the looks on the faces of the villagers to the small things Kiran does as she reclaims her place in the world.
Ranjit, a farmer in India, takes on the fight of his life when he demands justice for his 13-year-old daughter, the victim of a brutal gang rape. His decision to support his daughter is virtually unheard of, and his journey unprecedented.
Tamara Rocca’s beautifully subtle performance of Emilia easily carries the entire film.
A teenager arrives in a village on the border between Brazil and Argentina, looking to find her brother. Her stay at aunt's hostel where people are shaken by the appearance of a mythical beast, will incite an emotional journey of sexual rediscovery.
Former pop star Atsuko Maeda is wonderful in the lead, the perfect match for Kurosawa's style, communicating volumes with the most delicate of expressions.
A Japanese TV host finds a trip to Uzbekistan to shoot an episode of her reality travel show begins to dissolve her chipper persona.
Brunner clearly loves Norman - art for art's sake! - but fails to communicate how others have come to tolerate him.
As a child Norman survived a fire that took the rest of his family. As an adult he is still
struggling with the resulting trauma, and he finds it difficult to start a new life with his
girlfriend and little boy.
A religious Filipino sailor working on a transatlantic ship, discovers a hidden Romanian stowaway. Convinced by a Bible this emigrant has, the sailor starts playing a dangerous game, involving his crew, his faith in God and an innocent man’s life.
Director Martha Stephens uses a palette full of soft browns and pastels designed to evoke nostalgia but shows us plenty of cruelty just under the surface.
Under small town scrutiny, a withdrawn farmer’s daughter forges an intimate friendship with a worldly but reckless new girl in 1960s Oklahoma.
Phantom chimes at night produce an atmosphere that could tumble into horror movie territory, but the real damage is done during the day.
Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Unfortunately, narratively and thematically Traces soon delves into the overly familiar territory of European art house cinema - bourgeoise existential crisis.
A young scientist struggles for meaning after the death of her dad.
Mediated by the music, her behaviour sometimes comes to feel like ritual carried out in service of a mystical bond with the markets.
When a manipulative sociopath discovers her passion for stock market trading, she sets out to conquer the financial world, all from the confines of her basement apartment.
The scoring from Alejandro Otaola reinforces the otherworldly elements but the action feels underpowered by comparison.
Deep in the Mayan jungle, a lawless territory where myths abound, a group of Mexican gum workers cross paths with Agnes, a mysterious young Belizean woman.
The myriad ideas on display are never adequately developed.
The search for the empress's daughter reunites two long lost brothers who grew up on opposite sides of a war and now must choose between family bonds and political alliances.
There are no doubt those who would argue this magic-hour drenched vision of America through the 1900s is a bit too chocolate-boxy for their liking but the weight of tradition can exert an impressive pull and does so here.
Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.
There is a sense that the characters can no more control their own destinies than they can control the relentless progression of the train.
A successful young Jewish Russian businessman meets a captivating nurse in the Polish army on a train-trip to Warsaw and is faced with a life-changing dilemma when he discovers that she's fiercely anti-Semitic.
What could have been just another exercise in nostalgia instead emerges as a valuable picture of a grassroots creative movement.
Rising from the nihilistic ashes of the punk movement in the late 1970s, a fresh crowd of flamboyant fashionistas, who would later be christened the New Romantics, began to materialise on the streets of London.
Boyle makes excellent use of London's roofscape and some dazzling modern apartments whose glass provides both reflective and transparent surfaces which help confuse dream and reality.
An art auctioneer and a hypnotherapist try to recover a stolen painting.
These characters could so easily have been turned into figures of ridicule, but instead they are taken entirely seriously and presented as rounded individuals whose sexuality and gender are only parts of a more multi-faceted identity.
A pre-operative trans woman takes an unexpected journey after discovering she has a son.
The comedy is not funny, the action is exhausting, and by the time its 156 minutes are over, you too will have been transformed into a dead-eyed machine that has lost the power or will to care.
It's fun. It's quite unabashedly so, which is something too many movies based on this sort of property are afraid of.
The untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but who once were friends, bonded like brothers, who changed the fate of Cybertron forever.
Time and place hold both no and every meaning in Christian Petzold's latest film.
Georg flees to Marseilles to escape the German army. Assuming a false identity, he tries to obtain passage on a ship bound for Mexico. But then he meets Marie and his plans change.
Where many other filmmakers who have set films in Syria zoom in on the violence, the directors here concentrate more on the pervasive sense of dread, leaving much to the viewer's imagination.
An exiled Syrian translator returns to his homeland after his brother is taken by security forces.
This starts as a chamber mystery about blackmail where everyone involved is massively aware of genre conventions, and from there furls and folds into something else.
To ensure absolute secrecy for the global publication of a bestseller, nine skilled translators are invited to a remote location. They are given a number of pages to translate each day. There is no contact with the outside world. Then the publisher receives a blackmail demand, threatening to release the manuscript online.
