Though effective in places, it doesn’t have enough going on to justify its running time, mistaking expositional twists for substance, and when it slows, the device at its heart becomes really, really irritating.
A self-centred tattoo artist finds his request for a selfie leads to a dangerous late-night game after a famous client comes to call.
Øie makes good use of the claustrophobia generated by his smoke-filled tunnel, knowing when to keep it simple, and this will doubtless be terrifying to some viewers.
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident.
Like all the best war movies, Tunnels is rooted in the understanding that these young people and first and foremost fighting to stay alive and to protect or avenge their friends.
In 1967, as the Vietnam War raged, a Vietnamese revolutionary guerrilla team became the US military's top target - charged with safeguarding a secret group of intelligence agents at all costs.
A beautifully drawn anime featuring teenage love, angst and manga.
Kaoru Tono heard a rumour: The laws of space and time mean nothing to the Urashima Tunnel. If you find it, walk through and you'll find your heart's desire on the other side...in exchange for years of your own life
Lurid but well substantiated characters along with a well-paced script help turn what could have been just a lot of running about into a film that does a good job of holding audience attention throughout.
In the aftermath of a riot, a group of 'deviants' are rounded up and send to a prison camp where they will be forced to participate in a deadly game.
At one point there’s a a clever shot where the camera eases back and moves between rooms, bringing out the three-dimensionality of the paintings in the process.
A comparison of the work of the two great landscape artists on their 250th anniversary, based around an exhibition in London.
Rodrigo Bellott, who adapted the film from his own play, employs multiple layers of fiction to explore themes around loss, rejection, redemption and that deep human longing to understand what's going on inside the minds of those we love.
Following his son Gabriel’s death, Jorge travels from conservative Bolivia to New York City to confront Gabriel’s boyfriend Sebastian. While the two battle over Jorge’s inability to accept his son, Sebastian channels his grief into a bold new play in honour of his lost love.
Although the ground it broke can only be broken once, it's clear to see why The Twilight Zone has been so respected, influential, copied and parodied since it first appeared, nearly 50 years ago.
Defying easy genre classification, Twin Peaks is a complex, literary tale that draws together ideas from disparate sources and is always veering off in directions at once unexpected and entirely logical.
When a detective visits a small town to find out who killed the homecoming queen, he uncovers a much deeper and darker mystery.
Despite the fact that there is easily enough material here to have made individual documentaries on both men, a virtue is made of marrying them together.
Tracking the rise of 'narco-soccer' through the lives and deaths of footballer Andrés Escobar and, unrelated, drug lord Pablo Escobar.
It’s clearly an earnest and (probably) autobiographical effort from Papineau, but there’s no refuge to be found amongst such details as the film blunders on for what seems like an eternity.
Marie Deschamps, a 20-year-old French-Canadian girl, quits college to go travel and learn English in Western Canada.
Soviet Union, 1937. Thousands of letters from detainees falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination... the desk of a newly appointed local prosecutor, who embarks on a quest for justice.
The summer-winter dynamic may lean a tad on the obvious side, but the structure primes us to meditate on the way friendships form during different stages of life, and which lives they’re most likely to change.
A scriptwriter is processing what is happening in her life. She meets an innkeeper while traveling.
There is more world building here than in any other part of the trilogy, and the additional material means it’s better balanced with character development.
While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
The first half is familiar in its outlines, following an established pattern which, in its own way, reassures. The second is anarchic, meandering, suggesting the expression of a very different set of instincts.
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering horrific curses.
It is silly and playful, but there are times when it becomes uncomfortable.
Violette is having a difficult maternity leave. Florence is dealing with depression. Despite their careers and families, they feel like failures. Florence’s first infidelity is a revelation. When having fun is far down the list of priorities, sleeping with a delivery guy could be revolutionary.
