The contrasts in education, class and outlook between likable buffoon Aidan and his 'straight man' Tom, though certainly funny, also come with an underlying pathos, as both men struggle to find their place in the world
Homeless after walking out on his family, a confused man finds himself dependent on an unusual couple.
Aside from capturing the stand-in Californian scenery well, Bruce has fun with his RED camera’s angles and speeds, whips up woozy montages, splashes the colours around and edits with a Hot Fuzz intensity.
Two boys discover easy money is just a mirage in this desert-based caper.
DuBowski feels passionate about the subject and finds eloquent, often amusing, advocates to plead the case for liberalising the laws to allow some degree of tolerance.
Documentary on the treatment of homosexuals orthodox Jews in Israel and New York.
The West Country slang in use is at times impenetrable, but it’s clear that writer Alex Simmonds has spent a long time learning its intricacies, and the actors are doing their best to capture the spirit and tone of this community.
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
Welles – who felt this was the best movie he ever made – evokes the feeling of menacing, disorientating bureaucracy, of the senselessness of our existence, of inexplicable and inescapable threat.
A man wakes up to discover the police want to talk to him, but he has no idea what he's supposed to have done.
Slaboshpytskiy goes to show, first through Anna and then the actions of Sergey that some transactions can hold a lot more - and worse - than we have bargained for.
A deaf teenager runs into gang trouble at a boarding school.
While the films of The Trilogy can certainly be enjoyed on their own, the viewer's overall appreciation of them - and scale of Belvaux's vision - grows exponentionally when they are viewed in their totality.
Second part of Belvaux's trilogy is played mostly for laughs as a man comes to believe his wife is caught up in conspiracy.
When the freshest food is eaten by rotting mortals and family is little more than a fragile crutch above the abyss, funny jokes can no longer hide the tragedy.
Two men take a humorous journey through Italy in search of understanding and delicious food.
With their Day-Glo colours, singing and attitude to hugging, this is probably one of the few animations that will simultaneously appeal to the very young, any parents nostalgic for rave culture and grandparents who tuned in and dropped out.
Animation, sees the Trolls threatened by miserable ogres.
Like the baseball diamond that features so prominently in his film, we all know which base will be dutifully tapped next and that a home-run for the characters is inevitable.
An ageing baseball coach with failing sight, goes on the road with his daughter.
Hemphill takes this beyond the usual simple of equation of lust and loneliness to factor in the pair's changed circumstances and the impact that any decision would have on those around them.
A divorced couple discuss their lives over dinner.
True North is an unremittingly grim and claustrophobic portrayal of life in desperate circumstances, but it's engagingly told, threaded through with humour, and it makes for compulsive viewing.
A young man arranges to
smuggle illegal immigrants
across the North Sea on his
Dad's boat, but he's about to find
himself way out of his depth.
An earnest young comics geek goes on the run with an inexperienced hooker and an accidentally acquired suitcase full of cocaine - Christopher Walken's cocaine...
The Trust is whimsical, deliberately uneven and much more interested in character than action, yet it also has moments of searing tension and a couple of blistering action sequences.
An older cop persuades a younger colleague to join him in breaking into a mysterious vault.
Co-writer/director George Milton avoids the pitfalls of mind-washed religious cult horror flicks by creating characters that remain true to their own insecurities.
Darkly comic self-help murder mystery in the Scottish Highlands.
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