This movie demonstrates in nauseating detail how chefs garnish a dish with excreta and pubic hairs, because a customer has complained too loudly, and you watch them eat it and laugh till you're sick (or should that be the other way round?).
Low grade genitalia humour in a restaurant kitchen.
It’s sweetly done, well-observed and nicely acted, but I did find I was asking myself the whole way through ‘why is it that so many British films feel as though they are ‘made for TV’?’
Londoners' love lives explored in will-they/won't-they romance.
Jennifer Garner is very good, conveying through her facial expressions what many of the actors around her feel compelled to try and communicate as if they were in a silent film.
A man decides to disappear and live secretly in an outbuilding, observing his family from a distance.
Its plot borrows wholesale from “bringing back the dead” tales of yesteryear.
A Pagan ritual offers a grieving couple the chance to spend three more days with their dead daughter, but when the moment comes, they will do anything to keep from letting her go again.
There are moments when it treads dangerously close to pretension and self-importance, but the dream-like feel of the whole thing brings it down to earth.
Rotoscope hero attempts to divine the meaning of life through his dreams.
Àlex Brendemühl is superb as the doctor, by turns avuncular and ruthless, somebody on whom the family find themselves increasingly dependent even as they come to distrust him.
An Argentinian family setting up a guest house grows suspicious of a friendly German doctor who seems to command unusual respect in the local German community.
The Walking Dead has arguably marked a pivotal point of evolution in the horror genre; the discerning cinema-goer now shying away from the more pedestrian gore-fest, in favour of more meaningful character-driven narratives.
Police officer Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.
One of the hardest things to find to recommend to people is a good mainstream film, not aimed at children, that involves no violence or untimely death - this is a charming example of that rare breed, may they never become extinct.
A travel writer and a friend he hasn't seen for years embark on the Appalachian Trail.
The wall is an undeniable presence, both solidly tangible and, thanks to some stunning sound design, resonantly audible as it redefines and demarcates the Woman's newly cloistered life.
A woman chronicles her time after becoming separated from the rest of humanity.
Much more complex than it first appears and fully deserving of its selection as Russia’s foreign language Oscar nominee this year, Ward No 6 persuasively prods at our preconceptions of ‘madness’.
'Fake' documentary explores how a doctor ended up a patient in his own asylum.
Dmytryk keeps it all ticking along nicely with the assurance of an old pro, while giving all the central relationships and subtler nuances room to breathe.
Restored Western. A town terrorised by a rancher’s thugs hires a professional gunfighter to bring order.
The comedy may be hokey, the acting third rate, the characterisation flat and the plotting threadbare, but once the daftly over-the-top action set-pieces get going, your jaw will drop to the floor and stay there.
