If you're a fan of gialli and horror all'italiana you'll enjoy playing spot the homage. If you're not a lot of the imagery and dialogue will simply go past you.
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film where his nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland; Stars: Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, Fatma Mohamed, Salvatore LI Causi, Chiara D'Anna, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Eugenia Caruso, Susanna Cappellaro, Guido Adorni, Lara Parmiani, Jozef Cseres, Pal Toth, Katalin Ladik, Jean-Michael van Schouwburg)
Flying Blind takes its time, but it knows where it's going, and it's very good.
A stylish mix of erotic love story and political thriller, a brilliant aerospace engineer who is drawn into a passionate affair with a younger male student - but can she trust him?
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Katarzyna Klimkiewicz; Writer: Caroline Harrington, Bruce McLeod, Naomi Wallace; Stars: Helen McCrory, Kenneth Cranham, Lorcan Cranitch, Tristan Gemmill, Razane Jammal, Tim Wallers, Cameron Stewart, Glyn Grimstead, Sam Ellis, Najib Oudghiri, Sherif Eltayeb, Jonathan Pembroke, Philippa Howard, James Bonser, Scott Stevenson)
A poetic ‘experimental documentary’ which explores, in the light of global economic collapse, alternatives to monetary capitalism and, in particular, the work of sprightly 93-year-old futurist and social engineer, Jacque Fresco.
(Country: UK, Sweden; Year: 2012; Director: Maja Borg)
A film and a story where you can't afford to be out of the conversation.
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas, but three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture... but all is not what it seems in this tale that is truly stranger than fiction.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Bart Layton; Stars: Anthony Zanlungo, Adam O'Brian)
Offering a British twist on the mumblecore genre, writer/director Alex Barrett's debut feature doesn't lack bravery.
Love, death and the meaning of life figure among the preoccupations of a group of uni graduates in London.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Alex Barrett; Writer: Alex Barrett; Stars: Will de Meo, Jack Gordon, Nathaniel Martello-White, Fiona Ryan, Jayne Wisener, Paul Nicholls)
Richard Coyle is decent in the title role, his engaging lead performance is a solid, if not star making turn.
A London drugs dealer finds himself on the wrong side of a ruthless Mr Big. Remake of the 1996 feature.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Luis Prieto; Writer: Matthew Read; Stars: Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb, Agyness Deyn, Mem Ferda, Zlatko Buric, Paul Kaye, Bill Thomas, Neil Maskell, Daisy Lewis, Ray Callaghan, Badria Timimi, Adam Foster, Richard Shanks, Shend, Joanna Hole)
Marsh takes no prisoners, makes no apologies and kicks you when you're down, all of which makes his films dangerous, inifinitely watchable and almost unbearably surprising.
A woman caught up in the Troubles is forced to become a informant for MI5.
(Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: James Marsh; Writer: Tom Bradby; Stars: Clive Owen, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Andrea Riseborough, Domhnall Gleeson, Martin McCann, Stuart Graham, Michael McElhatton, Mark Huberman, Brid Brennan, Alan O'Neill, David Ryan, Morgan Watkins, David Kendellen, Daniel Tatarsky)
