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Being a teenager is an emotional battleground when you have to face expectations from your family, your friends, your own potential... Jesse is a typical teenage surfer living in the...

Being a teenager is an emotional battleground when you have to face expectations from your family, your friends, your own potential... Jesse is a typical teenage surfer living in the...

When newly-unemployed cellist Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Matoki) answers an advert titled ‘Departures’, he’s unsettled to discover himself not in travel and leisure, but a funeral home (“It’s a misprint –...

What is it with ghosts these days? At least Beetlejuice kept his sense of humour. The traditional portmanteau chiller is resurrected and given an Asian twist by four of Thailand's...

One of very few films released on these shores addressing the Basque conflict, Clandestinos is an engaging if slight drama. Xabi (Rodríguez) pulls off a prison break and leads Mexican...

Boobs, bullets and blood burst out of the screen in Xena alumnus Rick Jacobson’s patchy tribute to the Russ Meyer exploitation movies of yesteryear. Three ‘dames’ with dark pasts...

A quirky, kooky, colourful American indie about a family of endearing eccentrics? That’ll be about half of all US films released in the last decade then. But it also...

This low-key adaptation of one of Patricia Highsmith’s lesser-known stories finds a troubled divorcee (Considine) becoming obsessed with a pretty young woman who lives in an isolated farmhouse nearby. Discovering...

Thailand continues its dominance of the martial arts genre with this latest effort from the producers of Ong-Bak. Deu (Chocolate star Yanin) is a rock drummer, who avoids kidnap by...

When titular champ Bennett Brewer (Aaron Johnson) dies in a car accident, his family – including the high-school sweetheart carrying his unborn child – struggle to reconcile their sorrow. With...

The name Petey Greene won’t ring many bells this side of the Atlantic, but the outspoken DJ was big enough in his hey-day to garner an invitation to Carter’s White...

In pursuit of ratings, Channel 4’s flagship soap Brookside went to desperate measures, from helicopter crashes, religious cult suicide pacts, incest, bodies under the patio and a postmodern rant...

Number six in Romero’s flesh-eater franchise, this latest opus of the undead is a pretty moribund effort. Things kick off nicely with a group of soldiers turned highwaymen (and woman)...

Produced for the stage by its two out-of-work stars, actor David Morrissey (Red Riding, Blackpool, The Deal) adapts a slight but affecting drama into a kind of blue collar Before...

“When truth becomes legend, print the legend,” said John Ford, and while he couldn’t have been further as a filmmaker from the director of Edward II, Derek Jarman nonetheless...

Ondi Timoner is perhaps best known for her 2004 documentary DiG!, which followed the tumultuous relationship between The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. We Live in Public takes...

It can be quite refreshing to watch a film that is exactly what you might imagine and more besides. In this respect, Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat can...

Jules Bass’ 1967 stop-motion cult classic Mad Monster Party is a ghoulish treat, and an inspiration for Tim Burton’s own darkly comic animations. Boris Karloff voices the creaky Baron...

From 1991, Satyajit Ray directed this, his final film, from inside an oxygen tent. It doesn’t show. Based on one of his own short stories, it may not be Ray’s...

Featuring Dita Von Teese's routines and the cabaret set-pieces from the famous French night-club the Crazy Horse, this DVD presents burlesque as a mixture of celebrity, nudity and high production...

Edited at a frenetic pace, trawling through Japanese sub-cultures and using lurid, intense cinematography, Kamikaze Girls is a female buddy movie re-invented as a neon romp through small town, teenage...