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By . Published 08 May 2010
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Departures
By . Published 29 April 2010When 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 –...
Phobia
By . Published 21 April 2010What 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...
Clandestinos
By . Published 12 April 2010One 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...
Bitch Slap
By . Published 07 April 2010Boobs, 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...
Rosalie Goes Shopping
By . Published 05 April 2010A 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...
The Cry of the Owl
By . Published 05 April 2010This 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...
Raging Phoenix
By . Published 05 April 2010Thailand 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...
The Greatest
By . Published 02 April 2010When 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...
Talk To Me
By . Published 16 March 2010The 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...
Salvage
By . Published 15 March 2010In 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...
George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead
By . Published 09 March 2010Number 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)...
Don't Worry About Me
By . Published 02 March 2010Produced 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...
Edward II
By . Published 27 February 2010“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...
We Live In Public
By . Published 22 February 2010Ondi 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...
Eating Out 3: All You Can Eat
By . Published 03 February 2010It 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...
Mad Monster Party
By . Published 02 February 2010Jules 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...
The Stranger (Agantuk)
By . Published 02 February 2010From 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...
Crazy Horse, Paris with Dita Von Teese
By . Published 02 February 2010Featuring 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...
Kamikaze Girls
By . Published 01 February 2010Edited 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...
