Mad Monster Party
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...

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...

The Army of Crime joins a roster of recent European films exploring the continent’s wartime past from a fresh perspective. French realist Guédiguian takes us back to the days...

Invaluable for students of sixties counter-culture, this intimate and controversial collection of documentaries by David Bailey has his titular pop artist profile (initially banned) as its centrepiece. The other films...

Based on a short story by Aleksandr Pushkin and championed by Martin Scorsese (who provides an enthusiastic introduction to this DVD), this obscure 1949 fantasy from a forgotten British filmmaker...

Most of what you need to know about Dickinson’s spy story can be found in the title: despite the pulpy connotations, it’s actually an existential metaphor. This was Dickinson’s...

Havana Marking’s film documents the journey of four young hopefuls in the final stages of a reality singing show. But forget The X-Factor: this is about far more than holding...

With a formal approach in keeping with the Youtube era of digital filmmaking, Neill Blompkamp’s debut is an exciting and provocative rush, its success testament to the increasing sophistication of...

Opening with a thrilling police chase which results in an impressive slow motion pile-up, director Dante (The Twins Effect) Lam’s latest is a stylish but ultimately unspectacular entry in the...

Maxi (Cámara) is a foul-mouthed, flamboyant and mostly unlikable chef in Madrid, whose professional and personal lives are thrown into disarray when he is forced to take in his...

This rare misfire from cinema’s greatest entertainer was one of several productions to mark the end of the New Hollywood era. 1941 is a mess of a movie, an unfocused,...

Two movies from one of South Korea’s most versatile filmmakers: A Bittersweet Life is an ultra-stylish, fatalistic gangster thriller with all the MTV inflected exuberance and considered sincere philosophising...

Anyone who grew up during the 90s may recall seeing this during Channel 4’s Queer Street strand. Teenage Claude is a music loving skater who can’t quite understand her feelings...

Upon its cinema release, many called this cynical toy commercial “the live action Team America”. This is unfair: that movie had more wit and ideas in a single frame than...

Tarantino’s superb genre pastiche is the cinematic equivalent of Woody Guthrie’s guitar case: a defiant, aggressive and life-affirming two-fingered salute to fascism. After the overblown Kill Bill and indulgent Death Proof, QT...

Made for French TV, this run-of-the-mill coming out story centres on Laurent, an agriculture student whose female flatmate poses as his girlfriend to appease the family who disowned his...

Sunshine Cleaning is a a lovely wee film. Not, however, in the way that so many American indies (In Search of A Midnight Kiss, Away We Go, 500 Days of...

John Waters cites Boom! as his favourite film of all time: it’s not surprising. Liz Taylor shrieks and prances in some of the most outrageous outfits you’ll ever see, barking...