Red Hill
By . Published 16 May 2011
Fresh-faced cop Shane Cooper (Kwanten) has transfered to the Outback town of Red Hill (pop. 120) to find peace and quiet for his pregnant wife. And in this backwater, dominated...
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Taxi zum Klo (Taxi to the John)
By . Published 10 May 2011It's been 30 years since Frank Ripploh shocked the world with this semi-autobiographical depiction of the reality of being gay in 1980s West Berlin. It remains a sobering reflection of...
Biutiful
By . Published 09 May 2011It's not as if we expected a frothy comedy from director Iñárritu, but Biutiful raises the bar for just how grim things can get in a film. Uxbal (Javier Bardem)...
I Saw the Devil
By . Published 25 April 2011When his pregnant fiancée is brutally murdered by a batshit crazy serial killer (Oldboy's Min-sik Choi), a hard as nails secret agent (Byung-hun Lee) swears revenge. The two begin a...
Balibo
By . Published 25 April 2011From the outset, Balibo impresses both the truth and the seriousness of the events featured. Three timelines are established: present day East Timor, where a woman recounts events that happened...
The Tourist
By . Published 18 April 2011Hollywood and European glamour collide, leaving the scattered fall-out that is Oscar-winning director Florian Henckel von Donnersmark's The Tourist. Jolie stars as enigmatic beauty Elise. She's under surveillance by gangster...
The Tunnel
By . Published 18 April 2011Made in 2001, The Tunnel's long-delayed release in Britain – and its origins as a television movie – is no indication of its quality. Inspired by the true story of...
Blood Simple
By . Published 11 April 2011In this re-make of the Coen brothers' tourniquet-tight thriller about what happens to best laid plans, sweaty Texas is swapped for the scorched deserts of ancient China. Here an adulteress...
The Be All and End All
By . Published 05 April 2011As if adolescence isn’t difficult enough, The Be All and End All does a commendable job in giving perspective to teenage trials within the much broader scheme of life, without...
Somewhere
By . Published 01 April 2011With its insider depiction of Hollywood life Somewhere will do little to change the minds of those critics who have seen director Sofia Coppola as a movie brat trading on...
Wake Wood
By . Published 24 March 2011It's fitting that the revitalised Hammer Films should return to what they do best: a creepy supernatural tale about a middle class couple who get more than they bargained for....
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
By . Published 21 March 2011When the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould made his New York debut in 1955 at the age of 22 he seemed to have come from nowhere. A mercurial musician who cut...
Children of God
By . Published 14 March 2011"Rosie O'Donnell vs. the Bahamas" may seem like the ultimate B-movie but such was the level of hysteria caused by her gay family cruise ship in the Caribbean in 2004...
The Arbor
By . Published 07 March 2011Clio Barnard's incredible documentary The Arbor explores the life and legacy of playwright Andrea Dunbar. Concentrating its gaze on the run down estate in Bradford where Dunbar lived, the film...
Pelican Blood
By . Published 28 February 2011Adapted from Cris Freddi's cult novel of the same name, Pelican Blood follows avid birdwatcher Nikko (Harry Treadaway), his rekindled, toxic relationship with environmental activist Stevie (Emma Booth) and his...
Easy A
By . Published 23 February 2011When Olive (Emma Stone) tells her best friend a white lie about losing her virginity (her “V-card”) she finds that her “terminological inexactitude” travels fast. Previously one of the anonymous...
Black
By . Published 07 February 2011Beginning worryingly like a Guy Ritchie rip-off with freeze frame introductions of loveable rogues, French heist movie Black quickly confounds your expectations of a ‘Mock Stock’. Black (MC Jean Gab'1)...
The Valley (Obscured by Clouds)
By . Published 07 February 2011Like trying to follow the ramblings of an old hippy whose brain has been fried by too much acid, watching the counter-cultural films of the 60s and 70s can be...
The Town
By . Published 24 January 2011In his directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck returned to the working class milieu of his breakthrough role in Good Will Hunting (which he co-wrote with Matt Damon). With...
Man Hunt
By . Published 24 January 2011Tired of four-legged prey, legendary hunter Captain Thorndike (Walter Pidgeon) sets his sights on bigger game, sneaking behind German lines to acquire Hitler’s 'tache for his trophy cabinet. His silly...
