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...
With just a month till Christmas (insert your choice of "Joy to the world" or "Bah humbug" here), DVD shelves are already overflowing with "gift ideas". But while Santa Claus:...
Jimmy Carr is a comedian in the most traditional sense: as the subtitle suggests, he tells jokes. In fact, it's something of an obsession that he has, having written a...
From the humble origins of Pontin’s holiday camp, the now global All Tomorrow's Parties festival continues to stay free of corporate sponsorship. This mishmash of footage from fans, musicians and...
Grandmaster Ip Man trained Bruce Lee. Frankly, he could have done nothing else and died a proud and happy man. But he also survived the Japanese invasion of China, publicly...
You may not have seen Robert Altman’s genuinely ground-breaking 1993 drama Short Cuts. But you probably have seen Magnolia, Crash or Syriana, in which case you will have unconsciously appreciated...
In a surreal cameo, snooker star Jimmy White has his fingers cut off by undercover cop Jack (Simon Phillips). Worryingly, The Whirlwind has more acting ability in his remaining pinky...
A DVD showcase for lesbian short films: about fucking time! Here Come The Girls would be a welcome release regardless of content, and, despite a few false notes, it’s definitely...
As the loss of their child overwhelms them with grief, a successful couple (Béart and Sewell, both on good form) retreat to a mysterious place where they hope for reconciliation,...
Based on stories by Nobel Prize-winning writer Rabindranath Tagore, Teen Kanya literally translates as Three Daughters, but so far, most international versions of the film have only contained two of...
When Going Live’s Trevor and Simon constituted TV entertainment for a generation of kids, Terry Gilliam’s tour-de-force Time Bandits burst onto the screen. Dwarf burglars smash through young boy Kevin’s...
At one point in Goddess, Roy (Biswas), the patriarch of the family at the centre of Ray’s period drama, complains that his son Umaprasad (Chatterjee) is becoming “Christianized”. Addressing the...
Barbara is a beautiful college girl just looking for the right guy, happily killing everyone else who gets in the way. When she meets a nice fellow who works in...
Winning a camera changes Maria (Heiskanen)’s life: it hastens her marriage to Sigge (Persbrandt); and it helps her endure it. It’s 1907, and Malmö in Sweden seems like a cleaner...
