Knightriders
By . Published 16 April 2013
Knightriders opens with a wonderful visual gag. Through a gauzy lens we see a naked Ed Harris awake with his lady friend in sylvan glade. After bathing in the river,...
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Evil Dead
By . Published 15 April 2013Few 80s horrors have escaped the unflinching gaze of the ruthless Hollywood remake machine. But some thought The Evil Dead, Sam Raimi’s scrappy, much-loved debut, too sacred a cow to...
Flying Blind
By . Published 12 April 2013In a tense world of racial profiling and questionable military ethics lands erotic political thriller Flying Blind, starring Helen McCrory as leading aerospace engineer Frankie. Soaring to the peak of...
The Collection
By . Published 12 April 2013A sequel of sorts to The Collector, from 2009, The Collection opens with an entertaining scene in which a gimp-masked serial killer takes out an entire nightclub-full of particularly objectionable revellers with...
Vulgaria
By . Published 10 April 2013A gross-out comedy from Hong Kong, the well named Vulgaria pushes the boundaries of taste in its dialogue and storyline while coyly keeping what appears on screen comparatively chaste. To Wai-Cheung...
Simon Killer
By . Published 10 April 2013Simon, played with considerable nuance by Brady Corbet, is an American neuroscience graduate visiting Paris after being dumped by his girlfriend. His expertise, as he explains twice in the film, is...
may i kill u?
By . Published 08 April 2013A bash on the head turns a mild-mannered London bobby into a serial killer, albeit one who only targets those who break the law and agree to be killed. Writer/director...
The Place Beyond the Pines
By . Published 08 April 2013While the brutal intimacy of Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine owed a great deal to Cassavetes, this epic follow-up of family, fate and corruption recalls Michael Cimino and Sidney Lumet. And not...
All Things To All Men
By . Published 05 April 2013With a twisty plot involving dodgy diamonds, drug deals and double crosses galore, All Things to All Men strains hard to deliver on a suspenseful setup. As its cast of bent coppers,...
First Position
By . Published 05 April 2013Adopting a similar format to 2002's spelling bee doc Spellbound, First Position is a gripping documentary that follows seven children between the ages of ten and seventeen as they prepare for,...
A Late Quartet
By . Published 05 April 2013Approaching their 25th anniversary concert, a world-renowned string quartet find their world disrupted by the news that cellist Peter (Walken) has been diagnosed with the early stages of Parkinson’s disease....
Promised Land
By . Published 05 April 2013Fracking is a hot-button issue, but you wouldn't know it from Promised Land, which barely stirs any passions as it trundles through a mundane plot. Matt Damon and Frances McDormand...
Zaytoun
By . Published 04 April 2013A cross-conflict road movie set during the 1982 Lebanese war, Zaytoun gets plenty right. For one, it looks fantastic, with cinematographer Dan Laustsen lensing war-blasted cities and malignly mine-strewn countryside...
Thursday Till Sunday
By . Published 04 April 2013Thursday Till Sunday is the story of a family road trip, and we experience much of it from the perspective of 10-year-old Lucía (the excellent Santi Ahumada) as she sits...
Dark Skies
By . Published 03 April 2013If Dark Skies’ opening credits didn’t tell you it was produced by the people who brought you the Paranormal Activity franchise and Insidious you’d have guessed, such is its similarity to those...
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
By . Published 02 April 2013Aimed squarely at Middle America but with no audience in mind, The Odd Life of Timothy Green is a modern Pinocchio story so boring it makes We Bought a Zoo...
Spring Breakers
By . Published 01 April 2013This candy-coloured delirium opens with a wet and wild montage of well endowed young women gyrating in slow motion as Neanderthal jocks cascade cheap lager over their naked breasts. Knowing...
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
By . Published 27 March 2013Jon M. Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets) has managed to produce something even more stupid than Stephen Sommers’ trashy first cinematic outing for Hasbro’s '80s action figures, but with...
Identity Thief
By . Published 22 March 2013Enjoyment of Identity Thief largely rests on how much goodwill you feel towards its stars’ respective shticks, with both Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy cast to type and coasting on...
Trance
By . Published 22 March 2013Danny Boyle's best films possess an exhilarating sense of forward momentum, and Trance is a perfect fit for the director's talents as it moves swiftly through a twist-laden story that might...
