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Alice Eve bids to be taken seriously by playing downtrodden single mum and half-a-horse town motel owner Chloe. Under the protection of bent copper Billy (Lo... Read more »

“It encourages us to understand history, and to see the kind of things that happen with moral panics,” says director Jake West of his new documen... Read more »

The exploitation revival of the last ten or so years has produced more duds than doozies, but Jim Mickle here delivers a real highlight of the sub-genre with... Read more »

The Green Inferno, Eli Roth’s gleefully grim cannibal tribe exploitation movie, is fun... up to a point While The Green Inferno is unlikely to co... Read more »

Roman Polanski returns to the role of provocateur with a deliciously subversive filming of David Ives’ play. Fiddling with gender roles, metatextuality... Read more »

A compelling central performance from Peter Ferdinando is not enough to save Gerard Johnson’s derivative and deeply unpleasant thriller, Hyena. Ferdina... Read more »

A blind army veteran loses his guide dog and only friend, Quincy, on a tough estate in this slight but extremely well put together debut feature from Matt an... Read more »

Mining terrifying themes of maternal instincts, debut writer-director Kent’s cerebral spook story marks her as a talent to watch. Essie Davis is extrao... Read more »

Former King of the Blockbuster Steven Spielberg was originally attached to direct Interstellar, and we can only imagine what his innate humanism would h... Read more »

Awards buzz circled this entertaining account of Enigma code-breaker Alan Turing long before its debut at the traditionally Oscar-foreshadowing Toronto Film ... Read more »

Ryan Gosling draws on his favourite filmmakers to produce his debut as writer-director, an often dazzling and always thought-provoking modern fairy tale that... Read more »

Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel have great chemistry in Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth Paolo Sorrentino’s follow-up to his widely and vociferously acc... Read more »

Sight unseen, a trip into sci-fi territory might not have been the first thing one would expect from Jeff Nichols following rural dramas Shotgun Stories, Tak... Read more »

Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston star in Alex Ross Perry’s stylish psychological horror Queen of Earth Elisabeth Moss and Katherine Waterston&nb... Read more »

Detached, monosyllabic teen Joshua’s (Frecheville) mum has, as he puts it, “gone and OD’d and she’s dead”, so he turns to estra... Read more »

Philip Seymour Hoffman makes a solid debut behind the camera with this adaptation of Robert Glaudini’s play, a suitably thespian-friendly piece for one... Read more »

Writer/producer Luc Besson returns to familiar super-assassin territory with Colombiana, and it may be time he left the genre well alone. After witnessing th... Read more »

Roman Polanski's classy farce centres on the petty squabbles of four bourgeois Manhattanites. Following an attack on the Longstreets' (Foster, Reilly) son by... Read more »

Rob Heydon’s adaptation of The Undefeated, one of three novellas in Ecstasy: Three Tales of Chemical Romance, clearly has affection for the source mate... Read more »

Legendary orator and pillar of the church Ambrosio (Vincent Cassel) has his devotion to God thrown into question by the arrival of Valerio (Déborah Fr... Read more »

After years of phoning-in his tiresome wild-eyed loon shtick, Michael Shannon finally delivers a performance of genuine depth and power at the centre of Jeff... Read more »

This highly accomplished, micro-budget drama from Nathan Silver offers a rich study of loneliness and its different effects. Newly qualified nurse Elena (Kia... Read more »

Steve Carrell once again does the introverted, white-collar schlub thing alongside a horribly miscast Kiera Knightly as they come to terms with the impending... Read more »

Writer/director Josh Radnor's sophomore feature sees him also play Jesse, a detached but well-meaning 30-something university admissions officer recently dum... Read more »

Woody Allen attempts to replicate some of the magic from last year’s delightful Midnight In Paris by returning to a fabled old European city and addres... Read more »

Yet another wedding-themed romantic comedy, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need thankfully eschews the crass hi-jinks of its recent predecessors to pro... Read more »

Rob Zombie’s love of 70s grindhouse has been apparent throughout his often crass, brutal filmmaking career. With The Lords of Salem, however, the headb... Read more »

The Liability, Craig Vivieros’ second feature following prison drama debut Ghosted, offers enough surprises to raise it above the mire of recent dopey ... Read more »

“We film in people’s faces, we violate,” says Liverpool-born filmmaker Lucien Castaing-Taylor of the cinematic style that brings us Leviath... Read more »

David Gordon Green rejects his recent form for crude stoner clowning to provide more oblique, contemplative comedy with 80s-set Prince Avalanche. Paul Rudd a... Read more »