Drama

What happens when you take a bunch of Marvel superheroes, throw in a famous villain and get man-of-the-moment director Joss Whedon to mix them together? The answer is 142 minutes of gripping adventure, hilarious banter and pure entertainment, of the kind that doesn't come around very often. Marvel Avengers...

Two British comedy institutions collide in Twice Round the Daffodils: the Carry On films and the Doctor series. The result however is not quite as jolly as you might expect. The film is more of a drama with jokes, than a comedy. This is no bad thing, however. Not only does the film feature Carry Ons...

The Source is an extremely beautiful exploration of the traditional Muslim culture in a small  North African village. It may focus on a single village, yet it represents a much broader picture of femininity and equality that deserves to be brought to the attention of a wide audience. The Source is the...

Sometimes, every now and again, you'll see a film that grants you a new perspective, that lets you look out of the eyes of the protagonist. This is one of those films. This Must Be the Place is a story about misfits. It's a story about feeling otherworldly, misunderstood, confused, upset, torn apart, and put...

Towards the end of Marco Berger's Absent (Ausente) one of the characters remarks that she has been reading a book that has too many 'gaps' in it, which have been included to leave room for the reader's interpretation. She doesn't know if she'd recommend the book, but we're happy to do so for this...

Topical and entertaining, Dexter Fletcher's directorial début, Wild Bill is an independent film that appears rough around the edges, but has a lot of heart. Fletcher's name holds a lot of respect in the British film industry. He is an actor with an immense amount of big and small screen experience,...

It is rare to encounter a film which swaps sentimentality for realism and still remains as watchable as The Kid with a Bike. While the clumsily worded title of this Belgian drama suggests that something may have been lost in translation, the characters, emotions and encounters depicted by directing...

Trishna is Michael Winterbottom's modernisation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles moved to contemporary India - a transition which perhaps works better in theory than in practise. The film follows the story of Trishna, a peasant girl played by Freida Pinto, who meets British-Indian Jay Singh,...

India can be a pretty intense experience at the best of times, but it must be even more so if you're a pensioner. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel somewhat sanitises the full mind-bending experiences that are the Subcontinent and growing old to create a nonetheless charming film. Before anything else...

Taking the phrase 'grim up north' to a whole new level, Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur does not shy away from portraying the darkest of realities, with a plot driven by rage and inhumanity. Peter Mullan, who we last saw playing a violent alcoholic in his 2010 film, Neds, takes on the similar role of...