Independent

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,...

I'll admit, I assumed this was a film about comics. Turns out I was mostly wrong, but in the best possible way. If there's one thing that can be said about Booked Out that I see as complimentary to any film, it's that it's profoundly weird, and writer/director Bryan O'Neil should wear this particular label...

Man. Man, man, man. Red State is not your average Kevin Smith flick. Part slasher horror, part political thriller, and part Westboro-levels of crazy, it's one dark mother of a film. I'm well-versed in Smith cinema, and I'd say all of his work up to Red State has been easily identifiable. This time around,...

Weekend has been getting a massive amount of media love, especially in the US. If we ignore the hype this is still the best low budget, 2010s kitchen sink drama, which just happens to have two gay central characters, to have come out for a while. The film follows Russell (Tom Cullen) a softly-spoken,...

Whenever we breathe a sigh of relief that somewhere in the world a war has finally finished, another one always seems to pop up somewhere else. But just in case we're tempted to try and forget about the whole sorry business, war photographers try to take our hands and lead us back to our humanity. Back in the...

It's been a long time since rock and roll has been truly rock 'n' roll. Although 20 years ago Nirvana entertained us with their unique blend of teen spirit, you probably have to look even further back to Seventies punk for a genuinely threatening and questioning political, ethical stance. The Taqwacores takes the...

I have never seen a Gregg Akari film before. Akari is widely held to be wonderful, he has made giant leaps for gay film and broken barriers in independent film. But before watching Kaboom I wasn't aware of this and was left somewhat bemused. Perhaps if I had known more about Akari I might have got more from the...

Mathieu Amalric's Joachim Zand in On Tour (Tournée), the manager of a group of American Burlesque girls on tour of Western France, is quite a long way from his role as Bond villain, Dominic Greene in The Quantum of Solace. Having said that, Joachim is not an entirely likeable man, even if he isn't as evil as...

The poster for Forget Me Not doesn't really do it any favours. A 'stunning' London skyline, a couple looking loving at each other and the tag line 'Love can happen in 24 hours'. It's cheesy and you can get a pretty good idea of what to expect just from that. However with quotes saying it is 'achingly beautiful'...