Film Reviews

Plan B is another cerebral whodunnit from Argentine director Marco Berger, where the mystery is not stone cold body, but living, breathing sexuality. Bruno, a long-haired, shaggy long-haired young man played by Manuel Vignau, plans revenge after he is dumped by his girlfriend. His first scheme, plan A,...

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...

In the London press conference for Battleship, director Peter Berg said that he wanted to make a “big summer popcorn fun, bad-ass movie” and he has succeeded in making just that. Spectacular visual effects and fighting sequences will shake you to the edge of your seat, and he doesn't forget the...

It's quirky, it's French, it's Audrey Tautou - what could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a few things, as it turns out... Delicacy follows the story of Nathalie (Tautou) who is so loved up it's almost unbearable. Her cutesy romance with Francois (Pio Marmai) involves kissing outside cafés, twirling in...

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...

The science fiction genre of late has been filled with attempts that barely exceed our expectations. Luckily The Hunger Games, with its clever commentary on reality TV and the desensitization of violence, might just be the film we've been waiting for. Directed by Gary Ross, fans and new audiences can expect an...

Le Havre is a film about a bunch of very odd people. Luckily, it's also a really good film about a bunch of very odd people. To describe it in a sentence, it tells the tale of a writer-cum-shoe-shiner who helps his wife through her illness and takes care of an illegal immigrant. But it deserves a lot more than...

La Grande Illusion is a war film that is set miles from the front and contains no fighting. Instead it focuses on a motley group of characters for whom the war is over - POWs - and spins out a yarn that is funny, insightful and moving. It's no wonder that the film is regarded as one of the best ever...

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...