Sam Taylor-Wood, best known for her conceptual video art (including a famous work of David Beckham asleep) is probably not the obvious choice to make a film about the early days of John Lennon. Yet she has created a beautifully kind-hearted and cosy crowd-pleaser of how a young man with two mothers came to be […]
After the sexy, witty brilliance of Vicki Christina Barcelona, Woody Allen’s follow-up film Whatever Works is something of a letdown. This, however, isn’t as bad as it sounds. Even when delivering something of a regression, as this film is, he still packs more laughs and ideas into a film than most filmmakers do into a […]
Stunningly beautiful, this ethnographic road movie follows a young boy on his first salt caravan into the Andes where he discovers life, a girl and an understanding of the power of the Goddess of the Earth. Thirteen year old Kunturi lives on the world’s largest salt flats high in the Andes and joins his father […]
Charlize Theron and Kim Bassinger star in an intriguing drama where past and present are brought together to reveal how you can be redeemed through love. Separated by time and space, Theron plays Sylvia, an emotionally strangled woman confronted by her past, whilst Bassinger plays Gina, dealing with a new affair that is dividing her […]
Gently paced and exquisitely shot, this story - tinged with magical realism - tells of an anxious young woman finding her way in the world after the death of her mother. Uneducated and superstitious, Fausta (Magaly Solier), has grown up in a country racked by a violent struggle that has left its scars burned deeply […]
An epic and stunningly shot thriller about two young people crossing the gauntlet of Central America in their attempt to get to the USA. Beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra joins her father and uncle on an odyssey to a better life. Riding atop cargo trains through the steamy jungles of Guatemala and Mexico, she crosses […]
In a sharply scripted comic drama, Brittany Snow stars as the pensive Emma, a girl caught between two quite different brothers. The younger, Peter, is sweet, polite and inexperienced whilst his older brother Caleb is cynical, hurting from a failed relationship, and prone to lashing out with a blistering tongue – especially at women. When […]
Made for old and young audiences alike, this animation is a deliriously wild and totally charming ride from start to finish, as Cowboy, Indian and Horse charge all over the world in a whimsical assault of fun. Forget stop-motion animation – this is non-stop - the fast, zany and highly imaginative adventures of a group […]
Satire has never been this searingly astute and funny in a story where Washington and Westminster are desperately trying to control the media spin on a possible Middle-east war.
The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees.
After an exquisitely delicate opening sequence, this post-apocalyptic War of the Worlds-type animation struggles to show us anything new, and ultimately disintegrates as its small story gets stretched beyond breaking point. Too dour for young children and not sophisticated enough for the rest of us, the film also seems unsure of its core audience. Director […]
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