With its UK release following close on from that of North Sea, Nature Untamed, it is only natural to compare these two works yet in some key respects they are very different. Both are documentaries ...

I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

It’s reassuring that there are still spaces like Alaska left in the world, untouched by retail parks and data factories. For much of the running time of Heart of the Beast, the snowy peaks and virgin ...

There’s nobody quite like Nicolas Winding Refn. He’s one of the few directors whose distinctive style immediately sets him apart – where he delivers stories imbued with stifling atmosphere, long and ...

If a zany sound effect makes you scream with laughter, then this is for you. It’s an audacious concept, a cartoon character suing the biggest corporation in the world for constant pain and suffering.

Had The Last Bath obtained a release in the UK some three years ago, it would not have been all that surprising despite the fact that this Portuguese film has no international names attached that ...

This debut feature by Ed Sayers stands out for the simple reason that it brings a novel approach to a genre, that of the nature documentary, which rarely breaks away from its traditional mould. Over ...

The real star of this film, a piece set in the suburbs of Paris in the 1980s, is the child actor Simon Boublil in the key role of 12-year-old Vincent Dayan. Although young Boublil, now fourteen, had ...

This is the first film to be released in the UK by a new distributor, Tributary, and this co-production between the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic is a bold choice. It has admittedly won ...

Win a copy of Leviticus on Blu-ray! To celebrate the the home entertainment release of NEON’s queer horror Leviticus, we’re giving two lucky US readers the chance to win their very own Blu-ray copy, ...

The British filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel is well established having made a number of feature films and even more shorts, but it is only now with The Cycle of Love that I have come across his work.

From Backrooms to backstage, the liminal spaces of Stolen Kingdom carry an eerie nostalgia. Long gone are the park guests and the bustling activity that normally define such places. This is the ...