Author Tom Bond

As an elevator pitch – Hong Kong musical corporate satire – Office takes some beating. Sadly, the result is less complex and less bonkers than that logline would suggest. There are some enjoyably quirky...

Dheepan feels timely with its story of the immigrant experience, but Audiard is never one for simple morality tales, and complicates his immigrants’ pasts with violence and rebellion. Despite that we’re...

With its Pulp Fiction-esque sprawl and community of Johannesburg teens, writer and director Mer’s Necktie Youth bears all the hallmarks of a precociously talented young filmmaker – for better or...

Hamstrung by the Church of Scientology’s understandable lack of cooperation, Louis Theroux borrows meta recreation techniques from the likes of The Act of Killing to ingenious effect. Actors’...

Sunset Song’s chronicling of rural wartime hardship is nothing we haven’t seen before. Abusive patriarchs, repressed women and traumatised soldiers are unoriginal ingredients, but Davies turns them into...

It turns out the end of the world looks pretty similar no matter what language it’s happening in. This Norwegian disaster movie benefits from its local focus, but ultimately it’s plagued by the same flaws...

It’s very hard to resist being persuaded by Russell Brand. His calls for revolution may lack detail, but they are full of the passion, humour and energy that has inspired so many. At the same time you get...

Beginning with a brutal shock to the system, Remainder becomes a disquieting, paranoid thriller with a sheen of clammy body horror. Just when you worry it’s writing itself into a corner, the unnamed...

Lost in Munich starts odd – a French parrot offends Czechs on the anniversary of the historical 1938 Munich agreement by repeating the insults of the French PM Edouard Daladier – and only gets...

Imagine if one man were responsible for the success of the entire rock ‘n’ roll scene in the ‘60s. Danny Says doesn’t go quite that far, but it does depict Danny Fields, publicist, manager and...

Blood of My Blood tries to link too many genres, styles and time periods, without much of a story to hold them together. The script may be poor, but Bellocchio keeps your attention with teasing direction,...

Beeba Boys offers plenty that’s new to one of the oldest genres in cinema: the gangster film. The location: Vancouver, and the cast – flamboyantly dressed Indo-Canadian Sikhs – are all refreshing...

Jia Zhangke continues to chronicle contemporary Chinese society, but this time he looks to the future in a story stretching from 1999 to 2025. Zhangke offers wry humour and class pressures in the...

Violently dull, and then just violent, Madame Courage is a film with nothing new to say. Its mood of stasis interrupted by extreme violence is reminiscent of Nicolas Winding Refn, but without the style....

It’s a testament to Kári’s direction and Jónsson’s performance that Virgin Mountain remains engrossing despite being relentlessly downbeat. Jónsson doesn’t soften his performance by suggesting...