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https://vimeo.com/154188234 Everybody would like to die on their own terms, whether it’s peacefully in their sleep or in a state of oxygen-starved euphoria on a specially-built rollercoaster. But is there...

Frequently cited as his last great film, Akira Kurosawa's Ran shows the director at the height of his powers. The film, released in 1985, was a decade-long passion project for the septuagenarian director. Much...

Batman and Superman are currently clobbering each other through cinemas around the globe, but where did it all begin? One Room With A View casts the Bat Signal back through time, past the Nolan-noughties, past...

It’s no secret that sport is emotive. But what defines the sports genre? Is it a film where the plot centres around the buildup to a big sporting event? Or is it simply a film that contains a sport? The...

https://vimeo.com/156713133 Can you escape your memories? Breathtaking cinematography is almost a requirement of a modern music video, but This Idea of Us goes above and beyond to anchor the...

Ladies and gentleman, please take your seats for the warm-up fight, Batman v Batman v Batman (the fact we couldn’t find enough writers for a Superman debate probably tells you who would win the main contest...

Anomalisa is one of the the scariest films you'll ever see. It is also one of the most human films you’ll ever see. It is 100% concentrated existential dread with a layer of unsettling psychological disorder...

"God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness." So begins Chilean auteur Pablo Larraín's latest opus El Club, which...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/156553337 Welcome to the wildly beautiful Wild West. There's no time for reflection or composure as Stephen Reedy goes hell for leather in his punky, Scott...

This weekend sees the release of 10 Cloverfield Lane, a movie that was announced with almost no fanfare just weeks ago. Producer J.J. Abrams is known for his love of the ‘mystery box’, but this still makes...

Let's face it: it seems highly unlikely that anyone we know from Cloverfield is going to be in 10 Cloverfield Lane. Most of the characters end up certifiably or almost certainly dead, and talk of the new movie...

In Men With Brooms, a curling team reunites with the help of Leslie Nielsen, as they attempt to win the ‘Golden Broom’ tournament. Or, as the DVD blurb describes it: “A comedic journey which takes...

https://vimeo.com/127949242 This confident and atmospheric short may not be flashy, but its ambling, observational pace and detailed soundscape piques the curiosity. With charmingly stylised visuals...

This week sees the Young Adult sub-genre stumble onwards into yet another dystopian future with the release of The Divergent Series: Allegiant. The sub-genre has thrived since the early noughties when the...

  David O. Russell’s Accidental Love, a long-gestating car crash of a production infamously daubed with a pseudonym of shame rather than Russell’s name, was screaming out for admission into the...