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Charming and inconsequential, The Bookshop perfectly evokes the sensation of losing yourself in a good book. Nothing too heavy – more of a summer read than daunting prose – we are led stepping into its...

A conventional thriller in an unconventional setting, Black 47 lays the bleakness on pretty thick to establish the woeful world in which we find ourselves. War, famine, greed, wrath – the seven sins, the...

Movies don’t have to mimic their settings. Space is pretty desolate, but most films featuring the final frontier don’t waste half their running time slowly inching through the black. When it comes to...

Perhaps only sitting in a freezing igloo where, instead of perfect blocks of ice, long thin steely icicles provide just enough contact with the outer world recreates the feeling of Berlin Syndrome. The...

On the Beach at Night Alone is an essay on feelings, their consequences and complications. It proves that even a dying fire still has the ability to scorch. We meet Youngee, a seemingly popular actress, just...

“Right or wrong, it’s a brand,” Alan Ladd’s Shane philosophises in the western which bears his name. “A brand sticks. There’s no going back.” The line has been included in Logan, the widely...

While making comparisons is nearly always reductive, Call Me By Your Name feels like Brokeback Mountain via Richard Linklater – which hopefully sounds like a compliment because it is meant as a huge one. It...

Colo purports to be a kitchen sink-style drama, which is apt: watching it is about as enthralling as washing the dishes. Teresa Villaverde concerns her art with the economic crisis and how such events can...

Sequels are a curious and fickle species, particularly the breed that has come to most prominence in the last few years: the legacy followup. Always ready to cannibalise when they need to, film producers seem...

It is hard not to think that when Sabu set about writing, and eventually getting in the chair for, Mr. Long, he hadn't just got up from watching Refn's Drive for the umpteenth time. So, is this the Eastern...

“This is an emergency!” Spike Lee proclaims at the outset of his latest feature. There is an anger coursing through Chi-Raq that hasn’t been felt in the director’s work for some time; as passionate as...

At times the premise of Saint Amour feels uncannily similar to Alexander Payne's Sideways, a comparison that will not work to its favour as it slumps in the shadow of a far superior film. That's not to say...

You could send yourself crazy trying to determine what A Dragon Arrives! is actually all about; what opens as a playfully elusive detective noir turns into something else entirely as fact and fiction begin to...

The fact that a horror film named Creepy fails to be the slightest bit creepy is the first crime of Kurosawa's impotent serial killer thriller. Further crimes include a script that is burdened by boring...

It's hard to accuse a 485 minute film of being 'too long', simply for the fact that it operates according to a completely separate set of rules to conventional cinema. That said, Lav Diaz's latest is too...