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After the death of Cecil the Lion, it’s become clear that public opinion of big-game hunting is at an all-time low. So Safari is a timely documentary about the reviled activity that yields many...

Small-town Argentinian nationalism clashes with European cosmopolitanism in The Distinguished Citizen. The resulting wreckage is both funny and depressing. After fleeing to Europe four decades ago, Nobel...

The mockumentary has recently seen a resurgence with comedies like What We Do In The Shadows and Popstar. King of the Belgians continues this trend and is one of the funniest films of the year. Taking...

For the first half of Home, it’s difficult to understand what story the filmmakers are trying to tell. It’s clearly meant to be a teen film, but there’s a lack of direction in the plot that mirrors the...

Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti are ambitious film-makers at least, but the baffling Spira Mirabilis is too self-absorbed to be of much appeal to audiences. Touted as a “visual symphony” the film...

Taking a look at the life of Chuck Wepner, the real-life inspiration for Rocky Balboa, The Bleeder appropriately feels eclipsed by greatness. It stands in shadows that include the legacy of Muhammad Ali, the...

Hounds of Love is one of those films that most people can only stomach once. Sharing a namesake, and maybe some themes, with the hit song by Kate Bush, Australian director Ben Young's debut film is a deeply...

Prevenge opens with a heavily pregnant Ruth (Alice Lowe) murdering a seemingly harmless, although admittedly creepy, reptile shop owner. No explanation is given, and from here we hang onto Ruth’s...

The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez lacks as much momentum as it does sense. After the great opening 3D shots of Paris, the film proceeds to disappear up itself and stay there for an excruciatingly tedious 90...

“Well, what do you make of that?" Colonel Weber (Whitaker) rather amusingly asks linguist professor Louise (Adams) after he plays her an indecipherable recording of the sound of aliens that have just landed...

The Anarchist Cookbook is among the most controversial books ever published, detailing how to make bombs and weapons. So it’s surprising that the subject of American Anarchist, the book's author...

Miljeong follows a trend of Chinese and South Korean period films that chart those countries' victimisation by the Japanese in the first half of the 20th century. It’s a decent genre flick that should...

I Called Him Morgan is more of a ‘true tragedy’ than a ‘true crime’ documentary. Director Kasper Collin’s second documentary feature tells the story of jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, who was killed...

Kim Ki-duk is known for being as profane as he is prolific; one of his more notable films is the Oedipal nightmare Moebius. With Geumul he retains some of the absurdity but grounds it with a human story...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LQx_wbGTw One of the world’s great filmmakers, Abbas Kiarostami, died earlier this month. Among several superb directors in the Iranian new wave, Kiarostami shone...