★★★★☆ Like any really good comedic filmmaker, Satoshi Miki is deadly serious at least part of the time – and like any great comedic filmmaker, he takes considerable pains to make sure you don’t notice it. This week sees what is generally considered Miki’s […]
★★★★☆ Rereleased on Blu-ray under Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label, 1984 cult classic Repo Man is the debut film of actor, writer and director Alex Cox, and become a sleeper hit amongst sci-fi fans upon release thanks to its hugely entertaining mix of surreal […]
★★☆☆☆ Purporting to present a previously unseen story in the build up to the 1968 West German protests and formation of Baader-Meinhof movement, Andres Veigel’s If Not Us, Who? (Wer wenn nicht wir, 2011) is a well-shot, thoroughly researched piece that unfortunately relays little […]
★★★☆☆ From Palme d’Or-nominated director Pablo Trapero and starring one of the most recognisable faces in South American cinema, Ricardo Darin (The Secret in Their Eyes [2009]), Carancho (2010) is a morality tale with a twisted noir mentality – an unconventional romance set against […]
