Inception
As Christopher Nolan’s Inception is all about dreams and the persistence of memory, it’s entirely fitting that my feelings about the film changed as time elapsed after it ended.
Review by Alex Fitch
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Splice
Splice is an update of the Frankenstein story through the lens of modern fears of genetic modification.
Review by Alex Fitch
Online Movies: Girl Number 9
Even though Girl Number 9 may toy with the iconography of Saw, Moran is very much continuing the tradition of psychological terror of Dahl and James, particularly when the serial is watched as a whole 30-minute episode rather than the six daily instalments.
Review by Alex Fitch
Cube
The film opens in spectacular manner with the cubist vivisection of an unnamed character, following which we meet five other people wandering through the claustrophobic maze.
Review by Alex Fitch
The Sky Crawlers
The Sky Crawlers is a languid tale of young fighter pilots in a near future that evokes both real world conflicts, such as the 1940s War in the Pacific, and fictional ones, such as the perpetual warfare in George Orwell’s 1984.
Review by Alex Fitch
Alice in Wonderland
This new adaptation is both a reimagining of, and sequel to, the Alice novels.
Review by Alex Fitch
House
The plot of House has the kind of lurid fairy tale scenario that Asian cinema does well.
Review by Alex Fitch
Lone Wolf and Cub
The 70s Japanese series Lone Wolf and Cub, based on a popular comic by Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima, builds on the tradition of 20 years of samurai films.
Review by Alex Fitch
FERMAT’S ROOM
Four mathematicians find themselves trapped in a gradually shrinking room in Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeí±a’s debut film, a tense psychological thriller where it pays to think inside the box.
Review by Alex Fitch
20th CENTURY BOYS
Being a faithful adaptation of the manga, it follows the labyrinthine structure of the source material, including flash-forwards, flashbacks, dream sequences and the same scene repeated from various points of view.
Review by Alex Fitch