Cutter’s Way
Cutter’s Way is a kind of sunset noir, a dark tale bathed in a golden West Coast glow.
Review by Mark Stafford
Cutter’s Way is a kind of sunset noir, a dark tale bathed in a golden West Coast glow.
Review by Mark Stafford
Viva Riva! plays like a standard 70s blaxploitation gangster flick, but the familiar tale happens against unfamiliar Congolese politics, situations and settings.
Review by Mark Stafford
Le Quattro Volte‘s ace card is its animal cast: this is by some distance the best goat-related art-house feature film I’ve ever seen.
Review by Mark Stafford
The first few minutes of the film set out the stall for what is to follow, which is 90-odd minutes of splendid Gothic nonsense.
Review by Mark Stafford
The result is one of the most deliriously unreal slices of cinema that it’s ever been my pleasure to witness.
Review by Mark Stafford
Outside the Law is a broad-brush history of the terrorist activities of the FLN in the struggle for Algerian independence built around a fictional family drama.
Review by Mark Stafford
This supernatural drama filmed in Poland, on the brink of the Holocaust, entirely in Yiddish, in 1937, is as rich and strange an artefact as any aficionado of fantastic cinema could hope for.
Mark Stafford
Pavel and Sergei are clearly already getting on each other’s nerves, which would be no big deal, if they weren’t the only human inhabitants of a meteorological station on a remote island somewhere within the Arctic Circle.
Review by Mark Stafford
David Mich;;d’s Australian crime drama Animal Kingdom is wholly credible right from the first shot, which sets up the film’s world perfectly, a blend of grim tragedy and the suburban mundane, with a trace of jet black humour.
Review by Mark Stafford
Clocking in at a lean 79 minutes, Caroline and Eric du Potet’s In Their Sleep is a creepy little psycho-thriller that makes the most out of comparatively little.
Review by Mark Stafford