There’s a case to be made for Seoul as the archetypal noir city of the new
millennium – the contemporary equivalent of Chandler’s Los Angeles or
Prohibition-era Chicago. A sprawling, neon-soaked boom town at…Read More...
The Gatekeepers is a documentary with a remarkable claim: it contains the first
public testimonies of six of the leaders of one of Israel’s most secretive and
deadly security forces, the internal secret service Shin Bet.…Read More...
An American-Canadian-French production about a woman who is stalked by a serial
killer while trying to cope with limited eyesight, Faces In The Crowd cannot help
but bring to mind last year’s great Spanish horror Julia’s…Read More...
A smorgasbord of genre elements including fantasy, drama, horror and comedy,
director Aleksander Nordaas’s Thale is a story of folklore and pastoralism
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It isn’t often you find a horror film where you experience events through the
eyes of the antagonist, dealing with the motivation for their deeds rather than
the hapless terror of their victims. Sleep Tight (released in…Read More...
Oscar-winning Polish film director and screenwriter, Jerzy Hoffman, most
celebrated for his 1974 film The Deluge and his 1999 film With Fire And Sword,
here tackles an often-unvisited subject of European history, t…Read More...
The gruesome death of three Essex drug dealers on a rainy night in December 1995
has already spawned three movies attempting to put the pieces together and solve
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Hollow is a 2011 low-budget horror film in the ‘found footage’ genre. It is
directed by Michael Axelgaard and stars Emily Plumtree, Sam Stockman, Jessica
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Hitting UK cinemas in 2012, hot on the heels of Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters,
Jackpot comes from the same co-production stable of Nordisk Films and was also
penned by the best-selling Norwegian crime writer. How does it…Read More...
With a Best Actor and Best Screenplay award from the Silver Berlin Bear festival
in 2012, A Royal Affair comes from strange beginnings, adapted from two novels
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