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...
Tokyo! brings together short works from three creative, stylish directors in a
surreal triptych centred on the city of its title. Each piece of the film paints
its own imaginative and bizarre picture reflecting the city an…Read More...
Greek auteur Theo Angelopoulos died in January 2012. Sadly, this meant that the
filmmaker never got the opportunity to complete his latest film trilogy.
Following opener The Weeping Meadow, The Dust Of Time is the s…Read More...
Despite there being a great number in their discography, the French have never
been internationally renowned for their comedy. Whilst recent box office
champions such as The Artist (2011) and Untouchable (2011) hav…Read More...
Made for TV, this Singaporean film is a low-key romp that is more comedy than
horror. The story tramples about on the usual clichés, salvaged by its cynically
bitter edge. A military squad is sent to an island to find som…Read More...
The first thing that strikes you while watching Time Bomb is how dated it feels
already, a mere four years after its release. After all, the heady paranoid days
of the Bush era and the ‘War on Terror’ have long since be…Read More...
Baltasar Kormakur, best known as the director of successful indie comedy 101
Reykjavik (2000) and rather excellent crime drama Jar City (2006), puts his
acting cap on to star in this frantic crime thriller. The fi…Read More...
Trapped is a low-budget Irish film, originally entitled Anton, which was shot in
2008 on location in Cavan. Now available on DVD, Trapped is set in 1972,
beginning on the day after Bloody Sunday, and deals with the T…Read More...
Having spent the larger proportion of his career creating thrillers and horrors
like Pulse and The Cure, Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa went in a different
direction with his 2008 film Tokyo Sonata. Swapping murders an…Read More...
Descendents is the long-awaited zombie film from Chile’s terror-maestro
Jorge Olguin (Angel Negro, Eternal Blood). Set in a dystopian world reminiscent
of 28 Weeks Later (2007) and Children Of Men (2006), it hopes…Read More...
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