When a movie crew invades a small Japanese town, local lumberjack Katsuhiko (Kôji Yakusho) and young filmmaker Koichi (Shun Oguri) form an unlikely bond. The film is very much a character piece and re...
Last week I had the pleasure of reviewing the bleak, moving French film Gervaise, by director Réne Clément. Skip forward seven days and I have sat down, black coffee in hand, to watch Oscar-winning Fo...
By Bex. Wow, a 3D horror film. Now that’s what I’m talking about. This is not one for the fainthearted I have to admit it is pretty much a gore fest, but with a clever twist and a good story. Add to t...
There isn’t much to say about Floating Weeds that hasn’t already been said. Over the decades that have passed since Yasujirō Ozu remade his own silent film, A Story of Floating Weeds, many a superlati...
By LittleWords. If you like a movie that you really have to think about, and also be slightly uncomfortable with, then this is the one. It’s all about an elderly man called Robert Malone, who li...
