Blitz **½ Unless you are a reader of the novels of author Ken Bruen, whose book of the same name provides the basis for Blitz, it is very likely that you may be completely unaware of the existence of this film, such is the near complete absence of

Sweatshop (18) Dir: Stacy DavidsonScr: Stacy Davidson and Ted GeogheganStarring: Ashley Kay, Peyton Wetzel, Brent Himes, Melanie Donihoo 80 mins, 2009Distributor: High Fliers In a supposedly deserted factory, rave organizer Charlie and her band of techies and crew have one hour to prepare for the night’s shindig. Sex abounds and

There's something decidedly Beckettian about this darkly comic piece which gently mocks the horror genre and medium of film in general.It may be hard to swallow at first, but Rubber's plot is centred around a tyre that comes to life and escalates into a callous murderer. Containing this unusual focus within

Attack the Block ***½ Quietly hyped up for several months now, horror comedy Attack the Block marks the cinematic directorial debut of comedian Joe Cornish, who many Brits may remember as one half of the comedy duo Adam and Joe whose TV sketch series, the unimaginatively titled The

Water for Elephants ***½ “Life is the most spectacular show on Earth’ reads the tagline for Water for Elephants, the latest romance movie starring Twilight star Robert Pattinson – thus ensuring that an army of swooning teenage girls will be marching upon multiplexes to see it in addition