Film & DVD Reviews

Heavy Traffick

Devastating teenage-abuse-hell drama from director of Together

Cracking Combination

Wry indie tragicomedy sees idiot safebreakers on the rampage

Le Souffle

OPENS APRIL 11, CERT 15, 77 MINS

Damien Odoul's debut feature is a coming-of-age film...

Cradle 2 The Grave

Everybody's kung fu fighting

Shanghai Knights

The inevitable sequel to Shanghai Noon

Ararat

Oblique polemical melodrama as would-be epic

Nowhere In Africa

Touching, true saga of wartime Jewish refugees

Open Hearts

There's life in the old Dogme yet

Puckoon

Adaptation of Spike Milligan's cult 1963 novel

The Werckmeister Harmonies

Big, bleak and brilliant

Phone Booth

Ingenious, high-concept thriller sees Joel Schumacher back on top of his game

Intacto

DIRECTED BY Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

STARRING Max Von Sydow, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio...

Trapped

OPENS APRIL 25, CERT 15, 106 MINS

Everything about this slice of uber-trash is insane....

Brooklyn Heights

Lee's lofty adaptation of gritty 24-hour crime novel takes on the shadows of 9/11

Roadkill

Since The Last Seduction, John Dahl hasn't quite delivered the skilful thrills we hoped for....

A Star Is Born—Special Edition

It's not hard to see why the second version of Hollywood's infamous morality tale of the...

Bunny Business

Disturbingly funny debut tackles life and death with the help of a giant rabbit

XXx

Boisterous action ensues when colourfully tattooed extreme sports fanatic Xander Cage is press-...

The spaghetti western was flagging by 1970 when Enzo Barboni gave it a spoof shot in the arm...

Van Wilder—Party Liaison

One of the last spasms from the gross-out "wave", this National Lampoon effort has—among...

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“I think I was reaching quite high from the beginning. I may not have had any right to be, but I was. I was always interested in people that were older than me and I looked up to them – people really from a different era to me: Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, even writers like Bob Dylan and...