Review

A lesson in yoof vernacular: “It’s a lot” is a phrase that tends to be uttered in exasperation when something’s just too much to handle. You might want to use it to describe a film like this. Making his directorial debut, Femi Oyeniran ( Anuvahood ) also plays Shawn, who’s …

With a Yorke/Philip Glass soundtrack, access to the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere cameo, Dirk Simon’s documentary about Tibet’s struggle for independence would seem to push the right populist buttons. Yet it’s a surprisingly downbeat, reflective affair, as interviews with leaders and activists reveal an unsure movement rife with internal …

It’s almost impossible, at first, to hold any scorn for Rise of the Triad, Interceptor Entertainment’s modern update of the cult classic twitch shooter. The silly one-liners, absurdly fast movement speed, and cheesy shred metal soundtrack all hark back to the days when shooters had rich color palettes and didn’t …

Black Mask is having a hell of a debut year. As well as the excellent Occupy Comics, its launch titles include supernatural grindhouse noir 12 Ways To Die , demented science fiction thriller Ballistic and Liberator . Liberator is one of the most interesting, taking the standard superhero idea of …

The Returned 1.07 “Adèle” TV review. THE ONE WHERE There’s no escape… VERDICT As is perhaps to be expected from a penultimate episode (they’re usually the calm before the storm), this is a slightly underwhelming instalment of The Returned . It doesn’t move things on very much, other than in …

Getting back together with a bunch of mates to relive a notoriously brilliant event from your past can be a tricky thing. This predicament weighs heavily on the central characters of The World’s End , a bunch of former school friends corralled into returning to their much-maligned home town to …

It’s a bad day on Black Rock for old friends Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell and Katie Aselton (who also co-wrote and directed), visiting the eponymous island to dig up a time capsule they buried as kids. After a low-key set-up – all childish recollections and catty recriminations – they meet …

Continuum 2.08 “Second Listen” (opens in new tab) Episode 2.08 Writer: Shelley Eriksen Director: David J Frazee THE ONE WHERE Agent Gardiner is killed while trying to track down the people who stole the corpses in the last episode. Gasp! Meanwhile Alec is threatened by Garza, who we discover was …

In the age of The Expendables , it’s hard for anyone to claim “I’m getting too old for this shit”. You’d think, though, that septuagenarians Al Pacino and Christopher Walken would still have enough self-respect left in the tank to steer clear of debacles like this. Fresh out of prison, …

You get two Renoirs for the price of one in Gilles Bourdos’ painterly period piece, which finds ailing artist Pierre-Auguste (Michel Bouquet) and his future filmmaker of a son Jean (Vincent Rottiers) deriving inspiration from the same feisty, flame-haired muse (Christa Theret). Set in 1915 on Papa Renoir’s balmy Riviera …