Film Reviews

N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.

When Ethan's older brother Greg is found dead, the police rule the case a suicide, but Ethan suspects foul play stemming from Greg's recent involvement with a martial arts team called the Scorpions. Ethan is also accomplished at martial arts, and he determines to join the Scorpions as a means of learning what really happened to Greg. - Written by Michelle Sturges

After being committed for 17 years, Michael Myers, now a grown man and still very dangerous, escapes from the mental institution (where he was committed as a 10 year old) and he immediately returns to Haddonfield, where he wants to find his baby sister, Laurie. Anyone who crosses his path is in mortal danger

Once upon a time... consumer goods were built to last. Then, in the 1920’s, a group of businessmen realized that the longer their product lasted, the less money they made, thus Planned Obsolescence was born, and manufacturers have been engineering products to fail ever since. Combining investigative research and rare archive footage with analysis by those working on ways to save both the economy and the environment, this documentary charts the creation of ‘engineering to fail’, its rise to prominence and its recent fall from grace.

Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.

La cerrada comunidad de “Altos de la Cascada”, un barrio privado de casas de alto precio, se conmueve con el hallazgo de tres cadáveres que aparecen flotando en una piscina y se apresura a encuadrarlo como accidente. Es el punto de partida para que a través de la vida de algunos matrimonios que allí habitan, Tano (Pablo Echarri) -gerente de una multinacional- y Teresa (Ana Celentano), Ronnie (Leonardo Sbaraglia) que vive a expensas de su esposa Mavy, una agente inmobiliaria (Gabriela Toscano), el pusilánime Martín (Ernesto Alterio) y su insatisfecha esposa Lala (Gloria Carrá) y los recién llegados Gustavo (Juan Diego Botto) y Carla (Juana Viale), la película intente una descripción del sector social que compone ese tipo de comunidad y, por extensión, a un sector más amplio de la sociedad de la época.

A hunt for a spy, in an hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.

The US President and the UK Prime Minister are looking to launch a war in the Middle East. The plot follows government officials and advisers in their behind-the-scenes efforts either to promote the war or prevent it. Spinal Tap meets Strangelove. A satirical demolition of Whitehall and Washington: politically astute, hilarious and terrifyingly real.

A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, California, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother’s gang. This is the first English film by Takeshi Kitano.

An adaptation of Petronius' satire about the decadent life in ancient Rome. "If you like the Fellini version, you should definitely see this one, too. It's every bit as good and in some ways better."

An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.

Adventures of a cocky con man and his glamorous accomplice.

A half-fiction half-documentary story about sport and it's importance in everyday life.

A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.