One of the pleasures of going to film festivals are the Q&A sessions afterwards.  If you read humour pieces regarding this aspect of the festival experience, they are often snarky little pieces about the awful questions fielded by audience... More >>

It's almost a metaphor for the intents behind the long series of projects funded by the Human Rights Commission of Korea, the idea that a penguin could manage to fly despite its evident physical limitations, but the results have often...

Fans of movies in The Bad Seed vein will want to check this out. There's some real suspense here, good performances, and even if the final twist will be too much for some to buy into, there's no doubt this...

As Keanu Reeves might say: "Whoa!" Deliciously bizarre, The Box, Richard Kelly's  meditation on the meaning of life, masquerades as a slow-boiling mystery thriller. Building on a slender, clever premise dreamed up by the great Richard Matheson in the short...

There are two directors named Chris Smith who have become favored children of the Toronto International Film Festival.  One is the fiction director who helmed horror pictures Creep and Severance.  The other is the documentarian behind American Movie and...

Ananth Mahadevan's political thriller exposes Westerners to a little known history of a decades long struggle that began in 1947 India, and escalated in '67 with the splitting of their Communist parties, and of the self proclaimed champions of the... More >>

(Our thanks to Dustin Chang for the review) Manjadikuru tells a bittersweet story about a family getting together for the funeral of its patriarch, seen through a 10 year old boy named Vicky. While the grown-ups bicker and wait anxiously... More >>

The idea for this T-o-M is simple enough (hell it's probably been done before!)... a list of directors who should make (or should have made) a zombie movie. After all, zombies are the new vampires... or is that the other... More >>

Arthouse cinema the world over is often attacked for wallowing in misery for its own sake (witness the critical reception for Michael Haneke's recent Western remake of his own Funny Games, or the backlash against Alessandro Innaritu and Guillermo...

Hot on the heels of its LFF screening, Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or winning The White Ribbon is getting a UK theatrical release on 13th November through arthouse supremos Artificial Eye."A village in Protestant northern Germany. 1913-1914. On the eve of...