Review Archive: March 2012
Encounters
Four gay-themed works from four very different filmmakers.
Trespass
The latest offering from director Joel Schumacher, starring Oscar-winners Nic Cage and Nicole Kidman......
Tower Heist
Eddie Murphy returns to form in this action-caper with Ben Stiller...
Don't Go in the House
The one-time video nasty finally emerges uncut in the UK.
Not Now Darling
Barbara Windsor runs around in her knickers. Leslie Phillips pervs.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Introducing a new label... 88 Films.
This Our Still Life
Andrew Kötting's loving portrait of his daughter and their Pyrenees holiday home, plus accompanying shorts.
Polish Cinema Classics
Second Run adds a quartet of Polish classics by Wajda, Munk, Kawalerowicz, and Janusz Morgenstern to its catalog
The Great Consoler
Lev Kuleshov's audacious look at the life and work of American author O. Henry.
Columbia Pictures Film Noir Classics III
Hard to get but easy to watch, this latest noir set includes some gems like The Burglar and Drive a Crooked Road
Love on a Pillow
Brigitte Bardot, plenty of style and very little substance.
The Eel
Sex, death, murder, attempted suicide and mental illness. A comedy from Shohei Imamura.
Happiness
One of the last of the Soviet silents.
Idol on Parade
Anthony Newley does National Service.
The Devils
A sumptous release of Ken Russell's controversial masterpiece...
Mother and Child
Rodrigo García's 2009 features puts in a late appearance.
Chung Kuo - China
Michelangelo Antonioni's three-part documentary on China from 1972.
Fairy Tail - Part 1
Somewhere between Pokémon and Claymore is the magical fantasy land of Fiore...