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...