Oozing charm and riotous imagination in each of its lusciously animated frames, Sylvain Chomet's animated adventure casts a spell that will have you humming and buzzing long after the credits have rolled. The jazzy, rollicking adventure is largely free of dialogue but rich in unforgettable, quirky incident, as an elderly lady presses on to rescue…
It's a springtime midweek and you're sat there thinking, "what I really need right now is to sit back at my favourite Mosta cultural centre to enjoy an adaptation of a chaotic, erotically-charged ancient Roman novel by one of history's greatest filmmakers". Well, you're in luck, because Kixott is not afraid to showcase the very…
"Life begins at 3am," the tagline reads. It also reads "from the director of Swingers", who soon also became the director of The Bourne Identity. But while Go most emphatically does NOT track the journey of an amnesiac super-spy, Doug Liman's hyper-kinetic style is very much in evidence here, where 'one wild night' is seen…
One of the signature works of acclaimed German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder - which makes it one of the landmark works of European cinema by proxy - The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) takes place in a single room, but packs a strong emotional whallop for it. It's no surprise that it's gone…
Before he became the architect of the seminal fantasy franchise of our time (though crucially, AFTER his foray into gloriously schlocky DIY horror), Peter Jackson gifted both Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynskey with their feature film debuts with Heavenly Creatures. By turns beautiful and unsettling, what is ostensibly a 'true crime' story doubles up as…