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Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Stars: Ibrahim Ahmed, Toulo Kiki, Layla Walet Mohamed 2015 is proving to be a great year for creatively named animals in cinema. First Noah Baumbach gave us the diamond idea of naming twin kittens Good Cop and Bad Cop in While We're Young, and now Abderrahmane Sissako's extraordinary Timbuktu comes armed with a cow …
Director: Xavier Picard At 32 years of age, I have fond if foggy memories of watching the cartoon series of The Moomins as a child. Full disclosure right now; I've not investigated them since. Though there have been plenty of opportunities or dalliances at which I've thought I might revisit them, something else has always …
Director: Elizabeth Banks Stars: Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Anna Kendrick I'd like to start off today by telling you a little story from my experience of watching this film, but in order to do so you have to understand something. In the cinema I'm one of those spoilsports who can't relax unless the rules of …
Director: Gil Kenan Stars: Rosemarie DeWitt, Sam Rockwell, Jared Harris Tobe Hooper's 1982 film Poltergeist, while rarely a fixture at the top end of Best Horror lists, has earned itself a rightful position as a classic of its era, thanks in no small part to the considerable influence of Steven Spielberg. Thought of by many as …
Director: George Miller Stars: Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Riley Keough Mad Max: Fury Road features a handful of either cuts or fades to black wherein director George Miller generously allows his audiences a moment to gather their breath once more. One suspects the film was tested without these little oases of calm, these fleeting moments …
Director: Christian Petzold Stars: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kuzendorf Nelly (Nina Hoss) is a holocaust survivor returning to Germany soon after the end of the war, brought back to the world by her friend Lene (Nina Kuzendorf). When we first meet Nelly she is wrapped in bandages from the mistreatment wrought on her in …
Director: Marcus Nispel Stars: Brittany Curan, Kelly Blatz, Gage Golightly Abandoned mental asylums have always seemed appealing to me. These vast, self-sustaining communities exiled from the rest of the world, now left to decay. Photographer Christoper Payne has a beautiful collection under the simple title Asylum; the perfect coffee table book for anyone who can see …
Director: Tom Green Stars: Sam Keeley, Sofia Boutella, Parker Sawyers Gareth Edwards' 2010 word-of-mouth success Monsters was a great little treat (one that only narrowly missed my top 50 movies of the decade so far countdown this past weekend). A love story and road movie with a supernatural life lesson thrown in for good measure, Edwards …
And so onto the top 25. My favourite films to have appeared this decade so far. A couple of these might require justification. Mostly though they ought to speak for themselves. If anything compiling this list has made me very hopeful for the five-or-so years ahead. If they provide us with this many gems we'll …
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I try not to do lists too often on here, as I'm almost constantly making them in my personal life (it's an issue I'm comfortable with). They can seem like filler material, and too many posts of that ilk render all of them pointless. Last year, at my most indulgent, I attempted to compile a list of …
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The Lost Highway Hotel 