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Hunger (2008)
Director/writer: Steve McQueen | Rated: n/a (violence) | Review date: 20-Mar-2010
English artist Steve McQueen makes his feature film debut with Hunger, the historical drama focused around Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoners during the 1980s. The prisoners in the Maze prison, where the film takes place, were denied political More >
Lo (2009)
Director/writer: Travis Betz | Rated: n/a | Review date: 14-Mar-2010
Lo is one of those rare films that has the ability to tread multiple genres while not adhering to the rules or conventions of any specific one exclusively. The story is fairly simple. A guy named Justin (Ward Roberts) is More >
ThanksKilling (2009)
Director/writer: Jordan Downey | Rated: n/a (violence & nudity) | Review date: 5-Mar-2010
Jordan Downey’s ThanksKilling starts off with a smack-talking killer turkey chasing down a topless dame in colonial America, setting the stage for the rest of this preposterous ultra-low budget horror-spoof. In modern day, when five college classmates More >
Let the Right One In (2008)
Director: Tomas Alfredson | Rated: R | Review date: 20-Feb-2010
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Vampires are all the rage lately, so much so that one would think there’s very little room for creativity in the genre. Well Let the Right One In proves that to be quite the More >
Fish Tank (2009)
Director/writer: Andrea Arnold | Rated: n/a (language/strong sexuality) | Review date: 21-Feb-2010
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank has won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and after viewing it there’s no surprise as to why. The film stars newcomer Katie Jarvis as Mia, a troubled 15 year old growing More >
