8.0
Points
Creator Nic Pizzolatto’s HBO series supposedly “broke the internet”, and proved one of the most passionately argued-over programs in recent television history, and with good reason, as this slowest-of-slow-burns...
7.0
Points
Writer/director Laurie Collyer’s low-budget drama features a cool cast and moving playing, and yet the lingering mood of quiet desperation makes it slightly hard to take – especially if your life...
7.0
Points
Writer/director Sally Potter’s follow-up to the flawed Yes and the underappreciated Rage is a fairly straight character piece with a fine cast and rather less of her irritatingly pretentious quirks....
6.0
Points
Producer/director Spike Lee’s most ostensibly commercial movie since his Inside Man (and his first remake) is an Americanised version of Korean filmmaker Chan-wook Park’s original (one of his infamous...
3.0
Points
This wearyingly ‘extreme’ feature début from stuntman-turned-co-writer/director/producer Kimani Ray Smith is intended as a hybrid of grindhouse horror, chopsocky actioner and sickly black comedy,...
6.5
Points
David Tennant’s in fine form (and sporting his actual Scottish accent) in this three-part BBC drama with a nasty edge, and yet he’s slightly undone by some dodgy script conveniences and at least one yawning...
Jude Law tries hard to squash his still fairly pretty-boy image with this effort from NY-born writer/director Richard Shepard, who’s always able to assemble terrific casts for films like The Matador...
This much-hyped, six-part Aussie miniseries (written by Stephen M. Irwin and Kylie Needham and directed by Kate Dennis and Peter Salmon) was recently ‘must-see’ television, and yet it features the best...
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