Ruth Patchett (Roseanne Barr) is an ordinary American housewife – she’s married, has two wonderful children and leads a relatively happy suburban life. However, below the surface, there’s something bothering her – she feels like her marriage lacks spark, with Ruth trying her best to be a good wife to her husband, the effortlessly charming…

The best way to describe 7 Reasons to Run Away from Society, the gloriously deranged anthology film directed by Esteve Soler, Gerard Quinto and David Torras, is as Monty Python coming into contact with Pedro Almodóvar. Longtime readers will know that when it comes to my personal taste, I hold very few creatives in as…

Willard Stiles (Bruce Davison) is a reserved young man who works as a clerk for the company his now-deceased father founded, which has been taken over by Martin (Ernest Borgnine), a barbaric businessman who constantly taunts Willard and forces him into submission regularly, as a way of reminding him that he’s nothing more than a…

Every now and then, someone manages to capture the zeitgeist just long enough in a cinematic form to create something unique and entirely original, yet still very reflective of not only the society we live in but also the ideals that define it. Riley Stearns, in his sophomore feature film, takes on a very strange…

Bong Joon-ho continues to push the boundaries of cinema, with every new production becoming an event all on its own. His career has consisted of a few films in which he has consistently challenged what we perceive narrative fiction to be, taking on various subjects through his own unflinching commitment to representing a different side…

Milo Tindle (Michael Caine) is on his way to a manor on the outskirts of an isolated village somewhere in the English countryside. He is there to meet a man he has never encountered, Lord Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a world-renowned writer of crime novels, who beckoned for Milo to pay him a visit. The…

Halla (Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir) is a mild-mannered choir teacher who harbours a very unconventional secret – when she is not conducting the ragtag group of citizens in harmonious arrangements, she is the infamous “Woman of the Mountain”, a activist (some would call her a vandal) who has taken it upon herself to prevent the encroaching threat…

Sometimes, we find ourselves blessed with an unexpected gift. Earlier this year, Netflix continued to prove themselves as not only one of the most rapidly-ascending entertainment providers but also the facilitator of some truly astounding and original pieces. It came in the form of an obscure short film that bears the masterful title Frankenstein’s Monster’s…

“The whole past is just fiction” I don’t think we’ll ever understand exactly what was going on in the gloriously twisted mind of Shūji Terayama, whose groundbreaking work spans a few decades and looked at growing up in a way very few artists ever managed to. Perhaps his most beloved film is Pastoral: To Die…

A nightclub singer named Yolanda witnesses her troubled boyfriend overdose on heroin that she has given to him, and knowing that she is going to be the prime suspect in his death, from both the nosy police officers set to investigate the case, and the violent underworld figures that he had shady dealings with, she…