Share Your Shame: Little House on the Prairie (1974-1983)
Everyone has their comfort DVDs; much like Nutella is to a down day, a feel-good watch is a damn fine tonic in an era where there’s just too much to watch, too many ways to watch and not enough...
View ArticleOut Now On DVD: Uncertainty (2011)
Uncertain of their future together, a young couple flip a coin to decide their fate and are taken on two startlingly different journeys on either side of the Brooklyn Bridge. Taking a simple theme of...
View ArticleOut Now On DVD: Third Star (2010)
In this heart-felt yet amusing emotional drama, sick James relies on his closest friends to take him on his last ever road trip before cancer consumes him, but his reliance on them weighs far heavier...
View Article£1 or Less: Closer [2004]
Two strangers stumble upon and fall for each other, until years later the man complicates things when he believes he has found love at first sight with another woman. With beautiful clarity and brutal...
View ArticleWorld Cinema: Les Choristes (The Chorus) 2004
This feel-good French film sees a group of boys in a strict boarding school blossom under the encouragement of a new music teacher, forming a choir that will unite them all. A directorial début from...
View ArticleWorld Cinema: J’ai Tué Ma Mère (I Killed My Mother) [2009]
A French-Canadian film written and directed by Xavier Dolan, this thrice award-winning film is a semi-autobiographical story about Dolan’s homosexuality and his relationship with his mother. It’s easy...
View ArticleWorld Cinema: Un Poison Violent (Love Like Poison)
Set in the lush Welsh-like landscape of Brittany, Katell Quillévéré’s directorial début is a subtle coming-of-age story focussing on 14-year-old Anna’s burgeoning sexual curiosity. When Anna returns...
View ArticleBuried Treasure: Treacle Jr [2010]
A low-budget offering from The Low Down’s Jamie Thraves, this emotional drama follows depressed family man Tom (Fisher) as he leaves his comfortable life for the streets of London, where loud-mouthed...
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