Fargo

Kiss or Kill was written and directed by Bill Bennett — no, not that Bill Bennett but yet another example of the astonishing outpouring of Australian cinematic talent of the past few years. It takes as the basis of its dramatic scenario a theme that most Americans would have thought was not only thoroughly worn…

An actor’s movie — written by his brother — to show off the considerable talents of Philip Seymour Hoffman

In Snake Eyes by Brian De Palma we are presented with Nicholas Cage in the role of Rick Santoro, a loud, corrupt and casually brutal cop in Atlantic City. He gambles, takes bribes, keeps a mistress on his illegal income and rarely sees his wife and child. He knows all the angles and has a…

A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself

Zoe goes from being a party girl that the guys don’t call next day to one of the feminist legends of the West. And she owes it all to her electronic tether.

A beautiful, funny, heart-breaking story of Kurdish refugee children in Iraq on the eve of the American invasion