El Club (aka The Club) (6/10)
The Club is a group of disgraced priests of the Catholic Church in Chile who have been banished to live in a house of penance in a small town somewhere. They have been banished as
Martha Marcy May Marlene (7/10)
After the death of her mother, Marcy (Elisabeth Olsen) longs for a new family which she finds in a community of people lead by Patrick (John Hawkes). As the movie starts, we see Martha run
Remember (7/10)
The movie opens with introducing Zev Guttman (Christopher Plummer). He lives in a nursing home, where he and his friend Max Rosenbaum (Martin Landau) have made a pact. They are both holocaust survivors and since
Men & Chicken (Mænd & Høns) (5/10)
A dark Danish comedy by director Anders Thomas Jensen, Men & Chicken starts out about two brothers, Elias (Mads Mikkelsen) and Gabriel (David Dencik), with some obvious behavioural and social challenges whose father has just
Posthumous (4/10)
Posthumous starts out with the premise that an artist's work is only truly acknowledged and valued after death, and so struggling artist Liam Price decides to fake his own death. Brit Marling plays McKenzie Grain,
The East (6/10)
The East are an eco-anarchist group undertaking 'jams' - eco-terrorist attacks on greedy corporates. Actually, they don't attack the faceless corporates - they attack their leaders in person, in the belief that an eye-for-an-eye type
The Visitor (7/10)
Richard Jenkins is one of those actors most people will recognise but you're not quite sure what movie(s) you remember him from. He is a strong supporting actor, but in The Visitor he has the
The Man Who Knew Infinity (8/10)
This film tells the remarkable true story of Srinivasa Ramanujan (played by Dev Patel), who grew up in grinding poverty in Tamil Nadu at the end of the 19th century but proved to have a
Sicario (7/10)
The background to Sicario's story is the premise that the war on drugs cannot be won by playing by the rules. Or even that the war on drugs cannot be won at all, as it
10 Cloverfield Lane (8.5/10)
The basic premise is that Michelle (played by the versatile actress Mary Elizabeth Wnstead) wakes up after a car accident to find herself with a drip in one arm, her leg strapped up and manacled