Wednesdays aren’t great, all things considered – the relaxation of last weekend has totally worn off, the prospect of Friday night is at least two days away and you can’t ever quite shake the knowledge that whatever happens, you will still die alone. Still, two for the price of one’s a bloody good offer, eh?
How do you know what you’re going to see at the cinema next month? You’re busy people – Facebook won’t update itself, and you’ve probably got a relationship to neglect or something. Oh, you haven’t? Sorry. Well, there’s no point in trying to meet another human adult now, you may as well just read this blog.
Unpredictable, unsettling and sometimes excruciating viewing, Tirza is nevertheless a deeply affecting account of one man’s descent into despair. Seeming at first to be a simple tale of a father’s search for his lost daughter, Tirza quickly becomes an uncomfortably dark exploration of parenthood, sexuality and the need to feel wanted. Director Rudolf van den Berg’s confident handle on the many layered plot means that we never lose faith in the story, however much we begin to question our increasingly unreliable narrator…
The Reef is rightly called the scariest shark thriller since Jaws And we have 5 DVD copies of The Reef to give away! Competition ends 18 February 2011
Screened as part of the UK Jewish Film Festival, Religion.com is a documentary exploring a unique socio-cultural dilemma in modern Israel. In ultra-orthodox Bnei Brak, the traditional Haredi Jewish community live for the most part without the internet. In a society where it was until recent times, illegal to even print the words ’email’ or ‘internet’ in a newspaper, can an advertising executive convince a Haredi Rabbi that it’s time for things to move into the 21st century?
You can um and ah about what to order for your viewing pleasure this Christmas, but there really is only one list – and we’ve got it. You can thank us later, for now; grab a fresh piece of paper, get your stocking ready and pray you’ve been good this year. Santa is on red-alert for the ultimate Christmas wish-list.
Halloween is a time for scary movies with a high sugar and fat content. Cast aside nutritious award-winning scares and shun that well-received Scandinavian or Japanese horror… It’s time to pig out on the scary movie equivalent of tarty/spooky Halloween costumes, apple bobbing and dodgy home-made punch with jelly spiders in it. What does the world want out of a truly great Halloween movie? PURE NONSENSE!
And so we continue with our odyssey to find the 10 best Halloween movies of all time. Let bad taste and good taste rub shoulders this Halloween, just as the dead rise up to greet the living…
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