An ultra-low budget feature written by, directed and starring Ari Frenkel in the title role. Pluto lives without responsibilities care of an inherited trust fund, providing a room in his…
When Danger Mouse was first broadcast in the 1980s, I confess that I took its photographic London backdrops and regular scenes of characters walking through dark passageways, only their eyes…
The long-running Silent Hill video game series is regularly lauded as ahead of its time, daring to buck the trends of the genre of jump-scares and gore in favour of…
Billed as a romantic heist film, Marmalade has more in common with The Usual Suspects than it does to True Romance or A Life Less Ordinary. It is a movie…
Reportedly based on the already challenging film The Exterminating Angel, Joel Potrykus’s Relaxer may not be a comfortable watch for all audiences. Towards the end of 1999, obsessive, impressionable Abbie…
Billed as a feature, Merge is actually a compilation of six earlier science fiction short films. This is more like a film festival than a feature, given the lack of…
Writer and director Damian McCarthy asks a lot of his viewers in his feature film debut, but those willing to suspend disbelief for 90 minutes will be rewarded with gothic…
A year on from her sister’s murder, Darcy (Carolyn Bracken,) a woman who believes herself to be psychic, visits the labyrinthine country home of her brother-in-law, psychiatrist Ted (Gwilym Lee)…
Monsieur Hulot returns for his final screen appearance, and, after a series of films in which Jacques Tati cast his character as apparently unemployed, or barely employed, we find Hulot…
After the quirkiness of Mon Oncle, Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot returns, this time to attend a meeting at a hyper-modern Paris office. This time, Tati extrapolates the idea of filming…