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Flight Of The Red Balloon / The Red Balloon / White Mane
French children's classic shorts The Red Balloon and White Mane are here re-released alongside arthouse legend Hou Hsiao Hsien's first film made outside of Asia, Flight Of The Red Balloon.
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News Movie (The Onion Movie)
News Movie finally limps into your home after a troubled production history, and boy does it show. Based on 'The Onion', the popular satirical and absurd American newspaper spoof turned website, the film shows none of the dry wit and precision targeting of its online version.
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Iron Man
It's been a long time coming, but director Jon Favreau's labour of love is a worthy addition to the comic book movie canon and a refreshing, fun counterpoint to the gloomier comic fare of late.
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Starship Troopers 3: Marauder
You don't think you asked for it, but you got it anyway - it's a third Starship Troopers movie! But the draw this time is the return of Casper Van Dien, Johnny Rico from the first movie, drafted back into action to fight those pesky bugs.
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Teeth
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The subject of puberty is one richly tapped into by the horror genre. From Carrie’s first period as telekinetic massacre through to Ginger Snaps’ lupine teens getting carried away with their love bites, young girls on the way to womanhood seemingly endlessly pop up as tetchy anti-heroines.
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Gettin’ It
Thought they’d stopped churning out the American Pie cash-ins a few years ago? Well, apparently not, so here we have the latest teenage sex ‘comedy’: Gettin’ It.
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Shutter
Another month, another superior “J Horror” film (this time Thai) given a Hollywood overhaul and reduced to an uninteresting quickie designed to pad the multiplexes and not to challenge in the slightest.
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Smiley Face
There was a time when Gregg Araki was the young film auteur who looked like he would take up the rebellious mantle of an early David Lynch or a companion to Harmony Korine as an envelope pushing risk-taker whose films' only predictable aspect would be their sheer off-the-wall weirdness.
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The Oxford Murders
Director Álex de la Iglesia has always been a risk-taking maverick, from his warped debut Acción Mutante, which featured a paraplegic hero attempting to stop an intergalactic coup, to Perdita Durango with Rosie Perez.
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Street Kings
Vodka-swilling undercover cop Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) is being shaken down by ex-partner Terrence Washington, who is condemned to still wear the uniform and forego promotion due to his straight-laced ways.
