Justin Simien’s debut feature, a crowdfunding success story and Sundance award winner, hits our screens today. Reviewed by Indy Datta.
Category Archives: New Releases
P’tit Quinquin
Deadpan surrealism, brutality and featureless tracts of dull countryside. It can only be the new film from Bruno Dumont, released in the UK on Friday. Yasmeen Khan is your guide.
Stiffed Upper Lip
Mortdecai is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Ricky Young has watched it, so you sure as fuck don’t have to.
Listen Up Philip
Niall Anderson is unimpressed with the latest from indie whizzkid Alex Ross Perry.
Hardy perennial
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy’s tale of one woman, three men and some unfortunate sheep, was back on the big screen this year. Viv Wilby feeling the pull of the past, finds its hard to better the John Schlesinger version, which is out on Blu-ray on Monday.
Spring
A horror romance is released in cinemas today. Viv Wilby enjoys the changes observed during Spring.
Tokyo Tribe
Spank The Monkey reviews the world’s first battle rap musical. Just be grateful he didn’t try to make this standfirst rhyme.
Days like these?
Sarah Slade watches We Are Many – a new documentary about popular opposition to the Iraq war – and she can’t help noticing what gets left out.
An affront to everything pure and decent and good
Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne is a cursed film, once nearly forgotten. Paul Duane dares to sample a new Blu-ray release and is alarmed to find it awakens strange impulses inside him.
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The Tribe
Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s debut feature has been wowing critics and festival juries since it premiered in Critics’ week at Cannes a year ago, universally acclaimed as the calling card of a stunning new talent, a searing whatnot of something or other. Max Fischer begs to differ. 
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