xDir.: Stanley Kramer; Cast: Spencer Tracy, Frederic March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Harry Morgan, Claude Akins, Donna Anderson; USA 1960, 128 min. Director Stanley Kramer (1913-2001) often used his films for...

Dir Tom Gries | Writer: Alistair Maclean | Cast Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Richard Crenna | US | 95’ With shades of Narrow Margin to its locomotive setting BREAKHEART PASS is a Western...

“You don’t make up for your sins in Church. You do it on the streets. You do it at home.  The rest is bullshit, and you know it” Mean Streets was...

Dir: Feng Xiaogang | China | Historical Drama | 148' Feng Xiaogang (I Am Madame Bovary) is widely considered as China's answer to Stephen Spielberg, and he certainly proves himself in...

 Dir.: Delbert Mann; Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minicotti, Joe Mantell; USA 1955, 90 min. Based on the TV play by Paddy Chayevsky, who would later script Network (1976), Delbert...

Dir/Writer: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan | Mystery Thriller | 111'  Twenty minutes into Cure (Kairos) I was reminded of David Fincher’s Seven, and the first Japanese Ring film, both causing me...

Dir: Rob Curry | Tim Plester | Musical biopic Doc | UK | 94' Rob Curry and Tm Plester (Way of the Morris) retain a 1970s aesthetic for this lyrical paean...

Writer/Director: Tom Browne | Cast: Daniel Cerquiera, Gemma Jones, Richard Johnson Leonard | 80mins  UK   Drama Many of us will be familiar with the story at the heart of Tom Browne's astonishing...

Dir: Roger Donaldson | Sam Neill, Warren Oates | 107' | NZ Thriller Tightly scripted and tense, SLEEPING DOGS is the gritty political action thriller that revolutionised New Zealand filmmaking, kicking...