Director/Writer: Clio Barnard Cast: Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Steve Evets. Lorraine Ashbourne, Conner Chapman 93min  Drama   UK The gently rolling countryside of Yorkshire is the setting for Clio Barnard's contemporary coming of...

Director/Writer: Michalis Konstantatos     Writer: Michalis Konstantatos Cast: Nicholas Vlachakis, Eleftheria Komi, Christos Saupountzis, Connie Zikou 104min  Psychological Drama   Greek with English subtitles Michalis Konstantatos's debut feature LUTON, initially appears to have...

Dir: Nicolas Wrathhall; USA2013, 89 min Like many critics of the capitalist system, Gore Vidal, who died last year age 86, came from a very privileged background: his father Eugene Vidal...

Despite the ostentatious wealth of Moscow's elite, two films at the London Film Festival show us that modern life for ordinary Russians is still hard-going and hasn't change much since...

Director: Buddhadev Dasgupta  Writer: Buddhadev Dasgupta Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Ananya Chatterjee, Pankaj Tripathy 132 mins  Language:  Hindi  Origin: India   Drama A fruitful collaboration between the prominent Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta and the...

Dir.: Alphan Eseli; Cast: Ugur Polat, Nergis Ozturk, Serdar Orcin; Turkey 2013, 112 min.  Turkish with English Subtitles   Drama Alphan Eseli’s debut film THE LONG WAY HOME, a gruelling masterpiece centring on...

Dir. Dan Krauss: USA 2012, 79 min. To make a proper anti-war film, one has to avoid glorifying any action and Dan Krauss THE KILL TEAM shows very little war action,...

János Szász's magnificently-crafted adaptation of Agota Kristof''s French-language: 'The Notebook' (hence the title) is a lesson in history and a treasure of Hungarian contemporary cinema which has lurked much in the shadows of late. Christian...

Director: Valeria Golino  Writers: Valeria Golino, Angela Del Fabbro Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo 96min   Italy/France   Drama     Italian with subtitles [youtube id="y6D636FLP34" width="600" height="350"] Italian actress Valeria...