Merge
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…
Caveat
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…
Oddity
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)…
Trafic
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…
PlayTime
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…
Mon Oncle / My Uncle
The second appearance of Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot character, and the film in which the character finds his niche – a good natured, perhaps naïve, everyman, overwhelmed by a world…
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
The first adaptation of the Super Mario video game series was a cartoon series produced by the powerhouse studio DIC, with live-action segments included. Although titled as Super Mario Bros,…
Super Mario Bros.
When they made their jump from video game consoles to the big screen, the Super Mario Brothers left viewers confused: the colourful worlds filled soft clouds and green pipes were…
Human Hibachi
What kind of a dinner does $50,000 buy? The clue is in the title: a meal of human flesh, presented with a professionally-edited video documenting the final 24 hours of…
Tokyo Vice
In 1993, American journalist Jake Adelstein became the first non-Japanese writer on the payroll of one of Japan’s major newspapers. Tokyo Vice recounts a turbulent period from Adelstein’s memoir of…