Out of all the distributor’s out there, Artificial Eye is one of the most exciting working in the UK today. They release wonderful new world cinema offerings in cinemas each year, and bring back old and forgotten classics and little-known gems for our enjoyment on Blu-ray. This year, they are releasing gorgeous new HD editions…
It’s a smaller selection of quality films at Union Films this week, featuring mystery, friendship, zombies and terrorism.
Uneasy, deadpan and intelligently funny, this film by Hal Hartley is a weird experience, though not one you are likely to regret having. For all its oddness, the story is consistently involving, the acting terrifically entertaining and the ending memorable and poignant. Isabelle Huppert, a superb French actor famous for work as diverse as Michael…
Lore is a film by Australian director Cate Shortland. After working in television, she then came to critical attention with her 2004 feature film Somersault, starring Abbie Cornish. Lore is her first cinema effort since then. It’s a German language film set just after the end of World War II. The film offers a savage,…
A pornography-writing ex-nun, an amnesiac and a porn star. Death, sex and a lot of things in between occur in Hal Hartley’s fascinating 1994 film starring Isabelle Huppert, Martin Donovan, and Elina Lowensohn. For the first time, this weird and unforgettable film will be available on Blu-ray in the UK, and thanks to the lovely…
Let’s start with how misleading the trailer is. Dark, gritty, and compellingly cut, this trailer promised an Iron Man movie with a serious edge. This is not it. It’s more of a comedy than the last two. The (allegedly) witty one-liners no longer pepper the script, they stain the DNA of the film. This is like…
Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland’s new film Lore was released in cinemas earlier this year to wide critical acclaim. It’s a beautifully filmed look at the lives of children in Germany in the aftermath of World War II. To celebrate the release of the film on DVD and Blu-ray, The Edge has teamed up with distributors Artificial Eye…
It’s another beautifully jumbled week of films here at Union Films with something guaranteed to tickle anyone’s film taste buds. We kick off with Flight on Tuesday, a moving drama centred on drug and alcohol abuse, followed by the French film Amour, a moving family focused drama, at our weekly Phoenix screening. Then our 5pm…
Iron Man 3 is the dramatic next instalment in Marvel’s Iron Man series, a fitting addition to Tony Stark’s explosive story. Set in the aftermath of Avengers Assemble Tony Stark (Robert Downey Junior) is suffering from PTSD, working on his Iron Man suits because he can’t sleep without suffering nightmares, and chronic anxiety attacks. However,…
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