In his first Australian film in almost twenty years, director John Duigan, who made the eighties teen masterpiece The Year My Voice Broke, and later its equally impressive sequel, Flirting (which I write about here), makes an interesting return with Careless Love, an extremely well-directed and brilliantly performed character study of a young prostitute set in Sydney.

Safe, the new Jason Statham action vehicle, takes a more interesting approach then his usual fare. It takes at its core the story of a derelict man Luke Wright (Statham) who saves a young Chinese girl and math prodigy, Catherine (Catherine Chan) from the Triads, Russian mafia and the corrupt police officers who are in co-hoots with them.

“The only mediator between God and man is ecstasy.” Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy continues its titular author’s fascination with the drug culture, set at the bottom of the crime world, the “mean streets” of Edinburgh, after the Danny Boyle’s classic Trainspotting.

Jean-Marc Vallee‘s (C.R.A.Z.Y. and The Young Victoria) latest film Café De Flore shows that he is one of the most interesting and talented film makers working in world cinema today.

Since X-Men reignited the super hero genre in the year 2000 after the ill-received Batman and Robin, Marvel Comics (and their film production entity) has been a forerunner in the comic industry, producing at least one adaptation of its significant catalogue in time for blockbuster season every year.

Turkey Shoot isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination. It features a host of flawed acting, flawed special effects and due to a third of its budget being taken away at the last second, some extremely flawed production design.

Hailed by Stephen King upon release in 1981 as “the most ferociously original horror film of the year”, The Evil Dead proudly continued in the footsteps of a long line of independent horror films in post World War II American cinema.

Orson Welles once said that getting a whole scene into one shot, a “oner” is what separates the boys from the men in film makers. That French film maker Mathieu Kassovitz gets two out of three “oners” right in his latest Rebellion, is somewhat telling about his film as a whole.

At 228 minutes, Sergio Leone’s final opus Once Upon A Time In America is frequently considered to be one of the longest mainstream movies in film history, but it’s so well plotted and well-crafted the time seems to fly by.

The Passion Of The Christ was a sensation even before its release. Early reports circulated that it was filmed in the dead languages of Aramaic and Latin and focused entirely on the death of Jesus Christ in brutal, blood drenched detail.