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Posted at 4:12pm Friday 09th Mar, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 SUBMARINEDir: Richard Ayoade. Starring: Craig Roberts, Noah Taylor, Sally Hawkins.
The similarity of Craig Roberts to Bud Cort on the DVD cover, coupled with an opening wherein his introverted 15-year-old Welsh schoolboy Oliver imagines his own death – a very funny, almost Princess Di scale outpouring of grief and tributes – brings to mind...
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Posted at 3:25pm Friday 02nd Mar, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 13 ASSASSINSDir: Takashi Miike. Starring: Koji Yakuso, Takayuki Yamada and Yusuke Iseya.
Prolific Japanese maverick Takashi Miike occasionally makes perfectly conventional films, which act as a poke in the eye for detractors of his more extreme stuff because they’re just so damn good.
With 13 Assassins, the director tackles the samurai genre,...
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Posted at 4:10pm Friday 24th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHINDir: Jose Padilha. Starring: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, Andre Ramiro.
After his ground-breaking documentary Bus 174, director Padilha made Elite Squad, a rough violent Rio-set actioner that exposed corruption within the police fighting gangs and drugs in the favellas. This time he takes on the entire system and the results...
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Posted at 3:05pm Friday 17th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 THE TRIPDir: Michael Winterbottom. Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon.
First of all, an apology. Last week’s ‘Pick of the Week’ – Texas Killing Fields – accidentally ended up with five stars. It should have been four. I liked it, but not quite that much. And I like this week’s pick a lot. It’s not a film with...
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Posted at 11:43am Friday 10th Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 TEXAS KILLING FIELDS
Starring: Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain. Dir: Ami Canaan Mann
Daughter of Michael Mann – who serves as producer here – Ami Canaan Mann has worked mainly as a television and film writer. Her one previous film as director (2001’s Morning) won awards, but was largely unnoticed. Here she moves...
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Posted at 4:24pm Friday 03rd Feb, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 How I ended this summer
Dir: Aleksey Popogrebskiy. Starring: Grigoriy Dobrygin, Sergey Puskepalis
Not to be confused in any way with I Know What You Did Last Summer, this is a Russian film, a taught investigation of mistrust and isolation which very much defines the term “psychological thriller”.The set-up is simplicity itself: at a polar...
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Posted at 4:35pm Friday 27th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 TROLL HUNTER
Dir: Andre Ovredal. Starring: Otto Jespersen, Robert Stoltenberg, Knut Nærum
There’s something very appealing about eccentrically grand follies (and I’m not using that word in a pejorative sense): a unique idea, absolutely pointless, but carried out with great style. That’s pretty much where Trollhunter sits. It’s...
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Posted at 11:16am Monday 23rd Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 THE TREE OF LIFE Dir: Terrence Malick. Starring: Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, Sean Penn
Opinions have been sharply divided about The Tree of Life, illustrated perfectly by the fact that it was booed at the Cannes Film Festival when it won the top award. And indeed it is a challenging film. But at the very least it sets its sights high, aiming at nothing...
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Posted at 3:08pm Friday 13th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
It wasn’t the greatest year for big family action films, but a few stood out in the crowded field of insipid superheroes.
X Men: First Class was the pick of comic book bunch though there were frustrations amongst its fine moments. Michael Fassbender made a great Young Magneto, though where his Irish accent came from (and where it goes to) remain...
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Posted at 4:02pm Friday 06th Jan, 2012 | By Winston Watusi
 Another year begins and – as is traditional – I’ve been trawling through memories of last year’s viewing: the things on DVD and Blu-ray that have stuck in my mind.
The biggest development through 2011 was the blossoming of 3D. There are now 3D Blu-rays out there (for people who have the requisite equipment) but the real change...
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