Written and Directed by David Mackenzie Adapted from the novel by Alexander Trocchi Young Adam grabs your interest right away when the dead body of an attractive young woman, wearing only a petticoat, is found floating in a Scottish river. Joe, a young drifter, first spots her and is affected …

Director Yoji Yamada Written by Yoshitaka Asama and Yoji Yamada Based on the novels Tasogare Seibei, Chikkou Shiatsu and Iwaibito Sukehachi by Shuhei Fujiwara Although the title Twilight Samurai brings to mind an action film, it is actually a wonderful tale about the love between a man and woman, between …

Written, Directed and Edited by KIM Ki-duk The film was Korea’s entry for the 2004 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The title reveals that the film is going to be about the cyclical nature of life and of man. The setting is a monastery that floats on a …

Written and Directed by John Carlos Frey Although presented as a fictional drama, The Gatekeeper serves as a factual expose about the plight of illegal immigrants who pass through Mexico into the United States. Their journey is an all-too-common tale fuelled by the hope and promise of a better future …

Directed by Michel Gondry Screenplay by Charlie Kaufman Story by Charlie Kaufman & Michel Gondry & Pierre Bismuth Over the weekend I went on a 45-minute bike ride. It was the only extensive bit of exercise I had performed in months. During the last leg, I had to get up …

Directed by Wolfgang Becker Written by Wolfgang Becker & Bernd Lichtenberg The review for Goodbye, Lenin! fell into my lap because another reviewer was put off by the synopsis. Admittedly, the premise sounds very odd and a tad corny, reminiscent of an episode of Three’s Company. The year is 1989 …

Directed by Paul McGuigan Screenplay by Mark Mills Based on the novel Morality Play by Barry Unsworth The Reckoning is an interesting murder mystery set in a small English village at the end of the 14th Century. While the plot starts out with the protagonist, Father Nicholas, unraveling the mystery …

I don’t know why I was surprised that yet another story about Jesus won’t die. A week has gone by since the opening of The Passion of The Christ, and tonight I had the misfortune to hear Pat Robertson and Sean Hannity talking about the film. Their faith has skewed …

Directed by Michael Winterbottom Written by Tony Grisoni In This World tracks the story of two Afghan refugees attempting to make their way from a Pakistani refugee camp to the promised land of London, England. There’s a sequence late in the film of the main characters working in Italy, which …

Written and Directed by Larry Blamire Nowadays, kids don’t have to watch a bad movie if they don’t want to. What with DVD players in their bedrooms, cell phones that work as walkie-talkies, game consoles, portable Internet access, and up to 500 channels on TV, they can now be entertained …