Best Live Action Films

Java 4-Ever Trailer

If there was an Oscar category for ‘Best Geek Film’ Java 4-Ever would easily DDoS the competition into oblivion. https://youtu.be/kLO1djacsfg

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

Eighteen-year-old Silviu is serving out the last few days of his four year prison sentence. Called away from his manual labour, Silviu finds an unexpected

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Undertow

Undertow is very much one of those unusual film beasts, a story which sounds daft on paper but which works well on screen: in a tiny Peruvian fishing village,

Live Action, Podcasts

DN170: Kakera – Momoko Andô

When you’re born into a filmmaking family the question isn’t if you’ll pick up the camera, but rather if you’ll manage to forge your

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: The Days of Desire

From the very beginning of József Pacskovszki’s The Days of Desire something about it becomes very clear: it is absolutely stunning to look at. Scenes

Film Festival, Live Action

EIFF2010: Vacation!

Vacation! starts with a black and white, split-screen sequence in which Sugar, Lorelei, Donna and Dee-dee arrange, through a series of phone calls, to spend an

Live Action

Tango – Praiserama

When I was a kid Tango was all about overwieght orange men and impending lawsuits over hearing loss in playgrounds. Now they’re taking the orangey beats

Live Action

Samson and Delilah DVD

We've been eagerly awaiting the DVD release of Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah to see how well this tale held up to repeating viewings.

Live Action

Tell-Tale

It’s not often you come across a short that’s describing itself as an ‘erotic film noir thriller’ and I must admit, this description

Live Action

A Thousand Words

Next time time you share a fleeting moment of connection with a stranger, go for it.

Live Action

The Brothers Bloom

When Rian Johnson’s Brick came out in 2005, the class and confidence shown in the young filmmaker’s directorial debut blew me away. For those of you

Live Action

The Girl with the Yellow Stockings

When you ask someone to marry you this probably isn’t the reaction you hope for. I do love the way Grzegorz Muskala and DoP Phillip Kaminiak work in

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