The most congested city in Europe with only 4% cycling traffic, Brussels Express is a documentary by Sander Vandenbroucke about bike messengers in Brussels. Music by Mathieu Vandekerckhove. More about the film here.
To celebrate the release of True Blood: Season Four on Monday 21st May, we’re giving you the chance to win every episode so far on Blu-ray. More
Svjetlan Junaković’s hand-drawn story is brought to life by Veljko Popović, spanning a baby’s shoes to the moon.
By Dilation Studios, The Associate tells the story of a man who “has to choose between paying money or possibly losing his life.” Impressive stuff on what was probably a tiny budget, hopefully there’s more coming from Dilation.
MRK’s amazing animation explores “the digital nature of organic molecules and biological organisms” as virtual insects are injected into a closed environment where they must fight against creations on an ever increasing scale.
For their eighth collaboration, director Tim Burton and lead actor Johnny Depp have revamped the cult TV series Dark Shadows, condensing its many episodes into less than two hours, and doing a fairly decent, if functional, job of it. More
With Mel Gibson’s career long falling by the wayside, the action star returns to his B-movie roots in another attempt to reignite his career after years of trouble in his personal life. More
Ruben Fleischer returns with something a little more serious than Zombieland and 30 Minutes Or Less, and it looks like he’s finally at home. As you might have guessed, it’s a gangster movie, set in Los Angeles, 1949, as mob boss Mickey Cohen comes up against a secret gang of LAPD outsiders trying to tear his world apart. Out in the fall.
Kangmin Kim’s gorgeous 38-39˚C “gives us the blueprint of a relationship between a father and son inside the dream the protagonist experiences while under the spell of the elevated temperatures of a bathhouse. Thick sheets of paper in exquisite arrangement represent the two men who are linked by their identical birthmarks, yet cannot seem to look at each other.” A wonderful callback to classic animation, hopefully there’s more to come from Kim.
The simple ideas are often the best. Renaud Hallée drops objects to a rhythm, that’s it, and it’s just so captivating.
