Silent Sonata director Janez Burger was born in a war torn country. And what he chooses to remember is not the sound of violence ringing across his memories, but his childhood and the games. Through this experience and the experience of so many, even today, losing their childhood to conflict, Burger has created a song without verses. With no dialogue, as the title may suggest, Silent Sonata tells the story of a farm in an unknown Balkan country. The father and children are coming to terms with...

Little do movies come with such praise and if you ever want a movie to hook you into world cinema than City of God is probably the one for you. Not only those it feature high on the lists of Empire and Time Out’s best foreign movies of all time, but it always takes a great ranking for cinema as a whole. Indeed, it definitely isn’t a film that should be brushed aside because it is in Portuguese and subtitles (and if you are one of the people who do that then leave this site with your head hung...

Here is a story that has been done repeatedly over in Japan, repeatedly. After extensive research (or you know, the out reaches of a certain website), I will tell you this, it started off as a book published in 1967 that would later go on to become a 1972 television series. Then in 1983 a direct book adaptation transpired which launched a song, followed by a short story parody. In 1985, a Japanese drama based one of its on the book and then 9 years later, a five episode television series...

Mads Mikkelson is certainly the man of the moment. Hailing over from Denmark, this sultry voiced actor has the Western World by his phenomenal grip. Not only appears as the violent and manipulate psychopath in NBC’s Hannibal but he has also impressed with stellar turns in the movies such as The Hunt and Casino Royale. This year sees him appear in hotly anticipated movies such as Charlie Countryman and return as the titular cannibalistic role as before. Yes, this great Dane has us all in some...

On first round, I didn’t give this film a fair go. Not that the movie, itself, was boring or awful; more like my mind was. Distraction, it hits you every now and then when watching a movie. Especially at home when you are belligerently swamped with emails from people who can’t give you a day off. Usually, I am set time aside and engross myself with a film. This time around, I couldn’t. But when it was over, I immediately realised what had happened, that I hadn’t paid attention. That nagging...