Sukiyaki Western Django

“Imagine El Topo remade by Suzuki Seijun, and you might have something like this East-meets-West, pop art-meets-psych, guns-and-swords fusion that Miike makes weirder by having his Japanese cast speak in phonetically delivered English with subtitles! The icing on the cake? A Tarantino cameo”.

Ben X

“A galvanizing portrait of autism and its profound impact on both the autistic person and their families and community, Ben X boldly melds virtual reality with live-action vérité style and docudrama to create what may be a new film grammar”.

Married Life

“Ira Sachs’ slyly ironic film noir relocates British crime novelist John Bingham’s Five Roundabouts to Heaven to the Pacific Northwest in the late 40s”.

Be Kind Rewind

“When Jerry pops into the corner video store – yes, video; the new-fangled DVD is banned – run by his friend Mike (a delightfully doleful Mos Def), his magnetised brain erases their entire stock. In order to satisfy the store’s most loyal renter, the two friends set out to remake the lost films, starting, improbably, with Ghostbusters, and progressing to Rush Hour II, The Lion King, Driving Miss Daisy and any number of turkeys and classics.”

CJ7

“Ever a champion of the underdog and the handmade, Chow, whose own childhood poverty informs all his movies, conjures a savior out of a junkyard – a strange alien who looks like a newly-hatched chick with huge eyes, a flubbery green body, Charlie Chaplin moves and an unstable relationship to the martial arts.”

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

“In a rich array of archival footage, home movies and intimate recollections, director Alex Gibney (Enron, Taxi to the Dark Side) zeros in on the frantic 60s and 70s when Thompson rose to fame and then infamy with his own brand of maverick, subjective journalism”.

Mechanical Love

“Compelling, disquieting and droll, this gaze at relationships ahead vividly illustrates the age-old need to love”.

Want to know when we plan to see these, and where they’re showing? Well, I made a calendar.

More great work from design students at Victoria, and this time it may be the single most awesome thing I’ve ever seen.

Stormtroopers visit the school of Architecture and Design, do a bit of recycling, check out some student work, and then attend a lecture. Are they on a recon mission to experience student life? They didn’t visit the library, of course, which is why the plans of the Empire always fail – you know, if they’d been reading more maybe they wouldn’t have missed that unfortunately designed exhaust port on the Death Star.