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BAADASSSSS (2003)
Peebles' new instalment, capturing the heroic legend behind Melvin Van Peebles (his father) is a brilliant, hard-hitting mockumentary film. The film concerns itself with the re-telling of Van Peebles senior's efforts to make the ground breaking 1971 film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the barriers he fought and overcame in his attempt to produce what is often referred to as a œrevolutionary masterpiece
BABEL (2006)
Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett and Gael Garcia Bernal lead an international ensemble of actors and non-professional actors from Morocco, Tijuna and Tokyo, who enrich Babel's take on cultural diversity. Out now on DVD.
BAD EDUCATION (2004)
Bad Education is an intriguing layer of film noir, set around the story of two reunited school friends - a heady tale that mixes sexual fantasy and manipulation, with murder, the priesthood and transvestites.
BAD SANTA (2003)
Bad Santa is not your typical Christmas film, as such comedic gold Q&A interchanges can firmly attest to. The Santa in question is the demented creation of Willie T. Stoke, possibly the worst St. Nick to ever grace celluloid.
BALLETS RUSSETS (2006)
Ballets Russes documents an illustrious history stemming back to a summer theatre in Paris in 1909. To the later emerging Russian Ballet company, spanning continents over the past 50 years as it tours outer Russia, striving for a school that reflects sheer development through beautiful expression.
BAMAKO (2006)
Bamako is Abderrahmane Sissako's poetic and deeply moving, yet highly entertaining film which brings sharply into relief the effects of globalisation on Africa.
BASIC INSTINCT (1992)
A twisting tale of a police detective's attempts to unravel a murder mystery in which a seductive female writer, Catherine Tramell. (Sharon Stone) may or may not be the killer at first comes over as a wry male fantasy.
BASIC INSTINCT 2: RISK ADDICTION (2006)
Basic Instinct (1992) seems quaint now having been parodied and absorbed into pop culture with the uncrossed legs and unconvincing nightclub sequences. Curiously, 14 years later we have a sequel. This time the location is London and Douglas' migrating buttocks have been replaced by Liverpudlian David Morrissey.
BATMAN BEGINS (2005)
Bruce Wayne fights for his life in a Bhutanese prison until noticed by the mysterious Ducard who offers to train him. After facing his fears as part of an intense training regime, Wayne returns to Gotham City where he takes on the image of the bat to strike fear into the hearts of the criminals threatening the city.
BATTLE ROYALE (2000)
Ninth grade students are taken to a small isolated island with a map, food and various arms. They have to fight each other three days long until the last one remains and are forced to wear a special collar which will explode when they break a rule.
BATTLE ROYALE II: REQUIEM (2003)
Three years after the first Battle Royale survivor Shuya Nanahara (Fujiwara) has set up his own ragtag army of terrorists dubbed the ˜Wild Seven' intent on fighting back against the oppressive adults and their government. The BRII program is created to send in a class of armed kids to Nanahara's island stronghold in an attempt to take him out.
BE KIND, REWIND (2008)
Jack Black and Mos Def star in this new comedy from the wild imagination of Academy Award-winner Michel Gondry (
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) about two best friends, one electromagnetic field, and every movie you've ever loved.
BEE SEASON (2005)
At the heart of
Bee Season lies a powerful thread of modern American family life: the yearning for perfection. On the surface, the Naumann family appears to be ideal – upper middle-class, highly accomplished, deeply spiritual, and seemingly tight knit.
BIG NOTHING (2006)
Big Nothing is the story of Charlie Wood (David Schwimmer), a frustrated, unemployed teacher who decides to take revenge on life by embarking on a supposedly fool-proof blackmailing scheme with an unpredictable scammer.
BLACK BOOK (0000)
Black Book tells the moving story of a young Jewish woman who joins the
Resistance in The Hague and gets entangled in a deadly web of double-dealing and
betrayal.
BLACK CHRISTMAS (2006)
The story of how the abused and psychologically disturbed Billy Lenz wreaked revenge on his ‘family’ one Christmas is so horrific that it’s become the stuff of urban legend and the old Lenz house still evokes a wary superstition amongst those who remember him.
BLACK GOLD (2006)
In a time where everyone is more conscious about ethical and environmental issues, Black
Gold opens up your eyes to the coffee trade and demonstrates how every person whomakes the conscious choice to ask for Fair Trade coffee can genuinely make a difference.
BLACK SHEEP (2006)
Terrified of sheep and dosed up on therapy, Henry Oldfield returns to his family's farm to sell out to his older brother Angus, unaware that something baaaad is going on: Angus' reckless genetic engineering program.
BLACK SNAKE MOAN (2007)
There was a time when Lazarus played the blues; a time he got Bojo's Juke Joint shakin' back in the day. Now he lives them. Bitter and broken from a cheating wife and a shattered marriage, Lazarus' soul is lost in spent dreams and betrayal's contempt.
BLACK SUN (2005)
After a random attack in New York in 1978 left him blinded, French painter and filmmaker Hugues de Montalembert proceeded to travel the world alone. This poetic film both tells his story and provides him with a platform for his subsequent insights.
BLACK WATER (2008)
Based on a true story,
Black Water walks the line between horror and psychological thriller and is a film with a familiar warning: Australia can be a dangerous place for a holiday!
BLINDNESS (2008)
BLINDNESS begins in a flash, as one man is instantaneously struck blind while driving home from work, his whole world suddenly turned to an eerie, milky haze. One by one, each person he encounters will in due course suffer the same unsettling fate.
BLOOD DIAMOND (2006)
Set against the backdrop of the chaos and civil war that enveloped 1990s Sierra Leone,
Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (DiCaprio), an ex-mercenary from Zimbabwe, and Solomon Vandy (Hounsou), a Mende fisherman.
Interview now running online.
BLOOD TRAILS (2006)
After cheating on her boyfriend, bicycle courier Anne agrees to go on a cycling holiday in the hope of patching things up. But jealous lover Chris is also along for the ride and Anne soon finds herself being hunted through the perilous terrain by a sadistic madman.
BOBBY (2006)
We speak with
Christian Slater and actor/director
Emilio Estevez about
Bobby. The film focuses on 22 ordinary people who unwittingly found themselves at the centre of one of the most important events in America's recent past, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
BODY OF LIES (2008)
Academy Award Nominee
Ridley Scott (
Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) directs this taut political spy thriller with outstanding performances from
Leonardo DiCaprio and
Russell Crowe.
BORAT (2006)
Sacha Baron Cohen takes his outrageous Kazakhstani reporter character Borat to the big screen. In this hilariously offensive movie, Borat travels from his primitive home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary.
Out on DVD.
BOY A (2007)
Irish director John Crowley follows on from his black comedy
Intermission, again with writer Mark O’Rowe, to offer a more serious but no less reality-driven look at juvenile offenders.
BREAKING AND ENTERING (2006)
This lively and engaging contemporary drama marks both
Anthony Minghella's return to working from one of his own original screenplays and his return to filmmaking in London.The film tells the story of a series of thefts taking place in London's.
BRICK (2006)
Every so often an American Independent movie comes out that makes you scratch your head and say: why can't we make films like this in the UK?
Brick is a modest budget thriller made with great imagination, total confidence and lashings of genre cool.
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (2008)
Brideshead Revisited is an evocative and poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence, set in pre-war England when privileged aristocracy fell into decline.
BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA (2007)
From the producers of
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe and based on an award-winning novel,
Bridge to Terabithia is a fantasy/adventure story of friendship, family and the power of imagination.
BROTHERS OF THE HEAD (2006)
Opening The 14th Raindance Film Festival last week, Directors Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe move from documentary to mockumentary with
Brothers of the Head, charting the rise and fall of fictional 70s rock band The Bang Bang and its frontmen, conjoined twins the Howe brothers.
BRUNO (2009)
The creator, star, writer and producer of
Borat and
Da Ali G Show has created the gutsiest, craziest and most dangerous comedy to be released in mainstream theaters.
BURN AFTER READING (2008)
A dark spy-comedy from Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt. An ousted CIA official's memoir accidentally falls into the hands of two unwise gym employees intent on exploiting their find. Featurette interviews with
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and
Francis McDormand running online.
