- For Juan and his rag-tag bunch of Cuban slackers, a new revolution is about shake up their laid-back Havanan lifestyle. Juan of the Dead has a bit of everything for fans of the genre: zombie splatter, belly laughs, great characters, social and political comedy, and laconic Cuban style. A crowd-pleasing zombie comedy with intelligence, shedding [...]Click to read more about this film »
- In this wacky and shocking crime comedy from Leeds favourite Katsuhito Ishii, a failed actor is forced to smuggle dead bodies in a world full of underground bankers and crazed fashionista yakuza killers. Kinuta discovers his first ‘cargo’ consists of slaughtered yakuzas, including the headless corpse of Boss Tanuma. The killers, ultra-assassins Vertebrae and Viscera, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Eco-Pirate profiles the controversial environmental crusader Captain Paul Watson, a man on a mission to save the planet and its oceans. He repeatedly flouts the law to apprehend what he sees as the more serious law-breakers, the illegal poachers of the world. Featuring gripping verité sequences shot aboard his ship, the film interrogates his personal [...]Click to read more about this film »
- An engrossing documentary portrait of an an often overlooked figure of immense cultural influence, Leonard Percival ‘Gong’ Howell, a Jamaican man born at the turn of the Twentieth Century who formed Pinnacle, the first Rastafarian community in 1939. After travelling the world as a sailor and encountering radical ideas from Bolshevism and anarchism to Gandhi, [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Marxists and nudists and vegans oh my! Life goes from hippie heaven to hellish anarchy when a housewife and her two precocious kids move into a ‘70s commune unleashing a maelstrom of suburban values. As the belligerent beatniks and commitment-phobic communists start questioning their beliefs, they realise living in harmony can be all-out war. After [...]Click to read more about this film »
