- The special two day Thought Bubble comic convention includes an incredible line-up of leading artists and writers, including Tim Sale (Batman, Heroes), Adam Hughes (Star Wars, Wonder Woman), Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Swamp Thing) and Posy Simmonds (Tamara Drewe, Gemma Bovery) and features over 300 tables showcasing the best that sequential art has to offer. [...]Click to read more about this film »
- The eagerly-awaited new anime adventure from Makoto Shinkai, director of the much-admired 5 Centimetres Per Second. Asuna is a young girl who has been forced to grow up fast after the death of her father. While walking home one evening she is attacked by a strange, fearsome monster. A mysterious boy called Shun rescues her [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A dazzling selection of recent artists’ cinema from some of the most interesting and engaging contemporary artist filmmakers, bringing together an eclectic mixture of ideas, aesthetics, technique and forms. Wondermental cinema has a long relationship with obscurity and these films emerge out of the shadows into the blinding light of the Microcinema space for one [...]Click to read more about this film »
- A surreal masterpiece, newly restored and subtitled, and Japan’s first feature-length underground film. One of the leading figures of Japan’s 60s avant-garde art scene, Adachi co-founded the communal living space and artist’s lab VAN Film Science Research Centre, was scriptwriter for Koji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima, and joined the Palestinian liberation movement in the early [...]Click to read more about this film »
- Like the illegitimate love child of Calvaire (The Ordeal) and The League of Gentlemen, Inbred is a distinctly un-PC gore-fest with a wicked sense of humour. Set in a remote Yorkshire village that the Tourist Board would never recommend, the stange yokels have some particularly unpleasant ‘ways’ and a distinct dislike for strangers (well, uncooked [...]Click to read more about this film »
- After targeting the eccentric political power games of Berlusconi in The Caiman (2006), Italian director Nanni Moretti parodies the hermetic inner workings of the Vatican in We Have a Pope. Perfectly-cast veteran actor Michel Piccoli plays the newly-elected Il Papa who suffers a panic attack and pulls out of all his public and private commitments. [...]Click to read more about this film »
