The other day I laughed A LOT! I watched Sightseers (2012), the follow up to Ben Wheatley’s excellent crime horror thriller Kill List…
Kick-Ass (2010)
If you want to have heaps of fun watching a superhero action comedy, then Kick-Ass is the ticket! I’m not into…
Thirst (2009)
We love South Korean cinema and we love director Park Chan-wook. Park is well-known for “The Vengeance Trilogy”, i.e. the…
Angel Heart (1987)
Angel Heart is the result of superlative filmmaking. The story of Angel Heart is a powerful psycho-noir thriller. It is a puzzling, disturbing and…
Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
What a wonderful, beautiful, enchanting and original film this is. It is also dramatic, sad and frightening. Beasts of the…
The Caretaker (1963)
The Caretaker a.k.a. ‘The Guest’ is writing and acting at its very best. The screenplay is by Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Harold Pinter.…
The Hunt (2012)
This powerful and frightening drama from Denmark is not to be missed. Expertly filmed and acted, this is edge-of-your-seat cinema…
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cool Hand Luke may be a prison drama; all the same, you are going to have a helluva lot of…
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
This crime drama is a tense 2 hrs 20 min watch. Three stories rolled into one provide changes of perspective…
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Steven Soderbergh’s breakthrough cinematic debut is a series of cleverly-written sequences involving interactions between some or all of four very…
Amour (2012)
We are big fans of Austrian director Michael Haneke here on Wonderful Cinema. We have already reviewed Funny Games (1997) and Caché…
La Dolce Vita (1960)
One of the wonderful things about having a passion for films is that there is always another gem that you…