Author David Watson

For globe-trotting playboy wastrel JC (Alexander Polli) and best bud Chico (Carlos Briceno Schutte) life is one endless party. Rock stars of the BASE jumping community, they roam the world, visiting iconic...

After a drug deal with Mexican gangster Eleazar (Dion Mucciacito) and his trigger-happy goons turns messily violent, stoic, principled drug runner Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn) is forced to kill one of his...

Empowered Muslim lawyer Leila (Mouna Hawa) and lesbian Christian DJ Salma (Sana Jammelieh) share a flat and a party-girl lifestyle, rejecting the patriarchal strictures of their respective traditions in favour...

Two young disabled men working together on their own comic book, wheelchair user Zoli (Zoltán Fenyvesi) and Barba (Adám Fekete) who has cerebral palsy, find life imitating art and their lives turned upside...

Estranged sisters Leah (Francesca Eastwood) and Vee (Taryn Manning) are forced to put aside their simmering resentment when brother Michael (Scott Haze) screws up and finds himself owing a lot of money to some...

Plagued by a painful condition that causes her flesh to dry and peel, sloughing off like snake skin, beautiful, young Kira (Rebecca Forsythe) experiences a disquieting sense of déjà vu when visiting upmarket...

Angry and directionless, stuck in a mundane call centre job and drinking like he’s Oliver Reed on a Berlin stag do, Warren (Oliver Towner) is a man adrift, barely able to keep in check the rage and...

Even before Jamie Kennedy articulated them in Scream, every novice knew there were rules to surviving a horror movie. Never have sex. Don’t drink or do drugs. Never say you’ll be right back. And blah,...

SPOILERS! A disparate group of bored Canadian teens while away the long, hot, ennui-laden Summer at a drug and booze-fuelled pool party, making out, playing Truth Or Dare? and giving their siblings the kind...

A social media hero due to the subversive social justice ‘hacktivism’ stunts he posts online, genius computer programmer Mason (Chris Mason) is obsessed with his project to map the human brain, convinced...

Oz (Chase Williamson) is going nowhere fast, content to drift through life.  Quiet and geeky, he keeps himself to himself, spends his days working in a store that fixes and refurbishes old video arcade games...

Alone and isolated, disabled war veteran Steve (Jason Alan Smith) lives a relatively solitary existence. Injured in Afghanistan and obviously suffering from PTSD, he’s become a virtual recluse, getting by on...

Bringing her boyfriend home to meet the grandmother who raised her, it seems like a normal day for college student Lucy (Brittany Snow) as she steps off the subway train in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighbourhood....

A Ghost Story is a hard film to review but a deceptively easy one to summarise. A young couple, C (Casey Affleck) and M (Rooney Mara) live and love in a small rented house in smallish town Texas. A musician...

History is always written by the victors. It’s a sad fact but war crimes are only ever the preserve of the losing side. In the Summer of 1945, at the close of the Second World War, the Western coastline...

I'm depressed. The shards of hope I nursed for the future are gone, shattered by the heavy feet of prurience and pretension.  You see, last week I saw Kuso, Steve Ellison's (aka music producer Flying...

After an alcoholic nervous breakdown at work, middle aged, mild-mannered accountant Duval (François Cluzet) finds himself unemployed and unemployable. Two years later, he’s living an almost monastic...

Before it became a global franchise to rival McDonalds, it’s worth remembering that when George Lucas first set out to make Star Wars, it was only because he’d been thwarted in his attempt to get the...

A visionary director and true artist of the form, things have been a bit quiet on the cinematic front from David Lynch for the last decade or so. Sure, he's been banging the drum for the joys and benefits...

It’s become almost a sport to hate Terrence Malick, to mock him, to dismiss him as a parody of his own reclusive, enigmatic image, his films nothing more than pretentious, philosophical wool-gathering. For...

“Who can be a friend in this age?” That’s the question that beats at the heart of Kim Jee-woon’s elegantly vicious 1920s-set spy thriller transposing the twists and turns of vintage Le Carre or...