Author David Watson

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...

"Hoka hey!" It's a commonly held misconception popularised by Buffalo Bill and his travelling show, by dime novels and B-movies, by the organic mythology of the Old West, that this Sioux saying that Crazy...

Solitary but content, middle-aged local shepherd Anselmo (Miguel Martin) lives alone in a shack just outside of town with his dog Pillo. It’s a tough but rewarding existence - Anselmo spending long days...

Still mourning the mysterious drowning/possible suicide of her mother, teenage cyber-goth Lucidia (Alexa Davies) mooches around Aldershot with her cyber-goth friends doing cyber-goth things, which seem to...

After the sudden and suspicious death of her brother Harry, young trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns to the Somerset family cattle farm and the man she thought she’d escaped years ago; her...

There’s a great film to be made about the life of Gertrude Bell. Born in 1868 to a wealthy family able to fund her education and adventures, at 17, Bell read history at Oxford (one of the few subjects...

In the ruins of a post-apocalyptic America, former marine, Gabriel Drummer (a beefed-up Shia LaBeouf), still traumatised by his experiences serving in Afghanistan, searches for his missing wife (Kate Mara) and...

After a massacre at an isolated farmhouse, a disparate group of 80's stereotypes (the reluctant hero cop with "issues", his ex-wife, an arsey student nurse, a pregnant girl and her protective grandfather, the...

After putting her in foster care as a child, successful artist and recovered drug addict Jess (Katee Sackhoff) is desperate to build some bridges with her now full-grown, stroppy teenage daughter Chloe (Lucy...

James Gray is a genius. He must be. Everyone says so. Since sloping onto the arthouse scene in 1995 with the comically melancholy Russian Jewish shoegazing hitman drama Little Odessa and earning a Silver Bear...

SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS REVIEW “Loneliness can do strange things to the mind.” Few films leave me breathless. Shocked. Speechless. Unsettled. Disturbed. Like I’ve been filled top-to-toe with...

Divorced workaholic Seok-woo (Gong Yoo) hasn’t been the best of fathers lately, choosing the office over his daughter Su-an’s (Kim Su-an) recital and buying her the same game console for her birthday that...

More of an equal than a prequel or sequel, the events it depicts occurring simultaneously, Sang-ho Yeon's gritty animation Seoul Station charts at ground-level the runaway brushfire of the zombie apocalypse...

The zombie apocalypse has come and gone and humanity lost, the majority of the population reduced to mindless, ravenous monsters, “hungries”, by a fungal infection, passed by body fluids, that attacks...

Recovering from a broken heart and a nervous breakdown, sexy lovelorn witch Elaine (Samantha Robinson) relocates to a small town in Northern California intent on starting a new life up among the Redwoods...

When his beloved dog dies, aging hippy piano teacher Winfried (Peter Simonischek) decides to pay his estranged 30-something daughter, corporate high-flyer Ines (Sandra Hüller), an impromptu visit in an...

What a difference a year makes. Well, half a year. This isn’t what I was originally going to write about The White King. Not at all. I first saw husband-and-wife team Alex Helfrecht and Jorg...

Can a film be evil? I'm not talking about cursed films. We've all heard tales of cursed films, usually films of a supernatural bent, The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, films where cast and crew members...

Physically and psychologically scarred after a brutal attack, agoraphobic music journalist Andrew (Interstellar’s David Gyasi) lives a solitary existence, hermetically sealed in his high-rise flat, never...

After a decade in the wilderness following his last film, the ill-judged Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus, indie director Steven Shainberg returns with the last thing you’d expect, a genre movie,...