Pablo Boy can be watched here It is 1999 in Florida, on the eve of the New Millennium. In a storm-swept, run-down coastal town full of boarded-up shops, smashed windows, trailer parks, and makeshift tents for the homeless, teenaged Lindsey is longing for a way out, and for change. “Maybe,” he says in voiceover, “if…
Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank world première at Tribeca, 6 June 2026 Violet and Marlowe are a loving couple of rabbits, living an idyllic-seeming life in a small farming hamlet. But when they find their fridge bare, they travel to the big city, and raid the carrot supply of the corporation that stole their…
Decorado has its Scottish première at Glasgow Film Festival, 1 March 2026 “Darling,” Arnold (voiced by Asier Hormaza) says to his wife María (Aintzane Gamiz) as they sit side by side surveying the city beyond, “don’t you feel like everything around us is very strange?” It is a reasonable question, coming near the beginning of Decorado,…
Dumbland first published by EyeforFilm, 29 June 2009 “I was just lookin’ at that shed over there,” says Randy, a moronic hulk of a man wearing a singlet and sporting three unevenly arranged teeth in his (as it will turn out) permanently gaping mouth. “I like that shed.” As these are the opening words to…
Gill had its UK première at FrightFest 2025, Monday 25 August “It’s not like I wanted to commit suicide.” This is the opening line of Ahn Jae-huun’s Gill, uttered in voiceover by an unnamed woman whom we see plummeting backwards in slow motion off a bridge into the waters below. While her fall was genuinely an…
Jonathan Zawada’s Tall Tales opens with a lighthouse on a rocky islet. As the camera slowly spins around the lighthouse in a shot that could only be achieved by CGI, the light atop the structure also rotates, illuminating the surrounding sea with a bright shaft that resembles a film projector’s beam – indeed, at one…
The Croods first published by Film4 (and here slightly altered) Meet The Croods – a family of troglodytic Neanderthals who have survived so long (unlike all their neighbours) by closely following the rules of father Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage): eschew all novelty, never leave the cave at night (and only rarely during the day),…
A Cat in Paris (Une vie de chat) first published by Film4 “I do wonder where that villain hangs out at night. Don’t you?” The speaker is Police Superintendent Jeanne (voiced by Dominique Blanc) – but although unhinged gangster Victor Costa (Jean Benguigui), recently responsible for the murder of Jeanne’s policeman husband, is still at…
Quay Brothers: The Short Films, 1979-2003 first published by Film4 in 2006 to coincide with the release of BFI’s two-disc DVD collection Summary: In these thirteen artfully animated shorts by the Quay Brothers, puppets break free of their strings, museum exhibits run riot, and the inmates take over the asylum. Review: When the BFI was in the…
Arthur and the Invisibles (Arthur et les Minimoys) first published by Film4 Summary: Set in (and beneath) a rural America of the early sixties, Luc Besson’s film is a part-animated fairytale adventure for children. Review: When Luc Besson announced that his latest directorial feature, Arthur and the Invisibles, was also to be his last, initially it seemed…
The Missing (Iti mapukpukaw) screens at HÕFF – Haapsalu Horror and Fantasy Film Festival Young adult Eric (Carlo Aquino) is woken one morning by a call from his mother Rosalinda (Dolly de Leon). She is checking in on Eric and wants to make sure he gets to work on time, but she is also worried…