Drama > 18 years and over Drama > 2002 > up to 5 GBP

Advantages: great cinematography
Disadvantages: often a lot of misunderstandings to whever it is glorifying or portraying violence

As you may have heard, city of god is quite a muscular film that will keep you on the edge of your seat and in a sweat. The narrative follows the never ending war in between multiple gangs trying to conquere the slums of Rio de Janiero. I'll try to give you an overall idea of the film without ruining the story for you by telling what happens in the film and instead i'll try and explain what you can gain out of this film. What is shoking is the age ...
...my opinion this is what city of god is about... It will shock you due to the incredible performance of the actors that seems so real, it will make you reflect upon so many things and no, don't get me wrong. It's in no way trying to glorify violence but portraying it instead in order to show what things have been like in the past and what they are like now days in these sort of conditions. From my point of view the messege intended in the film to ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliantly acted stripping bare of hedonistic Hollywood
Disadvantages: Some may find its documentary style not to their taste

When people speak of films being powerful they are speaking of films like IvansXTC. British director Bernard Rose, best known for the lushly effective horror Candyman and Immortal Beloved, moved to Hollywood and clearly did not have a good time. IvansXTC feels like guerrilla filmmaking. Shot on digital video it has a grainy, sometimes shaky feel, like Lar von Trier and co.'s Dogme films. Based loosely on Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilych', the ...
...agent Ivan Beckman, and his coming to terms with discovering he has cancer. Surrounding him are those he cannot confide in and ultimately are using him just as much as he is using them, whether Peter Weller's gun totting, right wing, whoring star that he poaches from another agency or his girlfriend, Lisa Enos (who co-wrote the film with Rose). There are no relationships here that function normally - Weller, as star Don West, snorts cocaine from ... Read review

Advantages: Amazing film
Disadvantages: Very explicit

...and her friends are supposedly thirteen (though they clearly look a lot older). At the beginning Tracey is a shy and studious girl, who when returning to a new school year becomes allured by the popularity of Evie, a girl who has grown up a lot. This insecurity leads to Tracey changing the way she dresses and stealing in order to get the attention of Evie. This leads to a downward spiral of drug taking and self harm, with Tracey trying to deal with ...
...her mother finding out will Tracey be able to get out of her drug taking life and away from the bad influences of Evie? For me I found the way the film deals with the issues of self harm particularly engaging. Tracey begins self harming in order to deal with the emotional hurt she felt at the regection of her father and her feeling somewhat unloved by him (as he has a new family and does not give enough time to Tracey or her brother). Also the memories ... Read review