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Don’t let the fancy-sounding English accents fool you. Harry Brown is a vigilante flick, pure and simple, a bleak and bloody blending of Death Wish and Gran Torino starring Michael Caine that just happens to be set in England.
Caine plays an ex-serviceman living in a South London neighborhood where gangs of drug-pushing punks [...]

This might be our biggest Foreign Film Feature yet, with 28 films from overseas in this month’s roundup. Take a look through the list below, there’s a lot worth checking out!

In the history of cinema, there have been few genres that have been as thoroughly examined as the gangster movie. Dating to the early days of silent film, when the German expressionists were likely the first true practitioners of the ‘noir’ aesthetic, there have always been a handful of directors [...]

Italian cinema was once distinguished for its postwar “neorealism” movement, with films that were shot on location in a stripped down, almost documentary style, exemplified by titles like Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1946) and de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948). Times seem to have changed, though not necessarily for the worse. With a [...]

Korean director Joon-ho Bong has surely proven to be a versatile director with his new film Mother. The Host, which he made in 2006, was an entertaining twist on the “Japanese monster” film and the stimulus for the American film, Cloverfield. It was a monster film with thought. So as I [...]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a film that I was completely oblivious of. So in other words, I went into this film blindly. What this film presented was a surprisingly interesting plot that often reminded me of films such as Erik Skjoldbjærg’s Insomnia. The visualization of pain and [...]

For a filmmaker who has fashioned a career out of dissecting the savage torpor of modern existence, Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon comes as something of an oddity. A story of strange occurrences in a tiny German hamlet on the eve of WWI, the film carries with it a bundle of [...]

The following list represents all of the films from overseas that we’ve received in the last 30 days – we hope it will help you catch up on whatever you may have missed! Our recommendations are marked with a red star:

The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski said of the making of his masterwork The Decalogue, “We know no more than you. But maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”
Kielowski created influential works that delved into man’s relationship [...]

A martial drum beat, bagpipes, security lights in the blackness of a tunnel hurtle by like tracer bullets, then sunlight and blue sky. So opens The Girl on the Train and it’s hard to escape metaphorical preconceptions of life in/as motion when viewing this film. The best advice? If you want a [...]