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Timmy Time

The Eye of the Storm

British-born writer Patrick White remains Australia’s only winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, yet the country’s film industry has largely steered clear of his dense, challenging prose. This ambitiously faithful but turgid stab at his most cele...

Scarecrow

In 1973, after shooting ‘The Godfather’ with Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino went back to work with Jerry Schatzberg, the director with whom he made ‘The Panic in Needle Park’ two years before. ‘Scarecrow’ gives us two dotty outsiders, Francis (Pacin...

This Is Spinal Tap

Sixteen years after its initial release, Reiner's cult mockumentary struts its stuff back into UK cinemas. Film-maker Marti DeBergi decides to make a probing documentary about British heavy metallers Spinal Tap, renowned as the world's loudest band....

Oz the Great and Powerful

It’s been 28 years since Disney last followed the Yellow Brick Road – and given the critical and commercial whipping endured by 1985’s tangled, terrifying ‘Return to Oz’, you can hardly blame them for being cautious. Such is the cultural landmark sta...

People On Sunday (Menschen Am Sonntag)

Reality

Neapolitan fishmonger Luciano is one of the most colourful characters in his bustling community. While attending a family wedding, Luciano crosses paths with former Big Brother contestant Enzo, who makes a small fortune from personal appearances and...

White Elephant (Elefante Blanco)

Pablo Trapero makes punchy, unblinking films with their eyes firmly on real-world problems – including 2010’s ‘Carancho’ and 2008’s ‘Lion’s Den’. The Argentinian’s latest plunges us into a Buenos Aires slum which sits in the shadow of a vast, unfinis...