When South African street hoodlum Tsotsi pinches a car from a well-to-do suburban couple the last thing he expects to find on the back s...

I’ve been craving a good old fashioned grit-fest and wasn’t disappointed by Morelli’s  City of Men . There’s Brazilian gangsters with g...

This is a gloomy, tense depiction of the infamous Australian convict Alexander Pearce’s escape into the Tasmanian wilderness with his ga...

Certain films can be summed up in a single word. That word in Polisse’s case is ‘harrowing’. This is an undeniably gritty, fly on the wall...

  In a similar vein to Y Tu Mama Tambien , Sex, Party and Lies can be confidently filed in the sub-genre of grittiness known as Sexy-G...

Arthur (Albert Finney) works in a Nottingham factory . He's not that happy in his job and he lives for the weekends, when he can dri...

This was a retrospective of shorts from Brazilian filmmaker Dennison Ramalho. My ratings will be based on comparisons with other shor...

The Clough family apparently loathe The Damned United in book and film form, and I started watching the film with some trepidation th...

Sin Nombre is a down to earth American/Mexican hybrid based on life in South American gang culture. It's an unusual film in tha...

This is a bizarre film. It's interesting and thought provoking, however not necessarily that awe inspiring. The premise of the...