Teknolust (2002)
Oct 17, 2014Woman Creates Copies of Herself
Strange film where Tilda Swinton creates three copies of herself
James Urbaniak
Fortunes (2005)
Jan 28, 2011Fortune Teller's Prophecy/Indie Film
Frustratingly insipid indie slice-of-life film following three guys affected by a fortune-teller's prophecy, this never surmounts the banalities of its characters' lives
The Girl from Monday (2005)
Aug 26, 2021Satiric Future/Alien Visitor
Hal Hartley was one of the foremost independent directors of the 1990s. Here he makes a film set in satiric future dominated by the advertising industry featuring a visit from an alien girl
Death of a President (2006)
Aug 17, 2007The Assassination of George W. Bush Mockumentary
Mockumentary that caused outrage at the time in depicting the assassination of then-sitting US President George W. Bush. This does not hold back in some damning political punches
Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Aug 27, 2017Lost in a Cardboard Labyrinth
A man builds a cardboard maze in his living room only for he and others to become lost in it. This has a wonderfully inventive scrappy handmade eccentricity. Imagine Cube remade as one of Michel Gondry's sweded films
Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay (2018)
Apr 8, 2018Animation/Team-Up of DC Comics Super-Villains
A DC Universe Original Animated Movie given over to Suicide Squad. Clearly inspired by the live-action film, this goes overboard on the super-villains present, having three entire teams running around to general confusion, while striking a very odd tone in its pitch for an R-rating
Things Heard & Seen (2021)
Apr 10, 2023Ghost Story
Ghost story that seems to be intended to play to a more literary level than most of its contemporaries