Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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Silicon Valley: Season 1 (2014)
8.6/10
Starring: Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, Josh Brener, Amanda Crew, Kumail Nanjiani, Martin...
From the offbeat minds of Alec Berg and Mike Judge ('Office Space'), 'Silicon Valley' is a comedy series set in the high-tech gold rush of modern Sili... Read more
Whiplash (2014)
8.5/10
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Paul Reiser, J K Simmons, Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist
A young and talented drummer attending a prestigious music academy finds himself under the wing of the most respected professor at the school, one who... Read more
Whiplash (Blu-ray) (2014)
8.5/10
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Paul Reiser, J K Simmons, Miles Teller, Melissa Benoist
A young and talented drummer attending a prestigious music academy finds himself under the wing of the most respected professor at the school, one who... Read more
The Wind Rises ( Blu-ray ) (2013)
7.8/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
The great Japanese animator Miyazaki Hayao has announced his retirement at the age of 72. If he sticks to his word he will have gone out on a sublime... Read more
The Wind Rises (2013)
7.8/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
The great Japanese animator Miyazaki Hayao has announced his retirement at the age of 72. If he sticks to his word he will have gone out on a sublime... Read more
Omar (2013)
7.6/10
Director: Hany Abu-Assad
Starring: Adam Bakri, Leem Lubany, Samer Bisharat
Like the Palestinian towns across the West Bank split by high Israeli walls, Omar (Adam Bakri) is a divided man. A baker by trade he must scale the co... Read more
Broadchurch: Series 1 (2013)
8.4/10
Starring: David Tennant, Olivia Colman
When an 11 year-old boy is discovered murdered at the foot of the cliffs that dominate the Dorset down of Broadchurch, two police officers with contra... Read more
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
7/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Slater, Connie Nielsen, Jean-Marc Barr, Stellan...
A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men... Read more
Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1 & 2 (Blu-ray) (2013)
6.9/10
Director: Lars von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Christian Slater, Connie Nielsen, Jean-Marc Barr, Stellan...
Volume 1: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundre... Read more
Starlet (2012)
6.8/10
Director: Sean Baker
Starring: Dree Hemingway, James Ransone
An unlikely friendship forms between twenty-one-year-old Jane and the elderly Sadie after Jane discovers a hidden stash of money inside an object at S... Read more