Hard Truths is expectedly a hard watch. If anyone thought Mike Leigh's Johnny (Naked) or Poppy (Happy Go Lucky) were annoying, unlikeable characters to follow, Pansy truly, truly, takes the cake here. She's abusive to her family, always pinning the blame on others for her unhappiness, and usually doubles down on her behaviour. Seriously, those few scenes where she's just going about her business in public were painful to watch. But I have to it, the way she insults people…

A masterpiece of reality television. Who knows what the lines between real and fiction are in this finale for Nathan for You. How much is Bill acting up for the camera? Just how much are the so-called real people real and who are the actors? How much did Nathan and his team orchestrate these moments? You wonder these things as the people momentarily glance at the camera, as you watch the absurd reality-tv-esque moments unfold, as you listen to Nathan's…

Shall We Dance? is a beautiful film. A film with a story that could have very easily went into another direction if a lesser director were to have taken over, it would not have been such a captivating watch.

In the capable hands of director Masayuki Suo, the film has a heart and soul. People's hidden emotions and feelings are brought out through the act of dance. The main leads, particularly Sugiyama played by Kiyoshi Kurosawa regular, Koji Yakusho feels…

Though the film contains several great moments of humour, beauty and half-convincing poetic mumblings of life, ultimately the film's excitingly experimental structure of leaving the sequencing of events to the viewer (allowing the audience to choose the film's sequencing by arranging the film's 5 different parts in any sequence of their choosing) may possibly leave the process of enjoying the film with some confusion and cynicism - particularly with the seemingly scatterbrain introductions to characters, the somewhat jumbled temporal relations…