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Written by Dal Robinson
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 Smells Like Sick Greasy Isolation
Director: Gerard Johnson
Main Cast: Peter Ferdinando, Ricky Grover, Lorenzo Camporese
At its heart this film has a bold vision and a powerfully uncompromising tone, but there is a wide grey line between respecting a film’s intentions and enjoying it as a complete piece of work. Gerard Johnson’s debut portrays Tony through an impartial and observational narrative, very little consequence between threads except Tony’s inability to engage with a world that seems to have neglected him. He clearly suffers from an acute psychiatric disorder, obsessive and anti-social, the neglect has left him on the fringe where his only protection from his unbearable existence is to slay those who would interfere or perhaps make him recognize his state.
Cinema Release Date: 5th February 2010
DVD Release Date: 8th February 2010 |
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Written by Emily Davies
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 Smells Like It’s Less About The Game and More About The Fight
Director: Nick Love
Main Cast: Calum McNab, Paul Anderson, Daniel Mays A reworking of cult 1989 classic, The Firm, starring Gary Oldman, Nick Love’s fifth film is yet another Brit-grit-flick, set against the dreary backdrop of 1980s south London. Illuminated by an array of sharp tracksuits and bold wedge-cut hair-dos, his astute and witty script creates a more accessible football hooligan film for audiences. The debate as to whether it’s more of a re-make than a re-working of the original however is pretty much an open debate.
DVD Release Date: 1st February 2010 |
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Written by Roxy McKilwain
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 Smells Like An Exquisite Postmodern Bouquet
Directed By: Pedro Almodovar
Main Cast: Penélope Cruz. Lluís Homar, Blanca Portillo
Almodovar’s latest combines the dangers of erotic obsession with the unreliability of memory in a wholly believable film about one woman’s struggle to be with the man she loves for love’s sake.
DVD Release Date: 1st February 2010 |
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Written by Shoshana Eilon
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 Smells Like a Journey You'd Only Want to Take in the Cinema
Director: Cary Fukunaga Main cast: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, and Kristyan Ferrer A girl and a boy are brought together journeying through central America towards the United States. Caspar’s girlfriend has been killed and he has transgressed a fundamental law of his gang. He is fleeing from the former “hombres” who are now hunting him down. Sayra’s drama lies ahead of her, with her new family she is travelling towards in New Jersey. With police and border patrol providing further obstacles, these two slowly develop an increasing reliance on each other. DVD Release Date: 1st February 2010 |
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Written by Anna Mation
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 Smells Like All Slap and No Tickle
Director: Yang Ik-Joon
Main Cast: Yang Ik-Joon, Kim Kot-bi
Violence, more specifically domestic violence, is the core subject for Yang Ik-Joon’s debut international feature. Sang-Hoon (played by the director) is a debt collector - a man immersed in the Korean criminal underworld, almost numb to the daily acts of violence he commits. However, a chance encounter with a 3rd grade schoolgirl forces him to face up to his shady past and even shadier present. Can Yeon-Hue (Kim Kot-bi) bring a level of humanity back to Sang-Hoon’s sad, lonely existence? If you can handle the blood and guts, it’s well worth joining this unlikely double act in their very emotionally charged journey of discovery.
Cinema Release Date: 29th January 2010 |
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