Sally Potter's latest film is an evocative and beautifully shot portrait of post-war Britain, as seen through the eyes of Elle Fanning's impressionable young teenager. She plays Ginger, who finds herself increasingly estranged from her mother and drawn further into the world of her pacifist and anti-nuclear activist father. However, her friendsh find out more...
The haunting "Into Eternity," about the folly of storing nuclear waste for 100,000 years to make it safe for future generations, is a rare hybrid: an information-packed documentary crossed with an existential art film. In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year. - David Lewis, Rotten Tomatoes
find out more...Fitfully claustrophobic submarine-set chamber drama based less on established historical fact than the conjecture, in Kenneth Sewell's investigative book Red Star Rogue, that in 1968 the Soviets secretly planned to launch a stealth attack on Pearl Harbor in order to spark a nuclear war between China and the USA. The ever-reliable Ed Harris lends much-needed ballast as Demi, the disgraced naval captain whose One Last Job rather predicatably turns into a struggle to save the world from arm find out more...