The 50 Word Review

Dogma 95-cinema at its best, Mifune’s storytelling combines unforgiving realism with an erratic charm that leaves you strangely uplifted. Despite the film’s dealing with one of Dogma’s favourite topics – dysfunctional family life – Mifune has a heart-warming quality that turns it into the possibly most unlikely feel-good film ever. Sabine Wolf

Starring Steve Carell as an ‘Agony Uncle’ - who dishes out tales of caution and morality - as a single parent. He falls for his brother’s girlfriend, falls foul of his siblings, and children, and realizes that he is not the perfect person, or parent that he always wrote about in his column. There’s a moral in there somewhere. Brian Murray

Typical Woody Allenesque movie with fantastic jokes that are nostalgic reminders of his earliest works. With a touch of meta-fiction and postmodernism, this is sophisticated and hilarious! Omid Nikfarjam

Split in to six separate narratives, each movie has a happy, loving ending. Advani has done a good job in combining elements such as romance, humour, tragedy, leading to understanding the emotion of love. Whilst the movie is only a one-time watch, the songs make up for it all! Neha Kumar

I was looking for a mindless rom-com chalk-full of cheesy acting and instead I found a really great flick. Not so much comedy, but a thoughtful look at relationships and how they fuck us up. Brilliantly acted by the entire cast, TLK is a pleasant surprise, a diamond-in-the-video-store-rough.

Cristina Pittelli

Mos Def and Jack Black are the village idiots left in charge of a falling down video shop – allegedly the birthplace of jazz legend Fats Wallace. In a bid to rescue the joint they remake video classics like Robo-Cop, the Rush Hour franchises and Driving Miss Daisy. In parts hilarious but disjointed, occasionally flirts with being a cheesy community movie. JJ

A great thriller about five gangsters involved in a heist. One of them is a traitor with big plans to pocket all the money and elope with his girlfriend. While the traitor is revealed in the beginning, the twists and turns in the movie keep you engaged until the end. Neha Kumar

In its attempt to portray modern Europe’s sexy young people as a cutely disoriented bunch caught up in vaguely ‘globalised’ stumblings and jumblings, this film annoys with an advertising-like aesthetic. A suspiciously good-looking cast in a plot so anemic that TDR might as well be a commercial for light beer. Sabine Wolf

HB is the stuff of stoner legend. Dave Chappelle provides the guidance for a team of potheads to spring their friend from behind bars. With character names like Mary Jane Potman, Simpson Samson and Thurgood Jenkins - a.k.a. Sir Smoke-a-Lot - director Tamra Davis created an underrated comedy classic. JJ

A sober look at the experience of first love in the late 1960s. It somewhat reminded me of the atmosphere in Mike Nichols’s Graduate, so if you liked that, you’re going to love this one which is a decent adaptation too. Beautiful soundtrack. Omid Nikfarjam