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Subgenre Sampler

 
Sky Crawlers, TheSky Crawlers, The (2008)
Dir. Mamoru Oshii
Mamoru Oshii’s (GHOST IN THE SHELL) latest head–scratcher conceives an alternate World War II–reality around another conceptually dense…
Standard Operating ProcedureStandard Operating Procedure (2008)
Dir. Errol Morris
To see or not to see: that is the question posed by acclaimed director Errol Morris as he attempts to understand what took place inside the walls of…
Stop-LossStop-Loss (2008)
Dir. Kimberly Peirce
Feat. Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum
Sincerely handled melodrama from the director of BOYS DON'T CRY, dealing with a disillusioned Texan soldier (Phillippe) who goes AWOL after returning…
Three Blind MiceThree Blind Mice (2008)
Dir. Matthew Newton
Feat. Ewen Leslie, Toby Schmitz, Matthew Newton
Playful Australian drama focused around three young Navy officers who hit the town in Sydney for one last night before they're shipped off to fight…
Tropic Thunder Tropic Thunder (2008) Aro Favourite
Dir. Ben Stiller
Feat. Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jnr., Jack Black
Ferociously funny action comedy from actor–director Ben Stiller, following a group of pretentious actors on a mission to create the biggest…
Tunnel RatsTunnel Rats (2008)
Dir. Uwe Boll
Feat. Wilson Bethel, Michael Pare, Mitch Eakins
Inept Vietnam War pic with U.S Special Forces sent into an elaborate underground maze to kill the Vietcong. By consensus this is Boll's "best"…
Un Secret Un Secret (2008)
Dir. Claude Miller
Feat. Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu
Graceful, poignant French wartime drama centred on the son of a Jewish family who uncovers a piece of unsettling family history at the time of the…
ValkyrieValkyrie (2008)
Dir. Bryan Singer
Feat. Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Wilkinson
Hollywood crosses enemy lines with Tom Cruise perversely cast as a disaffected Nazi officer who leads a plot to assassinate Hitler. Dispensing…
Waltz With BashirWaltz With Bashir (Vals Im Bashir) (2008) Recommended
Dir. Ari Folman
This striking hybrid animation is an audacious attempt to recall, through anecdote, dream, and documentary, the 1982 Israeli–Lebanon war.…
War, Inc.War, Inc. (War Inc.) (2008)
Dir. Joshua Seftel
Feat. John Cusack, Hilary Duff, Marisa Tomei
Hit–and–miss satire with Cusack as a weary hitman sent to assassinate an oil minister in a Middle Eastern country occupied by an American…

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