Over the course of the 1990s, Aardman, a little animation house based in England, burst onto the scene with their clever and often zany takes on the world of claymation.

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Julian Fellowes may have been born in Egypt, but Separate Lies is a distinctly British movie: a thousand pages to the script and it's all subtext. Well, that is but for one glaring exception of hugely on-the-nose dialogue. This film of marital discord and accidental murder starts off with a startling bang but then moves into super slo-mo for the next hour and a half.

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Martin Scorsese culled 60 hours of footage to thread a narrative line along this documentary about music pioneer Bob Dylan. Although a full review isn't possible (technical difficulties meant about an hour was left out of the screening), what was seen was quality documentarianism â€" Dylan in rare candid interviews talking about his influences, inspirations, and his work.

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Junebug was a critical favourite at the Sundance Festival this year and for good reasons. It has good actors with good performances, great directing, a fine script...

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From the CanCon "Weird Sex" file comes this exploration of sexual awakening as experienced by characters of different ages, genders, and orientations. With a 13-year-old boy as the lead, Thing starts with a family of environmentalists enjoying a nice nude sauna together. They live in a hay hut shack in the rural area outside of some nondescript Maritimes town.

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Some of Ireland's greatest actors and its greatest living director teams up again with writer Patrick McCabe for this alternately fun and serious view of a transvestite's travels and travails as he/she seeks out his mother who abandoned him.

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In the political world in the United States of America, no one figure is more controversial to both political parties than documentarian Michael Moore, whose 2004 feature Fahrenheit 9/11 has become one of the most widely seen documentaries in history.

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The Waldo Cumberbund Story is a unique and off-beat tale of childhood dreams about a young boy's desire to play the ukelele in a Hawaiian band.

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"Enjoy climate, comfort, and stench!!!" That's the tag line from the poster for this, another fine doc at EIFF05, followed by "featuring Hungarian revolutionaries, Christian nudists, pop stars, land sharks, hard drinkers, empty cities, failed resort towns, tons of dead fish, a dying café and a man who built a mountain."

Ah the tangled webs we weave when first we practice to irrigate a de

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Some documentaries may have interesting subjects but are real yawners. I remember struggling through Grey Gardens by the Maysles brothers.

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