Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences of Love is a flawed yet highly distinctive modern gangster film, boasting stunning photography, unusual pacing and a nuanced central performance from Toni Servillo.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson.

Continuing Left Field Cinema's exploration of the work of the great Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda, this episode explores one of his best films to date, a tragic drama centered around the abandonment of four children to fend for themselves in modern Japan.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson. Additions written by Wilson McLachlan.

Hirokazu Koreeda is the unsung great director of Japanese cinema. Koreeda is his nation's equivalent of Michael Winterbottom, a chameleonic filmmaker who has never told the same story twice and is a master of all styles. Paradoxically though his seven films to date all explore a re-occurring theme of death.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson. Additions written by Wilson McLachlan.

Originality vs. Good Filmmaking is explored in this edition of Left Field Cinema as we compare Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust (1980) and Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez's The Blair Witch Project (1999), two horror classics with the same conceit at their hearts.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson.

Erick Zonca's Julia (2008) is an excellent pastiche of the thrillers directed by John Cassavetes. Tilda Swinton provides a memorable performance in the titular role of Julia - the constantly dissembling alcoholic.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson.

Actor turned writer director Mia Hansen-Løve’s second feature film Father of My Children (Le père de mes enfants) is an excellent example of a two-act film.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson.

Joe Dante's The 'burbs (1989) is an succinct demonstration of how every single element of a film is of the utmost importance and how floundering on a single component can completely destroy a movie's moral balance sheet.

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot) catalogues the events that led to the collapse of possibly the greatest film never made. Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea's 2009 documentary serves as a cautionary tale for filmmakers everywhere.

Written presented by Mike Dawson.

Three reviews by three writers of three films in this the fourth edition of the Left Field Cinema Listener Reviews. This week we examine Greg Mottola's Adventureland (2009), Peter Doctor, David Silverman and Lee Unkrich's Monster's Inc (2001) and Eric Rohmer's The Green Ray (1986).

Presented by Mike Dawson. Written by Andrew Patterson, Andrew Beech Jones and Wilson McLachlan.

Renny Harlin may have directed The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) but this action-comedy thriller is most definitely writer Shane Black's film.

Written and presented by Mike Dawson.