Regular readers won’t be surprised to hear that Because loves film.  Because also isn’t shy to make grand, sweeping statements, so we can say with confidence that Quentin Tarantino is the most important filmmaker to have emerged in the past twenty years.  His films are the perfect postmodern mash-up of pop culture reference and classic cinema history.  Because would also be ashamed to admit that we haven’t yet seen Django Unchained, but it’s because we’ve been waiting for this.

The W Film Club is one of most luxurious cinematic experiences you can have in town.  For their current series (which kicked off a couple of weeks ago with a screening of The Life of Pi 3D and continues next month with screenings of Hitchcock, starring Sienna Miller, and the all-star cast comedy Movie 43), they are showing Tarantino’s spaghetti western revenge drama at their 39-seater, state of the art HD auditorium.  With tickets at £15 (with free popcorn) and £20 for VIP tickets, that include popcorn and drink from the W Lounge Bar, Because was surprised to see that it's actually the cheapest cinema in Leicester Square.

And what can we hope for the movie?  The polymathic Jamie Foxx continuing an incredible run of form that includes movies such as Collateral and Ray, for which he won a Best Actor Oscar.  Christophe Waltz continues a collaboration with Tarantino (the last of which, Inglorious Basterds netted him an Oscar, too).  Did we mention that it also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Samuel L. Jackson?  Frankly, it’s an embarrassment of riches.  It promises to be an epic, gun-slinging drawl through the American West with comic-book patter and lashings of…well, lashings.  It’s received five Oscar nominations already (including Best Picture, another nod for Waltz and another for Tarantino’s screenplay -- the latter two have been awarded at the recent Golden Globes).  The week that it’s been on release here has already been too long to wait.  Bring on Tuesday.

Django Unchained screens as part of the W Film Club at The W Hotel on Tuesday 29 January.  Tickets are available here.

It’s official: exhibition season has started again.  With Gerard Byrne opening at Whitechapel Gallery last week, tomorrow sees the opening of Woo! A new exhibition of work by German photographer Juergen Teller.

This is Teller’s first UK exhibition in a decade.  One of the finest photographers of his generation, Teller crosses with ease between the worlds of fashion, art and advertising. Coming to prominence in the 1980s, this new show traces a line through his career.  We have some of the first images of Kate Moss, modelling at fifteen; Teller’s cover image for Sinead O’Connor’s Nothing Compares 2 You; portraits of stars including Kurt Cobain and Vivienne Westwood; and the iconic images created for the ongoing Marc Jacobs advertising campaigns.

In addition, the exhibition presents a series of works from his weekly column in Germany’s Die Ziet Magazin, and two very recent series’, Irene im Wald and Keys to the House, which explore a more personal side to the flamboyant photographer, detailing his homes in Germany and Suffolk.

Instantly recognisable, is the one overriding aspect of Juergen Teller’s work.  Across fashion, art and advertising -- each of them a world of transience of their own -- this is high praise indeed.

Juergen Teller: Woo! opens at the ICA tomorrow, until 17 March.

What Richard Did is a remarkable feat in contemporary cinema: an independent film that is both complex and subtle, that hints at greater forces and that speaks volumes within its quiet, mannered tone.

Our eponymous hero is an unlikely lead.  An alpha male.  A handsome, blue-eyed boy who is also a good-natured overachiever and his school’s rugby star.  Films like this are seldom made about men like this.  Richard’s story becomes increasingly tense when he falls for Lara, the girlfriend of his rugby teammate Conor.  If most films of this kind are about the struggles of growing up and how people cope with their coming-of-age, What Richard Did has more in common with European auteurist cinema: this is an examination of psyche and is about the limits of control.  By the time we see what it is that Richard actually did, we’re certain that the film’s denouement can only be breathtakingly abrupt.

It’s difficult to explain this film without comparing it to others of its kind, without placing it in a context.  What Richard Did defies the context that it lays for itself and is truly a gem, unlike any film you’ve seen in recent months.  The film is poetic, thoughtful and its restlessness remainders long in the memory.  A bigger name director with a bigger name star would have this plastered in multiplexes throughout the country.  See it while you’re still in-the-know.

What Richard Did is on release.