Apr 3, 2025
Dir: David Secter | Canada, drama 81'
The making of a positive gay film in Canada during 1965, before the legalisation of gay sex in 1969, would be a difficult proposition...
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Apr 3, 2025
A handsome new Blu Ray box set from EUREKA contains three shorts and three films Douglas Sirk made in Germany between 1934 and 1935. Das Madchen vom Moorhof (The Girl...
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Apr 2, 2025
Dirs: Leo Scott and Ting Poo | US Doc 104′
The thing about Val Kilmer was his silly humour. It shines out in this warm biopic of an actor who struck gold...
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Apr 1, 2025
Joseph L. Mankiewicz holds a well deserved reputation for creating films with strong female characters, and the ladies will love this charming romantic wallow that he made during his journeyman...
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Mar 30, 2025
Director: Michel Hazanavicius Cast: Dominique Blanc, Gregory Gadebois, Denis Podalydes, Jean-Louis Trintignant | Animation, 71' hour 21 minutes
To be considered ‘de nos jours’ every film festival must now include a...
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Mar 30, 2025
Dir.: Ken Russell; Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Christopher Gable, Kenneth Colley, Izabella Telezynska, Sabina Maydelle; UK 1970, 122 min.
Blending the crass with the ethereal - as was...
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Mar 30, 2025
Director: Wanda Jakubowska | Scr: Wanda Jakubowska, Gerda Schneider | Cast: Tatjana Gorecka, Antonina Górecka, Barbara Drapinska, Aleksandra Śląska | Drama / Poland / 110 minutes
Wanda Jakubowska (1907-1998) and her scriptwriter Gerda Schneider...
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Mar 29, 2025
Dir: Mimi Cave | Cast: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Macfadyen, Jude Hill, Gael García Bernal | US Comedy drama 108'
Andrew Sodroski
A kitschy toy-town love story that seems trite to begin with....
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Mar 28, 2025
Dir: Mikko Makela | UK/Finland/Belgium | 2024 110'
The title of Mikko Makela’s Sebastian conjures up suggestions of Yukio Mishima or Derek Jarman’s imagery around the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. The...
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