Dirs: Efrain Mojica and Rebecca Zweig. Mexico /USA/France Reviewed by Peter Herbert Jaripeo is a traditional carnival dating from the 16th century in Mexico’s Michoacan region. It aims to bring together local...

Dir.: Corey Finley; Cast: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks, Francis Swift; US 2016, 91' Thoroughbreds is an impressive feature debut by director Corey Finley, who adapted the stylish...

Dir: Ferzan Özpetek | Italy, Drama 2025 What starts with a delicious al fresco lunch between a group of Italian actors - who are all female- soon becomes a contemplative script...

Dir: Francois Ozon | France 2025 112’ Reviewed by Peter Herbert  The Stranger is amongst French auteur Francois Ozon’s most uncompromising work, embracing the demands of a literary French classic with the intensity...

Dir: James McAvoy 2026. Reviewed by Peter Herbert California Dreamin’ is a wistful 1965 song by The Mamas and Papas about yearning for a better time that filmmakerJames McAvoy recalibrates here as...

Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Cast: Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini, Marcello Morante, Mario Socrate, Settimio Di Porto, Ferruccio Nuzzo | Italy 137’ In 1962 Pier Paolo Pasolini found himself...

Dir: Nicolas Ray | Cast: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield, Ron Randell | US 301’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Many eminent directors have nurtured ambitions to film the life of Christ....

Dir.: Dietrich Brüggemann | Cast: Lea van Acken, Franziska Weisz, Lucie Aron | Germany 2014, 107 min. Dietrich Bruggemann won the Ecumenical prize at the Berlinale with this religious drama that...

Dir.: Jan Komasa; Cast: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycenbel, Tomasz Zietek, Barbara Kurzaj, Zdzislas Wurdejn, Lukasz Simlat, Poland 2019, 115 min Director Jan Komasa (Warsaw ’44) adapts Mateusz Palewicz’s extraordinary story...