Dir: Mark Jenkin | CAST: George McKay, Callum Turner, Francis Magee, Rosalind Eleazar, Mary Woodvine | UK fantasy thriller 2025 Whenever fishing comes up my thoughts go out to my great...

Dir: Michiyoshi Doi | Drama, Japan 77' 1958 Reviewed by Peter Herbert A wild tale of obsessive lesbian love built on a sensitive understanding of melodrama may have been out of step...

Dir/scr: Katharina Otto-Bernstein. 2025. Germany/US. 107mins Anyone fascinated by espionage will enjoy this new documentary about the life of CIA spymaster Peter Sichel (1922-2025) who died, aged 102, after an eventful...

Dir: Antoine Fuqua | Cast: Jaafar Jackson, Colman Domingo, Juliano Valdi, Nia Long, Jayden Harville | US biopic 127' Fans who ‘grew up’ with Michael Jackson and his music and want...

Dir: Damiano Michieletto | Italy 110' There's a vague touch of Pygmalion to the idea of this earnest, classically styled Italian costume drama, although the film takes itself far more seriously...

Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Aumont) Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Laud, Francois Truffaut, Natalie Baye; France 1972/3, 116 min. Natalie Baye, who has died aged 77, rose to...

Dir: Ben Wheatley | 2026 USA Reviewed by Peter Herbert What could possibly link a feudal field in England with a modern high rise building and a small quiet town in America?...

Dir:: Greg "Freddy" Camalier | US Music Doc 108' Muscle Shoals is a town in Alabama where a particularly magical alchemy is at play. In the environment, the soil and the...

Dir: Olivier Assayas | Cast: Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, Jude Law | 152' Political Thriller Reviewed by Ian Long  Having bowed out of frontline politics, Vadim Baranov (Paul...