Dir/scr: Stephen Wallis | Cast: John Cleese, Derek Jacobi, Stuart Townsend, Fiona Glasgott, Morgana Robinson | Ireland, Canada. 2023. 85’ What a great cast - but then what an odd comedy:...

Dir: Mascha Schilinski. Germany. 2025. 148, “Suffering, sighing, bleeding, dying; sealed in a stone cold tomb”. The trauma of four generations of German women is captured in this macabre patchwork portrait of...

Dir: David Miller | Susan Hayward, John Gavin, Vera Miles | US Drama 1961 Reviewed by Richard Chatten Quentin Tarantino has gone on record as being an admirer of this, the first...

Dir: Silvio Soldini | Drama 119' It sounds exciting and The Tasters is certainly a beautifully filmed but curiously un-involving drama that follows seven German women tasked with trying out...

Dir: Alex Cox. 2026 . 88' | USA Reviewed by Peter Herbert Nikolai Gogol’s 'Dead Souls' has been described as “an epic poem of hallucinatory reality pushed into the surreal “. Admired...

Dir/scr: Ruth Beckermann. Austria|Italy. 2026. 97mins “Spirituality brings us together whereas religion divides us”. A lion lounging in the sun soon perks up when he sees a man standing by his cage...

Dir: Maurice Tourneur | Writer: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Cast: Pierre Fresnay, Josseline Gaël | Fantasy Horror | France 78' Jean Cocteau was not the only French director making wartime fantasy...

Dir: King Vidor | Cast| Clark Gable, Hedy Lamar | US 1940 104’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten An ersatz 'Ninotchka' - later dismissed by its director as an "insignificant light comedy" -...

Dir: David Bickerstaff | UK Doc 2026 Reviewed by Meredith Taylor Celebrating the 250th anniversary of their births, two British iconic artists come together in a new documentary that explores the artists’...