V for Vendetta – the revolution still wears a mask James McTeigue | Cast: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry John Hurt | UK Political thriller There are films that...

Dir: Costa-Gavras | France thriller 1965 Few films make such exhilarating use of a train as The Sleeping Car Murders (Compartiment tueurs). A brilliantly constructed murder mystery, it combines the claustrophobic...

Dir: Bryan Forbes | UK Drama 1967 The Whisperers: Bryan Forbes’ haunting portrait of old age still has plenty to say There is something quietly devastating about Bryan Forbes’ The Whisperers, a...

Dir: Alex Cox | US Western 88’ 2025 Alex Cox rides into the sunset with a decidedly crooked take on the American West in Dead Souls, a mischievous, politically charged Western...

Dir/Wri: Richard Hawkins | UK Drama 102’ 2025 There are few more bizarre British propositions than the idea that, in the middle of the Second World War, the authorities might decide...

Katharine Round | Uk Doc 64’ Ghost Town is a hauntingly offbeat road movie that turns a taxi into a confessional on wheels, traversing a Japanese coastal town where the ghosts...

Few filmmakers have reinvented the language of cinema as radically as Artavazd Pelechian. Artavazd Pelechian (February 22, 1938-) is a renowned Armenian-Soviet filmmaker and theorist famous for creating the "distance montage"...

I Play Rocky: The underdog takes on Hollywood Peter Farrelly’s crowd-pleasing account of how Sylvester Stallone fought to become Rocky Balboa opens Cairo’s 47th International Film Festival. There is a plucky irony...

Dir: Robert Aldrich | US Psychological Drama 107’ Robert Aldrich takes what initially appears to be a conventional melodrama and steers it into considerably darker psychological territory, with Joan Crawford playing...