DIR: Francesco Stefani | Cast: Christel Bodenstein, Charles Hans Vogt | Fantasy fable | 64' The GDR did a good line in children's films during the 1950s and 1960s and, like...

Dir: David Frankel | Cast: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Justin Theroux | US Drama 119' The Devil Wears Prada was never really about fashion. The outfits, handbags,...

Dir: Roberto Rossellini | Historical Drama 126’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Described by Georges Sadoul as "A journal in six episodes of the Battle of Italy from 1943 to 1945" with a...

Dir: László Nemes | Cast: Bojtorján Barabas, Grégory Gadebois, Andrea Waskovics, Elíz Szabó | Hungary/France/Germany/United Kingdom 133′ 2025 Reviewed by Ian Long Four years after the end of WWII, Holocaust survivor Klára...

Dir: Yael Melamede | US Doc 75' Ada – My Mother the Architect is more than a biographical portrait—it’s a meditation on how architecture shapes not only skylines, but also the...

Dir: Abel Gance | Cast: Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, Leslie Caron, Vittorio De Sica | 1960 164’ Reviewed by Richard Chatten Gance's return to the subject of his greatest success Napoleon (1927)...

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...