Wri/Dir: Tamara Kotevska | Doc 2025 Blending folklore with the contemporary this simple but far-reaching fable carries with it the tragic reality of 21st century life. But there’s always hope.  The legend...

Dir: Marcelo Caetano | France/Netherlands/Brazil 2024 105 min Reviewed by Peter Herbert Marcelo Caetano’s Baby opens with a young man’s release from prison. Facing a troubled future there are nonetheless signs that he...

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova | Spy thriller 1966 Reviewed by Richard Chatten Hitchcock's fiftieth film continues to be grievously underrated; although it broke even at...

Dir|Writer: David Lynch | Cast: Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange, Priscilla Pointer | US | Fantasy thriller | 120min In the recent eponymous documentary...

Dir/co-Wri: Chloe Zhao | Cast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Joe Alwyn, Zac Wishart, Emily Watson | UK Drama 125'. 2025 This imagined drama about how Shakespeare and his wife came to...

Dir: Clifford Odets | Cast: Rita Haworth, Anthony Franciosa, Gig Young | US drama 1959 Reviewed by Richard Chatten Backed by solid production values in the form of photography by James Wong...

Dir/Wri: Sofia Alaoui | Cast: Oumaïma Barid, Mehdi Dehbi, Fouad Oughaou | Sci-fi Morocco 91' 2025 In her impressive debut Animalia Moroccan-French filmmaker Sofia Alaoui tells the story of a young...

Dir: Fritz Lang | Cast: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper | US Western drama. 1940 Reviewed by Richard Chatten   Fonda actively disliked working with Lang on this sequel to Fox's great...

Dir: Annabel Jankel | War Biopic | UK/Hungarian Reviewed by Peter Herbert Viewers with long memories may recall the 1942 Raoul Walsh/Errol Flynn film Desperate Journey in which the crew of a...