Dir.: Marielle Heller; Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtis, Anna Deavere Smith; USA 2018, 109 min.  Celebrity biographer Lee Carol Israel (1939-2014) made a decent living writing...

Dir: Karyn Kusama | US Thriller | 121’ You will gawp at Nicole Kidman’s transformation in this rather bleak and messy crime thriller cum character study of a lovelorn woman whose...

Dir: Felix van Groeningen | Drama | 110’ | US 2018 Based on a best-selling memoir by journalist David Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY explores a teenage boy's descent into crystal meth addiction. It's...

Dir/scr. Marcus Lindeen. Sweden/Denmark/US/Germany. 2018. 97 mins. THE RAFT is Marcus Lindeen's follow up to The Regretters. As another studio-based experimental film it won the top prize at this year's CPH: DOX festival,...

Dir: Jon S. Baird | Cast: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly | Comedy Drama When Stan & Ollie begins, the eponymous duo – that is, Laurel and Hardy themselves – are...

Dir.: Alfonso Cuaron; Cast: YalitzaAparacio, Marinade Tavira, Nancy Garcia, Fernando Grediaga, Veronica Garcia, Jorge Antonio Guerrero; USA/Mexico 2018, 135 min Alfonso Cuaron's sumptuous semi-autobiographical love letter to the woman who influenced...

Dir: Hajooj Kuka | Cast: Abdallah Ahur, Ganja Chakado, Ekram Marcus, Kamal Ramadan | Drama | 78’ Akasha is the feature debut of South Sudanese documentarian Hajooj Kuka, Set in the...

Dir.: Tupaq Felber | Cast: Jon Foster, Robin Isaac, Simon Meacock, James Zubari, Amanda Rawnsley |  UK 2017, 100' Tupaq Felber's monochrome musings of four friends touring the canals of southern...

Dir.: Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano Italy 2013, 105 min  Documentary This is much more than the sum of over 300 hours of documented interviews with Bernardo Bertolucci, it is an essay on...