Reviews

Director: Luchino Visconti | Cast: Burt Lancaster, Anna Mangano, Helmut Berger, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Cortese | 120min | Drama | Italy Conversation Piece is often as poignant as Death in Venice but...

Geheimnisse einer Seele ( | Dir: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Germany 97' Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s Geheimnisse einer Seele (Secrets of a Soul) is considered one of the earliest films about Sigmund...

With its reputation for being quirky and offbeat. Rotterdam focuses on independent and experimental films. Vanja Kaludjercic, the festival's director, unveiled this year’s 55th edition, running from 29 January –...

Dir/Wri: Guillermo del Toro  US. 2025. Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, David Bradley, Lars Mikkelsen, Christian Convery, Charles Dance, Christoph Waltz | 149’ Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein...

Dir: Ken Annakin | Cast: Stanley Baxter, Leslie Phillips, Allan Cuthbertson | Uk Comedy Stanley Baxter, who has died aged 99, was a comedian, actor and impersonator best known for his...

Dir: Josh Safdie | Cast: Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Abel Farrara | US biopic drama  Chalamet is Marty Mauser a gutsy guy punching his way to the top in this messily-plotted...

Dir: Jacques Tourneur | Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball | US drama Reviewed by Richard Chatten Despite the title the living in this foray by Jacques Tourneur into the very masculine...

Dir/Wri: Scarlett Johansson | US Drama 2025 Actor Scarlett Johansson makes her directorial debut with Eleanor the Great, an insightful and bittersweet drama that views intergenerational friendship and family conflict from...

Dir: Kate Winslet | UK Drama 90 Directing for the first time with a script by her son Joe Anders, Kate Winslet assembles a starry cast for a bittersweet crowd-pleaser about...