Reviews

Wri/Dir. Michel Franco | Cast: Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernandez, Rupert Friend | Mexico/US. 2025. 100mins Films about immigration don’t have to be grainy and shot with a shaky hand-held camera. This...

Dir: Hasan Hadi | Cast: Banin Ahmad Nayef, Sajad Mohamad Qasem, Waheed Thabet Khreibat, Rahim AlHaj | Drama, 105’ Two kids and a rooster head off on a big adventure to...

Dir: Irving Rapper | Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid | US Thriller Reviewed by Richard Chatten A rollicking melodrama which marks possibly the only time an actor even managed to...

Fir: Guillaume Nicloux | Cast: Pom Klementieff, Benoît Magimel, Freya Mavor, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Anaël Snoek, Elina Löwensohn | 113’ World Premiere Moving swiftly on from his previous themes - from nuns,...

Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti | UK Thriller Reviewed by Richard Chatten Like Michael Powell, Cavalcanti ended his illustrious career in British films following a sojourn abroad with a fantasy for the Children's Film...

Dir: Julia Jackman | Cast: Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, Maika Monroe | US Drama 90' Reviewed by Ian Long 100 Nights of Hero takes place in a gnostic-inspired universe created by the...

Dir: Micha Wald | Cast: Salome Dewaels, Alexandra Lamy, Louis Peres, Candice Bouchet | Belgium, Drama 102' A Survivor’s Tale is an incredible 16th story of female courage and survival that...

Dir: Marijana Jankovic | Drama 105' Denmark/Serbia Set in the 1991, during the Balkan dissolution, this semi-autobiographical drama, based on the director's own experience, follows a family of migrants who uproot...

Dir: Yasser Shafiey | Egypt, Comedy Drama. 2025 Reviewed by Meredith Taylor A broken refrigerator is the talking point for this absurdist domestic drama, that sees Egypt’s Yasser Shafiey revitalisijg the comedy...