Reviews

Dir: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding || Cast: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Maurice Chevalier | US Musical 102’ Paramount on Parade displays little of the imagination of...

Dir/scr: Toshihiko Tanaka. Japan, drama 189' Rei is a kanji character that can represent a variety of meanings. The genderless name is therefore a really good title for this complex but...

Dir/Wri: Luc Besson | Cast: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T Gibbs | France, thriller 117' A dog really is man's best friend in Luc Besson's latest, a canine thriller, based on...

Dir: Dorothy Arzner | US Drama 63’ Interesting to compare this rather demure affair with the one pictured nearly a hundred years later in HOW TO HAVE SEX (2023). Far from being...

Dir/Wri: Molly Manning Walker | Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley, Shaun Thomas, Finlay Vane Last, Guy Lewis | UK Drama 91' What sounds like a cinematic instruction...

Dir: Andrew Haigh | Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell | UK Drama 105' Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers may well be this British director’s...

Dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov | | Kazakhstan/Russia,102' A hyper violent civil war rages across an apocalyptic landscape where gender conventions prevail in classic Western style: the men are the killers. One traumatised...

Dir: Brigitte Sy | Cast: Damien Bonnard, Laetitia Casta, Beatrice Dalle | France, Drama 97' Another example of how good actors don’t make a decent film is this  limp effort to...

Dir: Matthew Vaughn | UK Thriller 139' Pirandello meets Philip K. Dick in this disarming piece of escapism that starts out seeming to be an ultra-glossy piece of escapist hokum but...