Reviews

The San Sebastian Film Festival is Spain’s only A-list event running from 22 September until 30th in the North West Spanish town on the shores of the Atlantic, and often...

Dir: Bud Boetticher | Cast: Joseph Cotton, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey | US noir thriller After a decade spent making programmers Bud Boetticher was on the verge of finding his vocation...

Dir: Rudy Valdez | US biopic with Carlos Santana | 87' This is a comprehensive and personal chronicle recounted by the Mexican born guitarist Carlos Santana, now 76, who rose to...

Dir: James B Harris | Cast: Richard Widmark, Sydney Poitier, Martin Balsam, James MacArthur | US Action drama 106’ Producer James B. Harris made his own singular contribution to the war...

Dir/Wri: Thomas Lilti | Cast: Vincent Lacoste, Francois Cluzet, Louise Bourgoin, Adele Exarchopoulos, Mustapha Abourachid | France Comedy Drama 101' Real life pals Adèle Exarchopoulos and Vincent Lacoste star in this...

Dir: Fabrice du Welz | Belgium, Thriller 88' Calvaire kicks off Fabrice du Welz’s 'Ardennes' Trilogy, a series of tortured psychological thrillers with a religious ring to them (Alleluia, Adoration) set...

Dir: Kenneth Branagh | UK Fantasy thriller 100' Venice, All Hallows Eve 1947, and the privations of the war are still haunting the lugubrious rain-soaked city in this morose horror-tinged thriller...

Dir: Jean-Luc Godard | Cast: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina | France drama 99’ In 1924 a quantum leap occurred in speculation about the future when Fritz Lang saw the Manhattan skyline...

Dir: Babak Jalali | Cast: Anaita Wali Zara, Jeremy Allen White, Gregg Tarkington, Siddique Ahmed | US Drama 91' An Afghan translator from war-torn Kabul reinvents herself as a fortune cookie...