Reviews

Dir: Carmen Emmi | 95' USA/UK co production Reviewed by Peter Herbert Plainclothes is a complex, sensitive indie film bristling with multi-layered energy exploring life’s eternal challenge of sexual repression. The main focus...

Dir/Wri: Benny Safdie | Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader | US Sports Biopic 123' | 2025 Reviewed by Ian Long  Early on in Benny Safdie‘s The Smashing Machine, a reporter...

This feel-good kitchen feature is a far cry from the realist sink dramas popular in the latter half of the 20th century. In fact it belongs to a new sub...

Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson | US Thriller 162' 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson and his co-writer Thomas Pynchon have created a fast-moving thriller, a take-down of America split by the counterculture of...

Dir: György Pálfi | Docudrama 96’. 2025 “Murder most fowl” Weird but wonderful to watch this cocky little Hungarian film from György Pálfi sets off by taking us artfully through the life...

Dir: Eugene Green | Cast: Ruin Pedro Silva, Ana Moreira, Joao Arrais, Leonor Silveira | Drama 100’ 2025 Admirers of Eugene Green (1947-) will instantly recognise his wry and resonating brand...

Dir: Harris Dickinson | Cast:Frank Dillane, Megan Northam Reviewed by Ian Long Words of Christian piety are intoned as Urchin begins. The speaker is revealed as a woman preaching on a damp...

Dir/Wri: Yann Gozlan | France, thriller 2025 When Clarissa, a successful writer, accepts a residency at the state of the art Ludovico Institute in Paris the future looks bright. Dalloway her...

Hana Korea, an impressive migration drama making its world premiere at Busan International Film Festival, centres on a North Korean woman as she escapes the totalitarian regime of her homeland...