Reviews

Dir: Orlando von Einsiedel | UK Doc | 95' A quietly moving exploration of grief is set in the Highlands of Scotland and the glorious summer seascapes of Cumbria where a...

Dir.: Francois Truffaut; Cast: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claire Maurier, Albert Rémy, Guy Decomble, Patrick Auffay, Georges Flamant; France 1959, 100 min. Francois Truffaut was banned from attending the Cannes Film Festival in 1959...

Dir: Shue Matsubayashi | Japan Sci-fi, 110’ Made the year before the Cuban Missile Crisis; even in the dubbed and abbreviated version I've just watched on YouTube (the original was half...

Dir: Joseph Lejtes | Cast: Tadeusz Bialoszczyn, Witold Zacharewicz, Jerzy Pichelski | Poland, Drama 92’ The victory of the Polish military leader Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746-1817) over Poland's Russian occupiers at the...

Dir: Anthony Page | Cast: Richard Burton, Dominic Guard, David Bradley, Billy Connelly | UK Drama 95' You never knew during his later years whether Richard Burton was going to just...

Sensationalism in the media is not a new trend: as early as 1930, film production companies have been luring audiences into cinemas with spectacular war films, swashbuckling historical dramas and...

Director: Christophe Gans | Cast: Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux, Andre Dessollier | 99min.  Fantasy Drama. Germany, France Jean Cocteau's original was a pioneering piece of magic made when he turned his...

Dir: Alfred Hitchcock | Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason | Writer: Ernest Lehman 136' There's a glorious irreverence to Alfred Hitchcock's 'wrong man roadie' that makes it funny...

Wri/Dir: Lana Wachowski | Cast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Neil Patrick Harris | US action Thriller 138’ At two and a half hours all the hushed...