Reviews

Dir.: Yonghi Yang; Documentary; Japan 2005, 107 min. In this intensely personal documentary Osaka born writer/director/DoP Yonghi Yang explores her father's blind loyalty to North Korea. It's a long running story of...

Dir: Robert Tronson | Cast: Bernard Lee, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, David Kossoff, Thorley Walters | UK Thriller Bernard Lee had already twice played gamekeeper-in-chief 'M' in the first two James...

Dir.: Christian Schwochow; Cast: George MacKay, Jeremy Irons, Jessica Brown Finlay, Jannis Niewöhner, Anjil Mohindra, Liv Lisa Fries, Sandra Hüller, Martin Wuttke; UK 2021, 203 min. German director Christian Schwochow -...

Dir: Stanley Kramer | Cast: Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier, Katherine Hepburn | US Drama, 108’ A curious mass of anomalies. The daring subject matter is cocooned in a very old-fashioned production...

Dir: Robert Hamer | Cast: Googie Withers, Sydney Taffer, John McCallum | 92mins  UK Thriller It Always Rains On Sunday is a tale of Post War austerity and a noir thriller rolled into one....

Dir: Ciro Guerra | Cast: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolivar, Yauenku Miguee | 122min | Adventure Drama |  Colombia Colombian writer|director Ciro Guerra's third feature is a visually stunning exploration to a heart of darkness that...

Dir/Wri/DoP: Laurent Geslin | Swiss/French Doc, 82' In the heart of the Jura mountains, a raucous call resounds through the forest. The perfectly camouflaged Eurasian lynx creeps through the trees in...

Dir.: Matt Fifer, Kieran Mulcare; Cast: Matt Fifer, Sheldon D. Brown, Sandra Bauleo, Michael Potts, Jazmin Grimaldi, Scott Adsit, Cobie Smulders; USA 2020, 96 min. Auto-fiction can be very satisfying in...

Dir/Wri: Firouzeh Khosrovani | Doc, Iran, Norway, Switzerland 82' Firouzeh Khosrovani’s prize-winning documentary chronicles her early life against the background of Iran's revolutionary recent history. Delicate and deeply moving - sorrowful even...