Reviews

Dir: Yasuzo Masumura | Japan, Drama 1964 Manji was screened in the reduced but vital archive section of this year's BFI London Film Festival and received a masterly well informed, passionate introduction...

Dir: Ardak Amirkulov | Kazakhstan Drama 98' ThIs haunting and atmospherically shot arthouse drama imagines the steppes of Kazakhstan during the deadly Soviet regime of collectivisation when it was claimed that...

Wri/Dir: Jesse Eisenberg | US Comedy 90' Jesse Eisenberg) and Kieran Culkin are the ultimate odd couple in this autobiographical buddy comedy road movie . Benji and David are cousins meeting again...

Dir: Jacques Audiard | Wris: Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Léa Mysius | Cast: Edgar Ramirez, Selena Gomez, Zoë Saldana, Adriana Paz | France, Musical thriller 129' It’s hard to imagine someone...

Dir: Joe Stephenson | Cast: Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, Ed Speleers, Eddie Izzard, Jay Leno, Eddie Marsan, Emily Watson | UK Drama 112' When Beatles manager Brian Epstein died in August 1967, at...

Dir: Bob Ellis | Cast: Norman Kaye, Wendy Hughes | Australia, Drama 91’ This Australian drama starts deceptively quietly as music teacher Wendy Hughes quietly picks up an unassuming little salesman...

Wri/Dir: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich | US Doc 74' The French West Indies' island of Martinique really comes alive in this evocative portrait of Suzanne Césaire (1915-66) with its sultry soundtrack from...

Dirs: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit | UK-USA 2024. Doc, 100min The actual voices of British Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew come alive in thanks to...

THE WILD ROBOT and its DreamWorks team were greeted by a hyper enthusiastic crowd at this year’s Annecy Animation Festival as first clips of Universal's long-awaited release, due to arrive...