Reviews

Dir.: Jack Clayton; Cast: Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Ambrose Phillipotts, Donald Wolfit, Allan Cuthbertson; UK 1959, 115. Min. Jack Clayton (1927-1995) is one of the most underrated of British...

Dir: Jean Mamy (as Paul Riche) | cast: Maurice Remy, Marcel Vibert, August Boverio, Gisele Parry | France, Thrille 53' Freemasonry continues to be viewed with deep suspicion in many quarters...

Dir/Wri: Russell Owen | UK Horror 103’ A little bit style over substance, Shepherd is an effective but rather overwrought third feature from Welsh writer/director Russell Owen, with Greta Scachi as the...

Dir: Cleo Cohen | Israel Doc Cléo Cohen’s directorial debut is a highly personal exploration of her own identity as the granddaughter of Jewish Arabs who emigrated from Tunisia and Algeria...

Dir: Chloe Fairweather | UK Doc, 84' This grim but worthwhile documentary - the UK's Oscar Academy hopeful - greets us with the news that one in three Turkish women experience...

  Dir.: Ousmane Samassekou; Documentary; Mali/France/ Germany, 2021, 85 min. Malian director Ousmane Samassekou has filmed random travellers from all over North Africa in a transit home in Gao, near the Sahara...

Dir.: Reinaldo Marcus Green; Cast: Will smith, Aunjanue Ellis, Saniyya Sidney, Demi Singleton, John Bernthal, Tony Goldwyn; USA 2021, 138min. The success story of mammoth tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams...

Dir: Erika Etangsale | France, Doc 50' In her delicately atmospheric meditation on identity and colonial origins Erika Etangsale uses silence, a soft ambient soundscape and an impressive editing technique as...

Dir.: Saeed Taji Farouky; Documentary with Thein Shwe, Hwte Tin, Zin Ko Aung; France/Switzerland/Netherlands/Palestine; 90 min. The day to day life of a family in the Magway region of Myanmar, home...