Reviews

This year’s Viennale Film festival will welcome actress Juliette Binoche as its special guest. Always reinventing herself in a variety of award-winning roles Binoche is best known for her edgy performances...

Dir/Wri: Diane Kruys | Cast: Roschdy Zem, Marina Fois, Thierry de Peretti, Raphaelle Rousseau | France Biopic 118' This enigmatic little title rather diminishes one of the greatest show-biz love affairs...

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: 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...