Reviews

Dir.: Joseph Losey; Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, Emerson Tracey, Wheaton Chambers, John Maxwell; USA 1951, 92 min. The Prowler was Losey's favourite among the five Hollywood features he directed before...

Dir: Benjamin Ree; Documentary with Barbora Kysilkova, Karl Bertil Nordland, Øystein Stene; Norway 2020, 102 min. Norwegian filmmaker Benjamin Ree follows his Sundance award-winning portrait of chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen with...

Dir: Alexander Mackendrick | Drama | UK 83' Celebrating its 65th Anniversary The Ladykillers was the last of the legendary Ealing Comedies., a subversively amusing caper that proves the undeniable civilising...

Dir/Wri: Gero von Boehm | DoP: Sven Jakob-Engelmann | 89' Gero von Boehm dives deep into the life and work of maverick German fashion photographer Helmut Newton (1920-2004) for a second look. Back...

Dir: Malgorzata Szumowska | Wri: Catherine S McMullen | Cast: Raffey Cassidy, Michiel Huisman, Denise Gough | Ireland-Belgium, US. 92' Malgorzata Szumowska's first English language film has a striking visual aesthetic and a storyline...

Dir/Wri: Ben Sharrock | Cast: Amir El-Masry, Sidse Babett-Knudsen, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Kenneth Collard | UK Drama, 103' A group of refugees fetch up on a remote Scottish island in...

Dir.: Rob Lemkin; Documentary with Femi Nylander, Amina Weira; UK 2020, 88 min. This new documentary sees Joseph Conrad's 1899 novel 'Heart of Darkness' from the natives' perspective. Oxford University student...

Wri/Dir: John Parker | UK Drama 56mins A woman’s paranoia proves to be more than just a nightmare, in John Parker’s influential 1953 horror film Dementia. Made on a shoestring and...

Dir/scr. Emily Harris. UK. 2019. 95 mins. This exquisite-looking atmospheric drama based on Sheridan Le Fanu’s female vampire tale is a blood-drained version of the original spine chiller. 'Carmilla' pre-dates Bram Stoker’s...