Reviews

Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) started life as Detlef Sierck in Berlin (UFA), spending his early years in his parents' native Denmark and Hamburg before emigrating via France to Los Angeles just...

Dir/DoP/Editor: Elizabeth Lo, Doc 78' In Istanbul every dog has its day. Especially the city's stray dogs who enjoy an almost charmed existence in this luminous documentary debut from newbie Elizabeth...

Director: Athina Rachel Tsangari | 99min | Comedy Drama  | Greek with subtitles If you didn't get the humour in Athina Rachel Tsangari's first Weird Wave outing Attenberg, you're unlikely to...

Dir: David Drury | Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Denholm Elliott, Greta Scacchi, Ian Bannen | UK political thriller 96’ Opening with a night scene taking place in East Anglia but rather strangely...

Dir: Matt Winn | UK, Comedy satire, 90' The Trouble with Jessica is of those spiky satires that hangs on a series of conundrums, the characters tossing the ball from one...

Dir: Petr Vaclav. Czechia/Italy/Slovakia. 2022. 140 mins | Cast: Vojtěch Dyk, Barbara Ronchi, Elena Radonicich, Lana Vlady Baroque music is at the core of this sweepingly romantic classically styled costume drama...

Dir: Alexandre Tsutsunava | Georgia, Silent, Historical drama 190' On the final night of the festival, on 21st July, we took to the deckchairs in Mestia's main square to watch this...

Dir: Shawn Levy, Writers: Ryan Reynolds, Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Zeb Wells, Shawn Levy | Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney, Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni,...

Dir: Charles Frend | UK Comedy The last and least of his Ealing comedies - dismissed by Alec Guinness as "the wretched, boring 'Barnacle Bill' - which I never wanted to...