Reviews

Dir: Jean-Paul Melville | Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret | France, Action drama 145’ With the D-Landings currently commemorating their 80th anniversary here’s a film that reflects...

Dir/Wri: Matthew Brown | Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Matthew Goode | US Drama Sigmund Freud and C S Lewis debate the existence of God in this provocative imagined drama starring Anthony Hopkins...

Dir: Giuseppe De Santis | Cast Lucia Bosé, Carla del Poggio, Elena Varzi, Lea Padovani, Delia Scala, Raf Vallone, Massimo Girotti, Paolo Stoppa | Italy Drama 107’ Unusually among neo-realist dramas...

Dir: Yann Gonzalez  Writers: Yann Gonzalez, Rebecca Zlotowski | Cast: Kate Moran, Niels Schneider, Nicolas Maury, Eric Cantona, Beatrice Dalle | 98min  Comedy Drama First films are rarely as self-assured as...

Dir: Sydney Gilliatt | Cast: Peter Sellers, Mai Zetterling, David Attenborough, John Le Mesurier | UK drama Kingsley Amis only agreed to allow Launder & Gilliatt to film his novel on...

Dir: Benjamin Brewer | Cast: Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, Maxwell Jenkins, Sadie Soverall | US Horror 92’ Uninvolving post-apocalyptic thriller that sees Nicolas Cage as Paul, a harried dad living with...

DIR.: Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow; Documentary with Brian De Palma; USA 2015, 110 min. Directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's unusual but effective format for their documentary on Brian De Palma...

Dir.: Justin Pemberton; Co-Dir.: Thomas Piketty; Doc with Rana Foroohar, Professor Joseph Stiglitz, Thomas Piketty, Ian Bremmer, Francis Fukuyama; France/New Zealand 2019, 102'  Justin Pemberton makes economics anything but dry in...

Dir: Charles Chaplin Described by David Thomson as a "gloating portrait of cruelty", with characteristic modesty Charlie Chaplin claimed it "the cleverest and most brilliant film I have yet made". Although a...