Director – Sam Quah – 2019 – China – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** A family stands together when their daughter kills the local police chief’s son who is both a rapist and blackmailer – available to rent online in the new Chinese Cinema Season 2021 in the UK & Ireland. This opens with a […]
Director – Grégory Magne – 2019 – France – Cert. tbc – 100m **** In Cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, August 21st GuGuillaume (Grégory Montel) is a chauffeur. His boss Arsène (Gustave Kervern) is thoroughly fed up with him, so gives him a job with a known difficult customer Mademoiselle Walberg. Guillaume […]
Director – Sadaf Foroughi – 2017 – Iran – 102m ** 1/2 Available on VoD from Friday, August 21st Ava (Mahour Jabbari) is a schoolgirl studying music – against the wishes of her parents, particularly her straight-laced and conservative mother Bahar (Bahar Noohian) who thinks music isn’t a real job and her daughter should consider […]
Director – Egor Abramenko – 2020 – Russia – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** some of the underlying concepts and all of the special effects ** everything else Available on VoD from Friday, August 14th. Now on Netflix In the early 1980s a two-man Russian spacecraft undergoes a mysterious incident during its return to Earth […]
Director – Matteo Garrone – 2019 – Italy – Cert. PG – 125m ***** In cinemas from Friday, August 14th, on BFI Player rental from Monday, December 14th Impoverished woodcarver Geppetto (Roberto Benigni) decides to make the greatest puppet the world has ever seen, tour the world with it and make his fortune. A wood […]
Director – Shannon Murphy – 2019 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 118m ***** In cinemas from Friday, August 14th and on BFI Player from Monday, December 7th Uniformed schoolgirl Milla (Eliza Scanlen) stands on a platform ill at ease with her classmates. The train comes in. Before she can move to get on it, […]
Director – Kim Ki-young – 1974 – South Korea – 111m ***** Buddhist, monastic drama. Celibacy confronts carnal desire and a new senior monk must be chosen as the incumbent nears death. Free to view in the Korean Film Archive as part of Korean Film Nights Online: Trapped! The Cinema of Confinement (Friday, July 17th […]
Director – Yoshihiro Nakamura – 2009 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** I review Fish Story for All The Anime. A comet threatens to destroy life on Earth. Three years earlier a religious cult attempts a ferry hijack. In the 1970s a punk band records and disbands before the Sex Pistols do. Welcome […]
Ring Director – Hideo Nakata – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Spiral (Rasen) Director – Joji Iida – 1998 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 97m ** 1/2 Ring 2 Director – Hideo Nakata – 1999 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 95m ***** Ring 0 Director – Norio Tsuruta – […]
Director – Mounia Meddour – 2019 – France, Algeria, Belgium, Qatar – Cert. 15 – 108m **** In selected cinemas (Curzons Bloomsbury and Mayfair). Also on Barbican cinema on demand, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema and Peccadillo Pictures On Demand from Friday, August 7th. Algerian university fashion student Nedjma (Lyna Khoudri) is often called ‘Papicha’, […]