Director – Bassam Tariq – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m **** A UK British Pakistani rap artist is stopped in his career tracks by an auto-immune system suppression illness – in cinemas from Friday, October 30th and on BFI Player Subscription Exclusive from Friday, February 5th This opens with British Pakistani rapper […]
Director – Josephine Decker – 2020 – US – Cert. 15 – 107m **** Notorious author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband are seen through the eyes of a young couple invited to stay in their house – in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, October 30th The real life Shirley Jackson was […]
Director – Natalie Erica James – 2019 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 89m ****1/2 A daughter and her mother must look after their ageing grandmother in her house which seems to possess a dark character – in cinemas and platforms including BFI Player from Friday, October 30th and now Shudder UK from Tuesday, 11th […]
Killing (Sawamura) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 2018 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 79m *** [Update: The Adventures of Denchu Kozo streams on the Arrow Channel from Friday, May 3rd 2024.] The Adventures of Denchu Kozo (Denchu kozo no boken) Director – Shinya Tsukamoto – 1987 – Japan – 45m **** Haze Director – […]
Director – Robi Michael – 2019 – US – 97m ***1/2 Reality disintegrates around a man tormented by the accidental, childhood death of his sister – on VoD from Monday, October 26th People who’ve apparently died then come back to life have often reported the sensation of going down a dark tunnel towards the light, […]
Subdue the forest WolfwalkersDirected by Tomm Moore and Ross StewartCertificate PG, 100 minutesPreviews from 26 October, released 30 October, then on Apple TV from 13 December The tree cutters attempting to clear the forest around the walled town of Kilkenny, Ireland, live in fear of wolves. They also believe in WolfWalkers – human by day, […]
Director – Jamie Patterson – 2018 – UK – Cert.15 – 80m ***** An ageing drag queen with weeks to live takes a younger performer under his wing – British film dealing with gender fluidity and death is available on BFI Player from Thursday, March 17th Are you straight? So is spaghetti – ’til it […]
Director – Akira Kurosawa – 1958 – Japan – Cert. PG – 138m *** Currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the Japan programme alongside 21 other Kurosawa films together with a much wider selection of Japanese movies. Captured by soldiers, two wandering bumpkin farmers (Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara) are put waist deep in […]
Directors – Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger – 2020 – US – Cert. 12 – 123m ***1/2 Documentary looks at the Trump administration’s handling of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US – in cinemas from Friday, October 23rd and on iTunes, Amazon, Google, BFI Player, Curzon, Sky, Rakuten, Virgin. On […]
Director – John Woo – 2017 – China, Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 109m ***** Hong Kong action director John Woo’s return to form – currently on Netflix. The late Japanese actor Ken Takakura who died in 2014 appeared in more than 200 films and made his name playing ex-cons and gangsters for Toei […]