Director – Coba Cheng – 2022 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12a – 94m **** A young man successfully markets his mother’s chilli sauce in the pandemic lockdown until the lucrative business it unexpectedly generates is taken off him– out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, July 15th and in the US and Canada […]
Director – Morgan Matthews – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 98m ***1/2 Almost four decades after the events in The Railway Children, three siblings are evacuated from the wartime bombing raids of Salford to the safer Yorkshire countryside– out in cinemas on Friday, July 15th In 1944, with Britain at war and German […]
Director – Fernando León de Aranoa – 2021 – Spain – Cert. 15 – 116m ***1/2 With a prestigious business competition coming up, a factory boss must keep the judges from stumbling upon his personal and corporate dirty laundry – out in cinemas on Curzon Home Cinema on Friday, July 15th Any day now, the […]
Director – Jay Bedwani – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 75m ***1/2 A look at the everyday life of Donna Personna, a trans activist from a Baptist background living in San Francisco – released in cinemas and on Bohemia Euphoria on Friday, July 15th This threw me at first because it appears to […]
Director – Mak Ho-pong – 2020 – Hong Kong – 12 (Camden Council) – 90m **** Three prison inmates attempt to escape so that they can attend to various pressing, personal issues– online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2022 Making Waves from Friday, July 8th to Sunday, July 10th The generic […]
Director – Masaaki Kudo – 2022 – Japan – 128m **** An underage Okinawa bar hostess attempts to raise her small son while worsening circumstances conspire against her – world premiere in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) 2022 which runs from Friday, July 1st to Saturday, July 9th A man in Okinawa club […]
Director – Jim Archer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 91m ***1/2 In rural Wales, an eccentric inventor builds a robot companion out of odds and ends, contends with the local bully and finds love – out in cinemas on Friday, July 8th, previews from Wednesday, July 6th Welcome to the reclusive world […]
Director – Justin Kurzel – 2022 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** A drama re-imagining of the events in the life of a young man leading up to Tasmania’s 1996 Port Arthur Massacre – out in cinemas on Friday, July 1st This extraordinary character study starts off with a sense of foreboding which […]
Directors – Kyle Balda, Brad Ableson, Jonathan del Val – 2022 – US – Cert. U – 87m ***1/2 Three plots involving the Minions, their pre-teen, supervillain master Gru and a gang of supervillains called Vicious 6 compete with each other – out in cinemas on Friday, July 1st This starts off bravely for a […]