Director – Gina Prince-Bythewood – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 135m **** The warrior women of Dahomey defend their people against capture by neighbouring nations for the white foreigners’ slave trade – plays as part of Art of Action, a major UK-wide season celebrating the artistry of real action choreography at cinemas across […]
Director – Hlynur Pálmason – 2022 – Denmark, Iceland – Cert. 12a – 138m ***1/2 Winter is coming. In the late nineteenth century, a Danish priest who is also an amateur photographer travels to an Icelandic island to oversee the construction of a church before Winter comes – out to rent on Amazon Video, Sky […]
Director – Lola Quivoron – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m *** Le Fast et la Furieuse. A young woman bike thief makes her mark on a group of bikers living in a bike repair shop run from a prison by its incarcerated owner – out in UK cinemas and exclusively on Curzon […]
Director – Toby Amies – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 86m ****1/2 Life behind the scenes members of the latest iteration of the band King Crimson, the revolving door institution helmed for half a century by musician Robert Fripp, as they rehearse and perform a tour – out in UK cinemas from Friday […]
Director – Jafar Panahi – 2022 – Iran – Cert. 12a – 106m ***** An Iranian film director banned from leaving his country rents a house close to the border with Turkey, in which country he is remotely directing a film – available on the following rental streaming services from Monday, March 27th: Amazon Prime, […]
Director – Florian Zeller – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 123m ****1/2 A man and his wife must deal with the mental illness of his son by a previous marriage when he moves in with them – in cinemas from Friday, February 17th Peter (Hugh Jackman) is a successful New York lawyer with […]
Director – Park Chan-wook – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 138m ***** A married detective investigating the death of a climber becomes obsessed with the victim’s wife, who looks increasingly like the murderer – back in cinemas for one night only Monday, 13th February, on MUBI since Friday, 9th December Any sexual […]
Director – François Ozon – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 85m ***1/2 A re-imagining of R.W. Fassbinder’s all-female-cast The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, with the three central gay characters switched from female to male – plays in cinemas from Friday, 30th December Köln, 1972. Peter von Kant (Denis Ménochet) is a […]
Director – Ulrich Siedl – 2022 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 114m ***** A singer of romantic songs performs to elderly female fans (in more ways than one) in an off-season seaside town as his past catches up with him – in cinemas from Friday, December 9th following its screening in the […]
Director – Matthew Jacobs, Vanessa Yuille – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 80m **** Screenwriter Jacobs’ entry into US Dr. Who fan subculture follows his scripting of the 1996 Dr. Who TV movie that was supposed to launch the franchise Stateside but flopped – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, October 27th and […]