Director – Danny Boyle – 2010 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m UK release date 07/01/2011, cert. 15, 93 mins The trailer for this gives a pretty good impression of about its first third. Experienced, youthful and single outdoor explorer Aron Ralston (James Franco) mountain bikes through the Utah landscape, meets a couple of […]
Directors – Moses Bwayo, Christopher Sharp – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 121m ***** Aided by his wife Barbie, Uganda’s opposition leader, the musician Bobi Wine, takes on the country’s corrupt dictator of 35 years President Museveni, in the run up to the 2021 election – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September […]
Director – Neil Maskell – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 84m ***** A couple have seen something; two men are assigned to look after them as they wait in the middle of nowhere for a journalist to come and interview them – a subscription exclusive on BFI Player from Thursday, February 22nd Mr. […]
Director – Neil Marshall – 2005 – UK – Cert. 18 – 99m ***** A group of female friends go on a caving expedition…which then goes horribly wrong – review originally published in What’s On In London, 2005; 4K Restoration out in UK cinemas Friday, October 24th 2025 Here’s something different: a caving movie. Tough […]
Director – Paul Robinson – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 81m ***1/2 The deep friendship of a Devon farmer and a local vet is tested by the UK government’s culling of herds in the 2001 Foot And Mouth outbreak – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 1st Michael (David Fielder) is a […]
Director – Christian Petzold – 2022 – Germany – Cert. 12a – 102m ***** Two male friends’ plans to stay in his mother’s woodland house are disrupted by first a car breakdown, then a female guest of his mother’s, and finally forest fires – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 25th Summer. Leon (Thomas […]
Director – Nicholas Maggio – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 110m **** Needing money to pay off debts, a family man, mechanic and racer gets sucked into a robbery by his uncle, then finds himself working alongside a mob killer hired to clean up the loose ends of the crime – out in […]
Director – Maximilian Erlenwein – 2022 – Germany – Cert. 15 – 91m ***1/2 Two women go diving near a remote stretch of coastline and find themselves in trouble – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 25th following its UK Premiere at Frightfest on Thursday, August 24th Opening with an image of light shining […]
Directors – Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 92m **** The teachers and students at a theatre camp rehearse their annual Summer show, their unscrupulous, with the camp’s founder unconscious in hospital, while the nearby, upmarket, rival camp attempts to close them down and possess their land – faux […]
Director – Louis Garrel – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 99m ***1/2 A trusting woman marries a soon-to-be-released convict in prison only for her suspicious son to start following him after the man’s release and soon find himself out of his depth – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 25th Warning: plot […]