Director – Derek Drymon – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 96m ***** SpongeBob is duped by a ghostly pirate into undertaking a quest in the underworld which will have disastrous consequences for him – anarchic and inventive animation is out in UK cinemas on Friday, December 26th The big day has arrived. SpongeBob SquarePants […]
Director – David Cronenberg – 2024 – Canada, France – Cert. 15 – 120m ***** An entrepreneur who has created graveyard corpse-viewing technology to cope with his late wife’s death by cancer finds his inner world disrupted when his creation is vandalised and hacked – The Shrouds is out on UK digital from Monday, August […]
Director – Christopher McQuarrie – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** Tom Cruise’s eighth and director Christopher McQuarrie’s fourth Mission: Impossible outing delivers up to par globe-trotting action set pieces and considerably more plot than last time – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 21st When Tom Cruise made his first […]
Director – Gary Hustwit – 2023 – UK – Cert. 12a – 83m **** (on this occasion) Musician, artist and activist Brian Eno has been at the cutting edge of creativity for 50 years, and this generative, AI-programmed film plays in a different version every time it is shown – 24-hour online screening event 5pm […]
Director – Bertrand Bonello – 2023 – France – Cert. 15 – 146m ***** Required to expunge her emotions by the ruling AI of 2044, a woman with a sense of dread revisits her past lives in 1910 and 2014 and their incarnations of the love of her life – curious mix of art house […]
Directors – Hans Block, Moritz Reisewieke – 2024 – US – Cert. – 87m ***** People deal with bereavement with the help of interactive versions of their deceased, loved ones recreated by AI – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 28th In a rare visual shot in this mostly verbally based documentary, an aerial […]
A Fatal Belief The BeastDirected by Bertrand BonelloCertificate 15, 146 minutesReleased 31 May As satisfying as it is infuriating, this French genre-bender is part science fiction, part period costume drama and part literary adaptation. It’s based on Henry James’ 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle, in which a man refuses to marry the woman […]
Director – Robert Hloz – 2023 – Czech Republic – Cert. 15 – 113m ***** A detective investigates the murder of a couple, one of who helped create the technology for restoring people to life after they die – thought-provoking SF thriller is out UK on digital on Monday, April 1st In essence this is […]
Director – Alex Lykos – 2023 – Australia – Cert. 12 – 87m ***1/2 A man attempts to live for 30 days without the use of his smartphone, tablet or computer – out on digital from Monday, April 1st This documentary opens with an advisory to keep your phone handy during the screening, as you […]
Director – Natalie Kennedy – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 94m **** Struggling with writer’s block, a successful author checks in to an AI-controlled retreat facility only for a virus to wreak havoc on the software which runs it, turning her into a prisoner – out on UK digital download from Monday, January […]