Directors – James Cameron, Billie Eilish – 2026 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ***** One night of the singer’s latest world tour is captured up close and personal using specially developed, 3D camera technology – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th Disclaimer. Yes, I listen to a great deal of music. No, I […]
Director – John Carney – 2006 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** Two musicians fall for each other on the streets of Dublin… – review originally published in Third Way magazine, October 2007 UK release date 19/10/2007 This brilliant film is a reviewer’s nightmare because a thumbnail synopsis on paper sounds incredibly bland […]
Director – Anton Corbijn – 2007 – UK – Cert. 15 – 122m ***** UK release date 05/10/2007 The story of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis: his disintegrating marriage, struggles with epilepsy and eventual suicide – review originally published in Third Way magazine, September 2007 For the uninitiated, post-punk Mancunian band Joy Division formed […]
Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2024 – UK – Cert. 12a – 73m **** A suitcase containing love letters, telexes and photographs found after her death, which inspired songs from singer Emilíana Torrini, becomes the key to a woman’s interior life – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 9th Every so often, […]
Director – Naoko Yamada – 2024 – Japan – Cert. PG – 101m ***** A Catholic schoolgirl with synaesthesia inadvertently forms a rock band who find themselves playing a gig at her school – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 31st God grant me the serenityto accept the things I cannot change;courage to change […]
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 – Mark Warmington – 2024 – UK – Cert. 12a – 100m **** The story of Cimarons, the first British reggae band, who were formed in 1967 – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, October 3rd As teenagers, they came from sun-soaked Jamaica to the UK to be confronted with a climate that was […]
Director – Guan Hu – 2023 – China – Cert. 12a – 106m ***1/2 An ex-con returns to his home town, which is infested with wild dogs, and befriends a stray – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, August 30th Looking down from the edge of a slope towards Gobi Desert scrubland. In […]
Director – Rich Peppiat – 2023 – Ireland, UK – Cert. 18 – 105m **** A fictionalised origin story about an Irish language rap band as a music teacher teams up with two younger men to turn their confrontational, anti-British poetry into Irish rap music – provocative sex-, drugs-, and violence-laced music biopic is out […]
Director – Yuzura Tachikawa – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 120m ***** Three 18-year-olds form a jazz band with the aim of playing at Tokyo’s top jazz club – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 31st and Thursday, February 1st Before this property was a movie – an animated movie – it […]