Director – Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2021 – UK, Colombia, Thailand – Cert. 12 – 126m ****1/2 A British woman travelling around Bogotá, Colombia, is troubled by a strange banging sound and goes on a quest to investigate it – out in cinemas on Friday, January 14th This is a film to approach with caution: I […]
Director – Jeon Go-woon – 2017 – South Korea – 106m ****1/2 The price has gone up. Yet again! A woman who wants nothing more from life than to be able to enjoy whisky and smoking enacts a radical plan to combat everyday inflation – on MUBI from Thursday, November 25th as part of their New South […]
Director – Gio Arlotta – 2019 – Italy, Czech Republic – Cert. 12 – 98m – English Language ***1/2 Winsome if shallow documentary follows survivors from Zambia’s seventies music Zamrock phenomenon as they reform and tour Europe – in cinemas and on VoD from Friday, July 2nd On the verge of a pan-African trip that […]
Director – Dean Parisot – Writers – Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson – 2020 – US – Cert. PG – 91m **** Party on, dudes! The two friends return having failed over 25 years to write the song to unite all of humanity and prevent the universe unravelling – in cinemas from Wednesday, September 16th […]
Director – Yoshihiro Nakamura – 2009 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 112m ***** I review Fish Story for All The Anime. A comet threatens to destroy life on Earth. Three years earlier a religious cult attempts a ferry hijack. In the 1970s a punk band records and disbands before the Sex Pistols do. Welcome […]
Director – Darius Marder – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 120m ****1/2 A drummer must come to terms with a sudden loss of hearing which threatens everything he has worked to achieve – already out on Amazon Prime, in cinemas from Monday, May 17th This is a triptych about the onset of hearing […]
Punk biopic Poly Styrene: I Am A ClichéDirected by Celeste Bell and Paul SngCertificate 12a, 96 minutesReleased 5 March at www.modernfilms.comViewers can select a participating local cinema to share the revenue of the virtual box office This documentary about the late Poly Styrene (real name Marion Elliot), the iconic front woman of the 1970s punk […]