Director – John Huston – 1961 – UK – Cert. – 125m **** As the Old West fades, a woman tries to navigate the men who appear to be dying with it in the final film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable – back out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 5th; the season Marilyn […]
Director – Park Joon-ho – 2025 – South Korea – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** A gay man who has defected from North to South Korea must get to grips with Seoul’s gay scene and his own sexual and religious identity – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2025 which runs in cinemas from Wednesday, November 5th to Tuesday, November 18th […]
Directors – Tim Burton, Mike Johnson – 2005 – US – Cert. PG – 77m ***** When his arranged marriage preparations go badly wrong, a young man inadvertently marries a dead woman from the underworld – stop-frame animated marvel is out on 4K Ultra HD and Digital, and in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th It is a […]
Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1954 – UK – Cert. 12 – 88m ***1/2 A woman spends 12 months in prison after being convicted of fraud – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in August, 2024 Jean (Glynis Johns) is marched from her cell and up […]
Director – Justin Lerner – 2023 – Guatemala, US, Mexico – Cert. 15 – 125m ***** A young woman infiltrates a drugs gang in order to find out what happened to her elder sister, who never came back from a night out – out in UK cinemas on and on demand Friday, August 23rd This […]
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 […]
Director – July Jung – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 134m ***** A schoolgirl on an internship is appallingly exploited by her employers, and a police detective is called in to investigate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Here’s a film which presents a real problem for reviewers. Something […]
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 – Abdelhai Laraki – 2023 – Morocco – Cert. none – 114m **** An 11-year-old boy navigates the rooftops of a Moroccan city while insurgents plot the overthrow of French colonialists in private courtyards and sometimes confront the occupying police in the streets – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn […]