Director – Wataru Takahashi – 2025 – Japan – Cert. PG tbc – 90m ***** An obsessive becomes fixated on a woman he sees in a park – sweet, romantic drama plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June Giuseppe (voice: Masaya Sano) becomes obsessed […]
Director – Gerard Johnson – 2025 – UK – Cert. 18 – 110m **** A ruthless London estate agent with mounting debts finds herself at the mercy of criminal backers – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 7th This starts off no holds barred with protagonist Natasha (Polly Maberly from Muscle, Gerard Johnson, 2019) having a […]
Director – Jonathan Entwhistle – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 94m ***** Latest franchise entry plays by all the rules that you would expect, yet somehow manages to completely break the mould and come up with something fresh and original – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 28th All a Karate Kid […]
Director – Bong Joon Ho – 2025 – US – Cert. 15 – 134m ***** Contracted to have his fleshly body reprinted, and his memory restored every time he dies, the expendable Mickey is assigned to a ship run by a right-wing power couple who plan to colonise a distant planet – science fiction adaptation […]
Director – Chris Andrews – 2024 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 105m ** A feud between two neighbouring, Irish sheep farmers is made worse by toxic masculinity on both sides– out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, February 7th Two women in a car are being driven down an isolated country road. The […]
Director – Adilkhan Yerzhanov – 2024 – Kazakhstan, France – 83m *** A mercenary known by the codename ‘Moor’ returns from the war to the big city to rescue his younger brother’s wife and son from her husband’s debts – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Found […]
Director – David Allen – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 75m ***** How Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell closed down their failing farm and instead let nature run wild to regenerate the land’s depleted biodiversity – inspiring documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady […]
Good Stewardship Wilding Directed by David Allen Certificate PG, 75 minutes Released 14 June After they inherited the Knepp farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years until the late 1990s, when they were one and a half […]
Director – Chang Hang-jun – 2022 – US, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 72m ***** Serial bad decisions in five reverse chronology episodes of a New Jersey, Korean migrant family’s life suggest terrible consequences – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2023 which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November 2nd to Thursday, November […]
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 […]