Director – Danny Boyle – 2010 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m UK release date 07/01/2011, cert. 15, 93 mins The trailer for this gives a pretty good impression of about its first third. Experienced, youthful and single outdoor explorer Aron Ralston (James Franco) mountain bikes through the Utah landscape, meets a couple of […]
Director – Jean-Paul Salomé – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 121m ***1/2 After a smart and tough-talking woman union rep in the nuclear power industry is attacked, tied up and raped in her own home, the police suggest she may have staged the attack herself – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June […]
Director – Tomu Uchida – 1965 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 183m ***** Voted third in Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 list of the greatest Japanese film of all time, Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive From The Past (1965) is the pinnacle of a directorial career that also includes Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji (1955) and […]
Director – Mia Hansen-Løve – 2021 – France, Belgium, Germany – Cert. 15 – 112m First half ***** Second half ** A working, filmmaking couple spend time on the island where celebrated director Ingmar Berman lived, now a niche tourist attraction based around his life and movies – out exclusively on MUBI from Friday, July […]
Director – Kirill Serebrennikov – 2021 – Russia – Cert. 18 – 145m ***** The stream of consciousness existence of an urban, Russian comic book artist who has the ‘flu – out on VoD on Tuesday, June 28th Despite being under the weather with the ‘flu, city dweller Petrov (Semyon Serzin) is trying his best […]
Director – Sean Penn – 2021 – US – Cert. 15 – 109m **** A woman struggles to come to terms with her father who is a criminal and a pathological liar – out in cinemas on Friday, January 28th This at once follows a linear narrative trajectory and doesn’t. On the one level, Jennifer […]
Director – Kim Ki-young – 1977 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 110m ***** An acquitted murder suspect visits the island birthplace of his alleged victim to learn about the latter’s life and the strange, ritualistic, matriarchal society that still exists there – from the London Korean Film Festival 2019 Environmental journalist Chun Nam-seok […]