Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m ***** From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th Whatever the strengths of this […]
Director – Wim Wenders – 1987 – Germany – Cert. PG – 128m ***** Angels move around Berlin, watching over Berliners, until one of them sees a beautiful girl and decides he wants to become human and experience emotion for himself – out in cinemas on Friday, June 24th and playing on Film 4 from […]
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 – Rob Roth – 2021 – US – 18m ***** Watch an incredible collision of cultures as new wave band Blondie tours Havana – from Sheffield DocFest 2021 Shot in several aspect ratios by multimedia artist and Blondie collaborator Roth (Doom Or Destiny music video, cert. 18, 2017; creative director on lead singer Debbie Harry’s […]
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 […]
Director – Dave Mclean – 2019 – UK – Cert. 15 – 91m **1/2 A local Dundee lad and his two mates get into the promotions end of the music industry and find themselves dealing with gangsters – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th Dundee lad Davie (Conor Berry) arouses the ire of a man […]