Director – John Woo –1992 – Hong Kong – Cert. 18 – 128m ***** One of the greatest action pictures ever made – 4K Restoration plays as part of Bullets and Brotherhood: the Films of John Woo at BFI Southbank from Friday, 3rd July to Friday, 31st July, and is also out on 4K UHD and Blu-ray Woo’s […]
R.I.P. Gene Hackman (1930-2025) Director – Francis Ford Coppola – 1974 – US – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** A surveillance expert records a conversation between two people, then worries about turning the recording over to his corporate client as contracted – 50th anniversary 4K Restoration is out on UHD, Blu-ray and DVD on Monday, […]
Director – Sylvain Chomet – 2003 – France – Cert. 12a – 80m***** Hailing from France, this animated fable is a heady concoction of nightclub singers, long distance cyclists, doting matriarchs and ruthless mobsters – out in UK cinemas from Friday, August 23rd, 2003 Like the animator’s earlier short The Old Lady And The Pigeons […]
Director – Wes Ball – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** The fourth entry in the current franchise reboot takes place several generations after the previous three films when apes live in scattered communities and humans have lost the power of speech – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, May 9th Noa […]
Director – Tim MacKenzie-Smith – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 90m **** How a promising, innovative black 1970s band failed to crack the UK music business, only for their music to take on a life of its own through various later, popular musical movements – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 16th […]
Director – Yuzura Tachikawa – 2023 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 120m ***** Three 18-year-olds form a jazz band with the aim of playing at Tokyo’s top jazz club – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, January 31st and Thursday, February 1st Before this property was a movie – an animated movie – it […]
Director – Toby Amies – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 86m ****1/2 Life behind the scenes members of the latest iteration of the band King Crimson, the revolving door institution helmed for half a century by musician Robert Fripp, as they rehearse and perform a tour – out in UK cinemas from Friday […]
Director – Joseph Losey – 1963 – UK – Cert. 12 – 115m ***** A highly capable working class manservant slowly takes control of his foppish, upper class master’s life – out in cinemas on Friday, September 10th Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) enters the curiously unlocked Chelsea house of Tony (James Fox) to interview for the […]
Directors – Xhosa Cole, Shiyi Li – 2021 – UK – cert. 15 tbc – 11m ***** Sax player Xhosa Cole recounts a #blacklivesmatter rally in Birmingham while Shiyi Li provides incredible animated images – from Sheffield DocFest 2021 There doesn’t seem to be a lot of animation at Sheffield DocFest – maybe there is […]
Colin Webster: baritone saxophone, Fender Twin Reverb and Bassman Amps. All tracks recorded live. No overdubs, effects or edits. Raw Tonk Records RT050 / 2021 LP + DL ***** Remarkable. With no overdubs or other studio trickery, Webster manages to make his sax sound variously like a weird electronic effect, a duck, a didgeridoo, a […]