Director – Madeleine Gavin – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 115m ***** North Koreans flee their repressive country over the Chinese border and through several communist countries, where repatriation would mean imprisonment, torture and possibly death – heartstopping documentary is out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 27th Whether you’re coming to the […]
Director – A.B. Zax – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 86m ***** A small town US bookstore and its enthusiastic, bookworm owner are seen in good times and bad, bad being the global pandemic when it’s just getting by, profits plunge and the business is threatened with closure – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Wes Anderson – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m *** A stage play frames a tale of various characters in a 1950s US desert town, built on the site of an asteroid impact, which becomes the centre of a cover-up after an alien appears – out in UK cinemas on Friday, […]
Director – Mira Erdevički – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 88m **1/2 Three Roma people who have settled in the UK after leaving the Czech and Slovak Republics must navigate life both after Brexit and during the pandemic lockdown – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 28th Something film does extremely well […]
Director – Kim Hopkins – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 95m *** The Bradford Movie Makers amateur filmmaking club struggles to survive in the modern world – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 11th Founded in 1932, the Bradford Movie Makers is a club for lovers of movies to make their own […]
Directors – Jane Harris, Jimmy Edmonds – 2021 – UK – 60m **** People talk about their experiences of bereavement in the light of the COVID-19 lockdown – now free to watch (donation suggested) In March 2020, the unthinkable happened as the world entered a global pandemic. In the ensuing year or so many people […]
Director – Taichi Ishidate – 2020 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 139m ***1/2 Violet Evergarden struggles to come to terms with the loss of the man she loved in the war… then discovers that he may still be alive – in cinemas for six days from Thursday, July 1st Being a companion piece / […]
Directors – Hao Wu, Weixi Chen, Anonymous – 2020 – China, US – Cert. 12– 93m ***1/2 A US documentary edited out of footage shot on the Wuhan Covid-19 hospital frontline by two Chinese reporters allowed access – on VoD from Friday, January 22nd Documentary film making is a curious medium – one might even […]