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 – J. Lee Thompson – 1959 – UK – Cert. 12 – 96m **** An essentially honest young woman living in her parents’ East End slum fails to stop her impetuous younger brother from becoming involved in the criminal underworld – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and […]
Director – Paul Verhoeven – 2021 – France – Cert. tbc – 131m ***** A 17th Century nun subject to religious visions embarks on a lesbian relationship with a novice – exclusively on MUBI from Friday, July 1st Christianity. The Church. Religion. Treat them the wrong way, and you can get into trouble. Horror The […]
Sins of the flesh BenedettaDirected by Paul VerhoevenCertificate 18, 131 minutesReleased 15 April The Dutch director Paul Verhoeven revels in controversy… His latest work, Benedetta, is… sexually explicit, but also tackles religion within a historical context. It clearly has plenty of potential to offend. Benedetta is based on the story of the 17th-century Italian nun […]
Director – Sonita Gale – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 98m **1/2 A documentary about the UK’s anti-immigrant Hostile Environment policy includes a brief history plus stories of both those it affected and a charity set up to help them – out in cinemas on Friday, January 21st, local screening details constantly being […]
Director – Justin Pemberton – 2019 – France, New Zealand – Cert. 12 – 103m ***** An adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s controversial economic treatise Capital In The 21st Century – in cinemas from Friday, September 25th The content of French economist Thomas Piketty’s eponymous book couldn’t be more relevant. Far from being dry economics, Piketty’s […]
