Director – Lola Quivoron – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m *** Le Fast et la Furieuse. A young woman bike thief makes her mark on a group of bikers living in a bike repair shop run from a prison by its incarcerated owner – out in UK cinemas and exclusively on Curzon […]
Transcript of interview from 1994 with actress Julie Delpy on Three Colours: White. She plays the short but pivotal role of the main character’s ex-wife, whose appearances bookend the film. At the time, the third film in the trilogy had yet to be screened to press. She was based in LA., on which subject our […]
Director – Jean-François Richet – 2022 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A commercial passenger aircraft flying through bad weather conditions gets into trouble and is forced to land on an island run by military insurgents – out on digital from Monday, March 13th While this is unlikely to win any Oscars, […]
Director – Tom Waller – 2022 – Thailand – US Cert. PG-13 – 99m **** A Thai-based dramatisation of the 2018 Thailand boys’ football team cave rescue, with some of the rescuers playing themselves – on Blu-ray (US only) Tuesday, September 13th In 2018, the world held its breath when the 12 boys of a […]
Director – Ron Howard – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 147m **** A dramatisation of the 2018 Thailand boys’ football team cave rescue, with the rescuers played by name actors– out in cinemas on Friday, July 29th and globally on Amazon on Friday, August 5th In 2018, the world held its breath when […]
Director – David Leitch – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 126m *** A man boards a bullet train in Tokyo to steal a suitcase only to be prevented from leaving the train every time he tries to get off it – lightweight action thriller is out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, August 3rd […]
A Chinese Odyssey: Part One – Pandora’s Box (Sai Yau Gei: Yut Gwong Bou Haap, 西遊記第壹佰零壹回之月光寶盒) A Chinese Odyssey: Part Two – Cinderella (Sai Yau Gei: Sin Leui Kei Yun, 西遊記大結局之仙履奇緣) Director – Jeffrey Lau – 1995 – Hong Kong – 87 + 98m *** The Monkey King is banished to earth with loss of […]
Director – Chen Sicheng – 2021 – China – Cert. 15 – 136m **** The Chinese franchise’s super-sleuth and bumbling sidekick join forces with their Japanese and Thai counterparts in Japan – out in cinemas on Tuesday, January 25th and 26th only No sooner have the brilliant crime-solving sleuth Qin Feng (Liu Haoran) and his […]
Director – Herman Yau – 2017 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 118m **** A bomb disposal expert must prevent a bomber from destroying the Cross Harbour Hong Kong Tunnel and taking numerous innocent lives in the process – now available to rent online in the new Chinese Cinema Season 2021 in the UK […]
Director – Tsui Hark – 1983 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12 – 98m ***** One of the greatest special effects action movies ever made, this groundbreaking epic delivers non-stop, near unbelievable, visually entrancing vistas of Chinese mythology – online in the UK as part of Focus Hong Kong 2021 from Tuesday, February 9th to […]