Director – Jim Jarmusch – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 110m ***** Three separate stories follow visits by three separate sets of adult siblings to, respectively, an elderly father, an elderly mother, and a deceased parents’ cleared home – streams exclusively on MUBI from Friday, May 29th This harks back to a couple of earlier Jarmusch movies which […]
Director – Philippa Lowthorpe – 2025 – US, UK – Cert.12a – 115m ***** An academic grieving her recently deceased photojournalist father buys and trains a goshawk then turns in on herself – adaptation of bestselling memoir is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 23rd Helen (Claire Foy) phones her dad to tell him she’s […]
Director – Jang Man-min – 2024 – South Korea – Cert. 12 – 121m ***1/2 A Seoul woman in need of funds to buy a condo returns to her childhood coastal town to get the alimony payments her estranged father never stumped up – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2025 which runs in cinemas from Wednesday, November 5th to […]
Director – Chiang Wei-liang – 2024 – Taiwan, Singapore, France – Cert. 15 – 128m ****1/2 An immigrant caregiver is caught between the demands of his exhausted, needy clients on the one hand and his profit-oriented gangster taskmasters on the other – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 23rd This gets straight in there […]
Directors – Albert & Herbart Leung – 2024 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 114m **** 20 years after a stuntman on his team was hospitalised when a stunt went wrong, an action choreographer takes on his first stunt job since the tragic incident – out on digital from Monday, 12 May 2025 This […]
Directors – Petr Kazda, Tomáš Weinreb – 2024 – Czechia, Slovakia, France – 105m***** The female gaze. An introvert woman finds love in an unlikely place where, it turns out, there are catches – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival A figure stands in interior darkness. Watching. […]
Director – J. Lee Thompson – 1954 – UK – Cert. 12 – 88m ***1/2 A woman spends 12 months in prison after being convicted of fraud – one of two J. Lee Thompson movies out on UK Blu-ray, DVD and Digital in August, 2024 Jean (Glynis Johns) is marched from her cell and up […]
Director – Ibrahim Nash’at – 2023 – US, Germany – Cert. 12a – 89m **** A Western documentary shot with the approval of the Taliban showing the eponymous air base in which the Americans abandoned large stocks of military hardware – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 16th An extraordinary exercise in both journalism […]
Director – Tomu Uchida – 1965 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 183m ***** Voted third in Kinema Junpo magazine’s 1999 list of the greatest Japanese film of all time, Tomu Uchida’s A Fugitive From The Past (1965) is the pinnacle of a directorial career that also includes Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji (1955) and […]
Director – Lee Haven Jones – 2021 – UK (Wales) – Cert. 18 – 93m ** The well-heeled wife of a local MP hires a maid to serve a meal for guests, but then things go horribly wrong – shot in the Welsh language and out in cinemas on Friday, August 19th It’s unusual to […]