Director – Paul Verhoeven – 1990 – US – Cert. 18 – 113m *** UK Release: July 27th 1990 Arnold Schwarznegger’s mind has been stolen – and he’s got to go to Mars to get it back! The seeming perpetrator of this heinous crime is Recall Incorporated, a travel company with a difference: they implant […]
Director – Harry O. Hoyt – 1925 – US – Cert. U – 110m ***** Review of PAL VHS release originally published in Starlog UK, mid-1990s. £12.99, Original Aspect Ratio (Academy), Mono (Golden Age Films) Before Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg purloined the name for their Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World was Sir Arthur Conan […]
Director – Andrew Levitas – 2020 – US – Cert. 15 – 114m **** A dramatisation of celebrated photographer W. Eugene Smith’s investigation of Japan’s Minamata environmental atrocity in 1971 – out in cinemas and on digital from Friday, August 13th This feels like a Hollywood actor-led project with laudable aims which comes unstuck somewhere […]
Director – Irving Rapper – 1942 – US – Cert. PG – 117m ***** A woman must overcome mental illness caused by her overbearing mother – out in cinemas on Friday, August 6th The wealthy Vale family from Boston invites Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) to meet their youngest daughter Charlotte (Bette Davis) to see if […]
Director – Cate Shortland – 2021 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 133m **** Marvel’s latest is less about mysterious former spy Black Widow than the relationship between her and her younger sister – out in cinemas on Wednesday, July 7th The nuclear family of a father, mother and two young daughters growing up […]
Director – Jerry Rothwell – 2020 – UK – Cert. 12a – 82m ***** The inner world of the autistic, explored through the writings and lives of autistic people and innovative cinematography and sound design – in cinemas from Friday, June 18th (Autistic Pride Day) Originally this was a remarkable book in which autistic teenager […]
Director – Alex Kronemer – 2021 – US, Canada – 88m ****1/2 A young Syrian girl becomes a refugee at the same time as she explores the writings of 13th century poet Rumi in her dreams – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Official Competition section Lamya (Millie Davis) is a young girl […]
Director – Rob Roth – 2021 – US – 18m ***** Watch an incredible collision of cultures as new wave band Blondie tours Havana – from Sheffield DocFest 2021 Shot in several aspect ratios by multimedia artist and Blondie collaborator Roth (Doom Or Destiny music video, cert. 18, 2017; creative director on lead singer Debbie Harry’s […]
Director – Robert Machoain – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 84m ****1/2 A family man separated from his wife who has agreed they can each see other people is consumed with hate for the other man she is now seeing – in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, June 4th Morning. […]
Director – Darius Marder – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 120m ****1/2 A drummer must come to terms with a sudden loss of hearing which threatens everything he has worked to achieve – already out on Amazon Prime, in cinemas from Monday, May 17th This is a triptych about the onset of hearing […]