Directors – Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead – 2014 – US – Cert. 15 – 109m ***** UK release date 22/05/2015 The New Girlfriend (Une Nouvelle Amie) Director – François Ozon – 2014 – France – Cert. 15 – 108m ***** UK release date 22/05/2015 Both these films can easily be ruined by spoilers, so be […]
Not such a harmless prank AssassinsDirected by Ryan WhiteCertificate 12, 104 minutesReleased 29 January, online In 2017, Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia briefly became headline news when Kim Jong-nam, half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, was killed there. The story behind his assassination is truly unsettling, involving as it does two […]
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 […]
Director – Gabriel Range – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 109m **** In 1971, an unknown David Bowie tours America to promote his new album The Man Who Sold The World – on VoD from Friday, January 15th The late David Bowie remains one of the most significant and iconic musicians, artists or […]
Director – Terrence Malick – 2019 – US / Germany / Austria – Cert. 12a – 174m Standing against evil. A married Austrian farmer conscripted as a soldier for the German army in WW2 is imprisoned for refusing to sign the standard oath of allegiance to Hitler – in cinemas from Friday, January 17th Opening […]
Work in progress – subject to change. Top Ten (UK theatrical + online movie releases 2020) All films received either a theatrical or an online release in the UK between 01/01/20 and 31/12/20. I’ve never previously included online releases (well, maybe the odd one or two as a special case) but this year the film […]
Director – Rudolph Maté – 1951 – US – Cert. U – 79m *** UK PAL laserdisc review, 1997. Originally published on London Calling Internet. Made the year before European-born producer George Pal’s The War Of The Worlds (Byron Haskin, 1953), this science-fictional disaster outing stages the end of the world by a star and […]
Director – Sasie Sealy – 2019 – US – Cert. 15 – 87m ***1/2 An old woman in New York’s Chinatown happens upon a bag of mob money and hires a bodyguard from a rival gang to protect herself – on VoD including BFI Player from Monday, November 9th Grandma Wong (Tsai Chin) goes to […]
Director – Josephine Decker – 2020 – US – Cert. 15 – 107m **** Notorious author Shirley Jackson and her professor husband are seen through the eyes of a young couple invited to stay in their house – in cinemas and on Curzon Home Cinema from Friday, October 30th The real life Shirley Jackson was […]
Directors – Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger – 2020 – US – Cert. 12 – 123m ***1/2 Documentary looks at the Trump administration’s handling of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US – in cinemas from Friday, October 23rd and on iTunes, Amazon, Google, BFI Player, Curzon, Sky, Rakuten, Virgin. On […]