Director – Ben Wheatley – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** An abducted journalist finds himself involved in multi-dimensional travel – quasi-experimental and completely bonkers sci-fi drama embarks on a tour of UK cinemas, from the smallest to the largest, on Thursday, January 15th We are watching black and white footage. (The film […]
Director – Joachim Rønning – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 119m A CEO uses robots and vehicles from the digital world, which disintegrate after 29 minutes, to hunt down his corporate rival – out in UK cinemas on Friday, October 10th **** Third movie in Disney’s Tron franchise doesn’t presuppose much knowledge of the […]
(Live action remake of animated feature, so filed under animation, among other categories.) Director – Marc Webb – 2025 – US – Cert. PG – 119m ***1/2 Disney’s new Snow White redoes the first animated feature, with its eponymous heroine, wicked queen and dwarfs, as live action – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March […]
***** Exhibition shows at BFI Southbank from Monday, 12th August to Tuesday 1st October 2024 (free to visit, but booking essential – click here) accompanied by the Stop Motion animation season including all five LAIKA feature films and much, much more In the best part of two decades, US-based Laika Studios – named after the […]
Directors – Jeff Tudor, Steven de Beul, Ben Tesseur – 2021 – Netherlands, Germany, Belgium – Cert. U – 82m **** People in an idyllic town must thwart the nefarious plans of a mad scientist in this extraordinary amalgam of dance, live action performers and animation – out in cinemas in the UK on Friday, […]
Director – Jeff Fowler – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 122m **1/2 Sonic teams with Tails The Fox to battle the dastardly Dr. Robotnik and powerful, red nemesis Knuckles – out in cinemas on Friday, April 1st. With Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) trapped on a mushroom planet, Sonic The Hedgehog (voice: Ben Schwartz) […]
Director – Luke Sparke – 2020 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 128m * Australian alien invasion epic with lots of seasoned actors and heaps of special effects. What could possibly go wrong? – out in cinemas on Friday, July 9th A sequel to Australian alien invasion outing Occupation (2018) by the same director, this […]
Director – Stanley Kubrick – 1968 – UK – Cert. U – 149m ***** “Dave, do you mind if I ask you a personal question?” Fifty years after its original release, the SF movie considered by many the greatest ever made returns to UK cinemas in 70mm – exclusively at Picturehouse Central for two weeks […]