Categories
Features Live Action Movies

A Pale View of Hills
(Toi Yamanamino Hikari,
遠い山なみの光)

Director – Kei Ishikawa – 2025 – UK, Japan, Poland – Cert. 12a – 123m From the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro ***1/2 An aspiring journalist in 1982 England delves into her mother’s past life in 1952 Nagasaki and unearths dark family secrets – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 13th As will be seen from the above logline description, this essentially […]

Categories
Features Live Action Movies

Ghostbusters
Frozen Empire

Director – Gil Kenan – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m **** Back in New York, running the family Ghostbusters business out of the old fire station, the Spenglers must thwart an evil entity who possesses the power to freeze things – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 22nd This sequel to […]

Categories
Animation Features Movies

Roujin Z
(老人Z)

Director – Hiroyuki Kitakubo – 1991 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 80m ***1/2 Robot beds deal with the major Japanese social problem of caring for their burgeoning elderly populous – in cinemas Touted as manga artist / anime director Katsuhiro Otomo’s follow up to the phenomenally successful Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988), Roujin Z was […]

Categories
Features Live Action Movies

The Luzhin Defence

Director – Marleen Gorris – 2000 – UK – Cert. 12 – 109m **** An unscrupulous teacher tracks a grown-up, former child Chess prodigy to Italy and attempts to exploit him for further gain – in cinemas from Friday, September 8th 2000 Adapted from the novel by Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), this is ostensibly set for […]