Director – Seishiro Negaya – 2025 – Japan – Cert. tbc – 19m ***** Aliens love eating humans, and two humans avoid being eaten by disguising themselves as chickens – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th June It’s just another everyday schoolday for Yohei (voice: […]
Director – Michael Haneke – 2005 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 15 – 117m ***1/2 Covertly delivered VHS videotapes suggest to an upper middle class family that they are being watched, and begin to tease out guilt for an incident in the husband’s past – the closing film of Complicit: A Michael Haneke Retrospective, […]
Directors – David G. Derrick Jr., Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller – 2024 – US – Cert. PG – 100m *** 1/2 The desire to connect with the people who must surely live beyond the known horizons of her world drives Moana on a new seafaring adventure – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November […]
Director – Weston Razooli – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m **** Two siblings and their friend get caught up in a quest through the great hills and woods of Wyoming on their bikes to find a speckled egg so they can bake the boys’ sick mother a blueberry pie – out on […]
Director – David Lynch – 1977 – US – Cert. 15 – 89 mins ***** A look at where Eraserhead came from – and where its weirdness led. First published in 1996. The current vogue for Special Editions and Director’s Cuts prompts David Lynch to rerelease Eraserhead with a Dolby Stereo sound remix. The pre-existing […]
Director – Sam Fell – Co-Director – Jeff Newitt – 2023 – UK – Cert. PG – 101m **** Which came first – the chicken or the egg? Having escaped the farm for an island paradise, the chickens must break into and wreck a food processing factory masquerading as a holiday camp to lure unwitting […]
Directors – Sébastien Laudenbach, Chiara Malta – 2022 – France, Italy – 75m *** 1/2 A mother’s relationship with her young daughter lurches into farce as a domestic misunderstanding spirals out of control – from the Annecy International Animation Festival 2023 in the Official Competition section This starts off with a poem in French – […]
Director – Ben Sharrock – 2020 – UK – Cert. N/C 15+ – 103m ****1/2 Immigrants are holed up in a rundown house on a bleak Scottish island as they await letters granting their requests for asylum in the UK – on MUBI from Thursday, September 23rd A smiley chalked on a blackboard. A woman’s […]
Director – Victor Kossakovsky – 2020 – US, Norway – Cert. PG – 93m ***** Strangely compelling naturalistic, black and white documentary Gunda, follows the lives of a sow and her litter on a farm – in cinemas from Friday, June 4th and now available to rent on BFI Player and Curzon Home Cinema Break […]
Director – Aleem Khan – 2014 – UK – Cert. – 17m 11s **** A teenager must take care of his two brothers when their father vanishes – available as an extra on the After Love Blu-ray released on Monday, August 23rd It’s not entirely clear what’s happened to London teenager Hamid (Zain Muhammad Zafar) […]