Director – Jianjie Lin – 2024 – China – Cert. 15 – 99m **** A boy from a broken home starts spending more and more time with the family of a schoolmate, where the family isn’t quite as perfect as it initially appears… – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 21st A boy is […]
Director – Ryo Ushimaru – 2023 – Japan – 96m ***** A bizarre drama plays out among a group of people running a chicken farm – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2025 which runs from Friday, 7th February to Monday, 31st March Wheelchair-bound Satomi (Maya Kudamatsu) likes to hunt. So […]
Director – Clair Titley – 2023 – UK – Cert.12a – 90m ***** How a man’s incarceration in a room, broadcast on TV, became a media sensation in Japan– out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 29th Before The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), which would be released later the same year, a couple of […]
Director – Maïwenn – 2023 – France – Cert. 15 – 117m ***1/2 A commoner works her way into the King of France’s affections and becomes a member of the aristocracy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 19th Born of the illicit union between a monk and a cook, the latter (Marianne Basler) […]
Director – Tran Anh Hung – 2023 – France – Cert. 12a – 145m ***** A nineteenth century, French gastronome tries to persuade his live-in cook to become his wife – in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from Wednesday, February 14th 1885. Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is the live-in cook for celebrated gastronome Dodin Bouffant […]
Director – Alexander Payne – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 133m ***** A teenage pupil must remain at school in the care of his strict and widely despised Ancient History teacher over the 1970 Christmas holidays – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th A school movie with a difference: this takes […]
Director – Alice Winocour – 2022 – France – Cert. 15 – 105m **** A woman tries to recall her memories of a Paris terrorist attack – out in UK cinemas on Friday, Aug 4th Were it not for a singularly unconvincing sex scene (as in, why are these two characters having sex?) about ten […]
Director – Takeshi Maruyama – 2021 – Japan – 96m ***1/2 The intersecting lives of several young Tokyoites suggests they don’t know how to communicate with one another – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022 between Friday, 4th February and Thursday, 31st March A young woman hangs out in an […]