Director – Chris Andrews – 2024 – Ireland – Cert. 15 – 105m ** A feud between two neighbouring, Irish sheep farmers is made worse by toxic masculinity on both sides– out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, February 7th Two women in a car are being driven down an isolated country road. The […]
Director – Lawrence Kwan Chun Kan – 2023 – Hong Kong – Cert. 15 – 106m ***1/2 A woman uncovers a catalogue of abuse visited upon the residents of the Hong Kong care home in which her grandfather lives – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 19th This opens and closes to the strains […]
Director – Kotaro Wajima – 2021 – Japan – 77m ***** New next door neighbours pose challenges for a man with learning difficulties and his carer mother – plays UK cinemas in the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2022 between Friday, 4th February and Thursday, 31st March Chu-san (Muga Tsukaji) gets up with his alarm, […]
Directors – Jung Jae-ik, Seo Tae-soo – 2021 – South Korea – 97m **** Recovering from an accident that’s left him disabled, an honest but naive man falls prey to both social welfare bureaucracy and scam artists – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November 4th to Friday, […]
Director – Phyllida Lloyd – 2020 – UK/Ireland – Cert. 15 – 97m **** A woman leaves her abusive and violent husband and builds a new home for herself and her two young daughters – in UK cinemas from Friday, September 10th Things come to a head in the marriage of Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson) […]
A house of her own HerselfDirected by Phyllida LloydCertificate 15, 97 minutesReleased 10 September Herself has a brutal opening in which Sandra (Clare Dunne), a mother of two girls in Dublin, is physically assaulted by her husband Gary (Ian Lloyd Anderson), an incident witnessed by her youngest daughter, Molly (Molly McCann), while her eldest, Emma […]