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Ada
My Mother the Architect

Director – Yael Melamede – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 81m ***1/2 A portrait by her New York-based daughter of top Israeli architect Ada Karmi Melamede – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 1st This opens with the filmmaker daughter asking her architect mother if she wants to speak English or Hebrew. The mother […]

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The Testament
of Ann Lee

Directed by Mona FastvoldCertificate 15130 minutesReleased 27 February and on Disney+ from 13 May Few films accurately chronicle a specific, historical Christian sect, fewer still do so as a musical. I knew virtually nothing about the Shakers, before seeing The Testament of Ann Lee, which is based on a true story. | found much to admire […]

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Michelangelo
Love and Death

Director – David Bickerstaff – 2017 – UK – Cert. U – 91m ***** Sixteenth Century Renaissance sculptor Michelangelo remains one of the greatest artists of all time, yet his overreaching ambition frequently proved his undoing – back out in UK cinemas to tie in with the 550th anniversary of Michelangelo’s birth from Tuesday, May […]

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September 5

Director – Tim Fehlbaum – 2024 – US, Germany – Cert. 15 – 95m ****1/2 A dramatisation of the events of September 5, 1972 when broadcast TV sports journalists found themselves covering the terrorist kidnapping of Israeli athletes in the Olympic village – out in UK cinemas on Thursday, February 6th There have been movies […]

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The Old Man
and the Land

Director – Nicholas Parish – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 100m ***** As he works on the land, an aging farmer hears his two adult children argue about the future of the family farm – plays UK cinemas from Friday, September 20th 2024, with previews from Monday, September 16th following its premiere in […]

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Firebrand

Director – Karim Ainouz – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 121m ***** Henry VIII’s sixth wife Katherine Parr must navigate the increasingly treacherous waters between her desire for religious tolerance and Henry’s more authoritarian take on Christianity – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 6th With her husband Henry VIII away fighting […]

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Firebrand

Directed by Karim AinouzCertificate 15121 minutesReleased 6 September Reviewed for Reform magazine. History. The Tudors. King Henry VIII wanted a male heir to the throne. His first wife failed to deliver, so he divorced her. When the Pope excommunicated him, Henry set up the new, Protestant, Church of England. He kept marrying new wives who […]

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Return to Seoul
(Retour à Séoul)

Director – Davy Chou – 2022 – France, Belgium, Germany, South Korea – Cert. 15 – 118m ****1/2 A woman born in South Korea and fostered by parents in France unexpectedly returns to the land of her birth – on MUBI from Friday, July 7th Although it looks at first glance like a South Korean […]

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Reality

Director – Tina Satter – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 83m ***** A young woman working in US security services is questioned in her home by two FBI interrogators who believe she’s leaked classified documents to The Intercept – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, June 2nd This film is based […]

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Reality

Interrogating the text RealityDirected by Tina SatterCertificate 12a, 83 minutesReleased 2 June A film named after not, as you might imagine, a state of truth, but a young woman, the main protagonist Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney). She works in a US security facility, translating documents from Farsi to English. The room in which she works […]