Director – Jérémie Périn – 2023 – France – Cert. 15 – 85m ***** In the 23rd Century, a private investigator and her resurrected robot assistant go to Mars to investigate the murder of a cybernetics student – plays in the Annecy International Animation Festival 2026 which runs from Sunday, 21st June to Saturday 27th […]
Director – Ian Tuason – 2025 – Canada – Cert. 15 – 94m ** The co-host of a paranormal podcast is disturbed by ten mysterious sound files even as her elderly mother is nearing death in her bedroom upstairs – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 10th A two person paranormal podcast comprises Evy […]
Director – Christopher McQuarrie – 2025 – US – Cert. 12a – 163m ***** Tom Cruise’s eighth and director Christopher McQuarrie’s fourth Mission: Impossible outing delivers up to par globe-trotting action set pieces and considerably more plot than last time – out in UK cinemas on Wednesday, May 21st When Tom Cruise made his first […]
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 – July Jung – 2022 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 134m ***** A schoolgirl on an internship is appallingly exploited by her employers, and a police detective is called in to investigate – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 14th Here’s a film which presents a real problem for reviewers. Something […]
Director – Norris Wong – 2023 – Hong Kong – Cert. 12a – 112m **** A girl pursues her dream of becoming a Cantopop lyricist – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 15th The movies are full of rags-to-riches stories in which someone dreams of becoming a star, works hard to achieve that, and […]
Director – Shen Ao – 2022 – China – Cert. 15 – 129m *** A rising star computer programmer and a dropped model are lured into working as forced labour for a fraudulent, foreign online gambling operation – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 8th Zhao Dongran (Yong Mei), the knowledgeable head of a […]
Director – Anita Rocha de Silveira – 2021 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 127m *** Pro-purity, fundamentalist, Christian church girl band singer indoors by day; slut-shaming, Evangelical, vigilante group member outdoors by night… a woman is haunted by a facially disfigured figure from the past – out in UK cinemas also available on PVOD […]
Director – Kiyoshi Kurosawa – 2001 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 119m ***** Plays in the BFI Japan 2021 season October / November at BFI Southbank. Also, currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the BFI Japan 2021 programme Pulse aka Kairo (2001) has long been considered one of the key J-Horror films […]
Director – Magnus von Horn – 2020 – Poland, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 106m **** An Instagram fitness celebrity struggles with the tension between constant self-promotion and everyday existence – on MUBI from Friday, September 17th This opens with Sylwia Zajac (Magdalena Kolesnik) leading a demanding workout with a crowd of dozens of her […]