Director – Ed Perkins – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 109m ** The story of Princess Diana told entirely through archive footage – out in cinemas on Thursday, June 30th The strange thing about watching this documentary about the fairytale turned tragedy of Princess Diana, if you’re old enough to remember it unfolding […]
Director – Daniels (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 139m ***** Do you know kung fu? A launderette owner in trouble with the IRS is sucked into serial, parallel worlds to defeat the being who threatens to annihilate the multiverse – available on demand in the UK from […]
Directors – David Fairhead, Anthony Palmer – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 110m **** The story of World War Two’s iconic Lancaster bomber aircraft, the missions it flew and the airmen who served as its crews – out in cinemas on Friday, May 27th The constant drone-like sound, the view looking downwards moving […]
Director – Jonas Poher Rasmussen – 2021 – Denmark, France, Norway, Sweden – Cert. 15 – 83m **** In a series of interviews, a gay man now living in Denmark tries to explain his experience of fleeing Afghanistan – in cinemas from Friday, February 11th Like The Breadwinner (Nora Twomey, 2017) and The Swallows Of […]
On being a refugee FleeDirected by Jonas Poher RasmussenCertificate 15, 83 minutesReleased 11 February Review for Reform magazine, February 2022. There have been animated films about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan before, including The Breadwinner (reviewed in Reform, June 2018), but Flee is different. It covers not only the experience of fleeing your home […]
Director – Andrew Bujalski – 2018 – US – Cert. 15 – 93m ***** The general manager of the Double Whammies sports bar must contend with all human life in the course of a particularly trying day – now on BFI Player General manager Lisa (Regina Hall) unlocks the premises for another day’s work at […]
Director – Anna Sofie Hartmann – 2019 – Germany, Denmark – 82m **** On MUBI from Thursday, August 6th. As part of a series of films from the 2019 Locarno Film Festival. There is a beautiful, lengthy shot of a giraffe at the start. Beyond that, it’s hard to know why it’s called that. No […]