Director – Tamara Kotseva – 2025 – North Macedonia – Cert. 12a – 81m ***** A farmer, whose livelihood has collapsed thanks to economics and government policy, cares for a stork with a broken wing – in cinemas from Friday, December 12th This begins with a simple voiceover story. Silyan, ostracised from the other storks because […]
Director – Adam Wingard – 2024 – US – Cert. 12a – 115m ***** Godzilla must leave the surface world to team up with Kong in the subterranean Hollow Earth below to defeat a powerful enemy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, March 29th The latest movie in the Toho / Warner Bros. Godzilla […]
Directors – Jim Capobianco, Pierre-Luc Granjon – 2023 – US, France, Ireland – Cert. PG – 100m **** Towards the end of his life, inventor Leonardo da Vinci goes to live in France under the patronage of the King – stop frame / drawn animation composite is out in the UK’s Vue cinemas on Friday, […]
Director – Mark Jenkin – 2022 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** A lady environmentalist working on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast becomes subject to powerful, localised forces from the area’s past – out on UK Blu-ray/DVD combi and on BFI Player on Monday, May 8th NB The title is pronounced […]
Director – Wim Wenders – 1987 – Germany – Cert. PG – 128m ***** Angels move around Berlin, watching over Berliners, until one of them sees a beautiful girl and decides he wants to become human and experience emotion for himself – out in cinemas on Friday, June 24th and playing on Film 4 from […]
Director – Ottó Foky – 1976 – Hungary – 12m ***** A metal space bird approaches the bean planet to observe various aspects of life upon it before being discovered then shot at with a missile in this remarkable stop-frame short – out on MUBI as part of the animated shorts season Fables, Folklore, Futurism: […]