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 – Lee Jong-Pil – 2024 – South Korea – LEAFF Cert. 18 – 94m ***** An army sergeant is caught attempting to escape from North to South Korea, but then a second chance presents itself – played as the Opening Gala at the 2024 London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF) which runs from Wednesday, […]
Director – Nikhil Nagesh Bhat – 2023 – India – Cert. 18 – 105m ***1/2 Trying to prevent the love of his life from becoming trapped in an arranged marriage, a commando finds himself on a train fighting a violent gang of bandits – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 5th Commando Amrit (Lakshya […]
Director – Jean-François Richet – 2022 – UK, US – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A commercial passenger aircraft flying through bad weather conditions gets into trouble and is forced to land on an island run by military insurgents – out on digital from Monday, March 13th While this is unlikely to win any Oscars, […]
Director – Ridley Scott – 2012 – US – Cert.15 – 124m ***** UK release date 02/06/2012. Western social attitudes to women have come a long way since Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) gratuitously stripped down to her underwear prior to fending off the malevolent creature in the finale of Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi shocker Alien (1979), […]