Director – A.B. Zax – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 86m ***** A small town US bookstore and its enthusiastic, bookworm owner are seen in good times and bad, bad being the global pandemic when it’s just getting by, profits plunge and the business is threatened with closure – out in UK cinemas […]
Director – Olivia Newman – 2022 – US – Cert. 15 – 125m ***1/2 A young woman who grew up alone in the North Carolina Marshlands is the prime suspect for a murder she may or may not have committed – out in cinemas on Friday, July 22nd The body of Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson) […]
Director – Kirill Serebrennikov – 2016 – Russia – Cert. 15 – 118m **** An obsession with the Bible drives a Russian secondary school student towards dark designs in a film with both religious and political ramifications – out in cinemas on Friday, March 3rd 2017 Late teenager Venya (Pyotr Skvortsov) needs something to believe […]
Director – Alex Kronemer – 2021 – US, Canada – 88m ****1/2 A young Syrian girl becomes a refugee at the same time as she explores the writings of 13th century poet Rumi in her dreams – from the Annecy 2021 Animation Festival in the Official Competition section Lamya (Millie Davis) is a young girl […]