Director – Tim Harper – 2023 – US – Cert. PG – 87m ** An orangutan girl becomes a social media influencer to stop corporate exploitation of palm oil after her forest habitat is burned in a forest fire – out in UK cinemas on Friday, August 16th The fate of orangutans in countries such […]
Director – Koji Fukada – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12a – 123m ***** A tragedy involving a woman’s six-year-old child, abandoned by his birth father, wreaks havoc on her already strained relationship with the husband she has recently married – on BFI Player from Monday, November 6th following its release in UK cinemas […]
Language for the deaf Name Me LawandDirected by Edward LovelaceCertificate PG, 91 minutesReleased 7 July Lawand, a young Iraqi boy, has been written off. He is different, he apparently doesn’t want to communicate with others. No one in his home country can help him. And that’s that. Except, his parents don’t believe it. They are […]
Director – Sho Miyake – 2022 – Japan, France – Cert. 12 – 99m The first half hour **** The rest ***1/2 A completely deaf, young woman trains in the boxing ring at the local gym and turns professional, but when the gym’s closure is announced, she loses the focus needed to carry on – […]
Director – Edward Lovelace – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 91m **** 1/2 A family leave Iraq for the UK where their deaf son can receive education appropriate to his needs, only to find themselves falling foul of the UK’s anti-immigration policies – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, July 7th, […]
Transcript of interview from 1994 with actress Julie Delpy on Three Colours: White. She plays the short but pivotal role of the main character’s ex-wife, whose appearances bookend the film. At the time, the third film in the trilogy had yet to be screened to press. She was based in LA., on which subject our […]
Director – David Mackenzie – 2011 – UK – Cert. 15 – 92m ***** Love story set in a pandemic captures something of the emotions felt during the 2020 COVID-19 crisis, when this review was written (one of the first to appear on this then fledgeling site) – streaming on the Arrow Channel from Friday, […]
Director – Naoko Yamada – 2016 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 130m **** Groundbreaking and innovative Japanese drama about school children, bullying, remorse, isolation and self-loathing – plays in the Annecy Animation Festival 2022 which is taking place in a 100% on-site edition this year right now in the Special Programmes section (a Special […]
Director – John Krasinski – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m **** A family move out from their isolated farm on an Earth where alien predators hunt by sound – out on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-Ray & DVD from Monday, August 30th 2021 There are obvious differences between this film and its predecessor, […]
Director – John Krasinski – 2018 – UK – Cert. 15 – 90m ***** A family live on an isolated farm on an Earth where alien predators hunt by sound – out on DVD, Blu-ray and selected online services NB This is the original film, not A Quiet Place Part II currently in cinemas. The […]