Directors – James Cameron, Billie Eilish – 2026 – US, UK – Cert. 12a – 114m ***** One night of the singer’s latest world tour is captured up close and personal using specially developed, 3D camera technology – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 8th Disclaimer. Yes, I listen to a great deal of music. No, I […]
Directors – Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard – 2025 – UK – Cert. 15 – 96m ***** Musician and cultural icon Marianne Faithfull is interviewed at length, and her life and artistic achievements examined from several angles – compelling documentary is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, March 20th Who is Marianne Faithfull? Given that, sadly, […]
Director – Chloé Zhao – 2025 – UK, US – Cert. 12a – 125m ***** An imagining of the story of William Shakespeare’s son Hamnet, whose name gave rise to the play Hamlet – Maggie O’Farrell’s adaptation of her own novel is out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 9th According to the opening title card, […]
Directed by Chloé ZhaoCertificate 12A125 minutesReleased 9 January Shakespeare’s romantic relationship, family life and the tragedy of bereavement resulted in his writing one of his bestknown plays, Hamlet. In Elizabethan England, we are told at the start of Hamnet, the two names were interchangeable. Adapted from Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, this film is well-served by the landscape-friendly sensibilities […]
Director – Dechen Roder – 2024 – Bhutan, Norway, Italy, France – 112m ***** A woman fired from her teacher’s job for appearing in an online sex video she claims is of someone else sets out to find her doppelgänger and clear her name – winner of Best Director in the Critics’ Picks Competition of […]
Director – Anand Tucker – 2023 – UK – Cert. 15 – 101m The first four fifths of The Critic ***** The final fifth of The Critic * In the 1930s, a London theatre critic, a flamboyant homosexual known for destroying careers with his acerbic prose, finds his job under threat from his newspaper’s new […]
Director – Murray Grigor – 1976 – UK – Cert. 12 – 77m ****1/2 The camera follows comedian Billy Connolly to Dublin and Belfast for the final dates of his 1975 tour – 2K restoration is out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 10th, and on BFI Blu-ray/DVD (Dual Format Edition) and digital from Monday, […]
Director – Reinaldo Marcus Green – 2023 – US – Cert. 12a – 104m ***1/2 From his childhood in poverty in Jamaica, Bob Marley rises to stardom and international fame as the bast known proponent of reggae music – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 16th All this movie has to do to succeed […]
Director – Tom George – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 98m ** A barely competent Inspector and a trainee WPC investigate a backstage murder at The Mousetrap in 1950s London’s theatreland – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 9th London West End, 1953. Following his involvement in a fight at a party […]
Director – Todd Stephens – 2021 – US – Cert. – 105m ***1/2 Tasked with creating an open casket hairdo for his deceased, former best client, a hairdresser worn down by care home institutionalism escapes to reinvent himself – out in cinemas on Friday, June 10th A glamourous star on a stage playing to an […]