★★★★ - EMPIRE
- An unhappy couple invite their sexually-enthusiastic upstairs neighbours down for dinner. With the wine and weed flowing, so too do the home truths -
“The power of love… a force from above… cleaning my soul.” So sang Frankie Goes To Hollywood. A beautiful sentiment it is too. Such…
★★★★½ - THE POST
- Debut feature tells a tough story superbly well -
Back in 2015, 24 year old film-maker Daisy-May Hudson completed a self-funded and crowd-sourced documentary called Half Way. Half Way documented the journey of Daisy-May, her mother and her younger sister, after their rental home…
★★★★ - THE POST
- Huppert is superb in this scandalous French drama -
“We don’t follow trends, we set them.”
Fiercely proud of her family’s cosmetic empire, Marianne Farrère (Isabelle Huppert) does not suffer fools gladly and sniffily dismisses any suggestion that the Windler Group isn’t still…
★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN
- Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is surprisingly even-handed -
Daisy-May Hudson is the British film-maker who in 2015 made a fiercely personal documentary about homelessness: her own. Half Way told…
★★★★ - THE POST
- Irish jury-room drama asks some tough questions -
Late one night in December 1996 a woman was murdered near her holiday home, near the town of Toormare in County Cork, on the south western coast of Ireland.
Sophie Toscan du Plantier was 39 years old. She lived mostly in her…
★★★★ - EMPIRE
- The old toys face a new, high-tech competitor: a tablet called Lilypad (Greta Lee), that threatens to displace them. Jessie (Joan Cusack) leads the fight against this unwelcome tech incursion. -
Pixar’s Toy Story series has always been at home with wistfulness and melancholy,…
★★★★ - TIME OUT
- Hugh Jackman is terrific in a dark but powerful new take on the old outlaw -
You might feel your done with Robin Hood – takes from the rich, gives to the poor, yadda yadda yadda – but Michael Sarnoski’s film finds new textures and humanity in the stock figure. The ‘death’ of the…
★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN
- Humans have been secretly abusing aliens for almost 80 years in this big-hearted thriller starring Josh O’Connor as a worried whistleblower and a never-more-magnetic Emily Blunt as a weather forecaster channelling UFO chat -
The old school is the new school in this very…
★★★★ - EMPIRE
- Following an all-night jam session, wedding singer Rick Power (Paul Rudd) accuses struggling boy-band star Danny Wilson (Nick Jonas) of stealing his song -
Every filmmaker worth their salt has their recurring obsessions, whether it’s the confines of privilege (Sofia Coppola),…
★★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN
- Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are the double act of the year -
Steven Soderbergh has a certain superpower, not always bestowed on even the most important directors: a capacity to surprise. This is a restlessly productive film-maker, travelling light creatively, developing…
★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN
- Playing a piano tuner with super sensitive hearing, Woodall’s relationship with Hoffman is a tender highlight in this unforced crime drama -
Leo Woodall’s breakout TV roles in The White Lotus and One Day offered a megawatt charisma, but for his biggest film role to date he…
★★★★ - CATERPILLAR
- Caterpillar is one of the strongest local debuts in years. -
The year must be 2002 or 2003. Cassie is a 16-year-old student at her local high school who looks to be doing OK, from the outside at least. She has a couple of good friends, she has already worked out she loves…
