Terminator: Dark Fate is terminal boredom Arnie and no one else either can rescue us from the nightmare that is Terminator: Dark Fate Movies • 24 Oct 19
Non-Fiction: Binoche shines in Paris book-world movie Printed books versus e-books, love and infidelity behind the bookshelves, it's all rather topical in this charming, restrained comedy of manners featuring Juliette Binoche - … Movies • 11 Oct 19
Best Before Death and Bill Drummond's wacky world tour The KLF's Bill Drummond believes that shining shoes, baking cakes, fashioning wooden beds are all artistic endeavours, so much so that he is on a … Movies • 11 Oct 19
Losing Alaska: a telling document for our times Irish director Tom Burke's Losing Alaska is a telling document for our times, an absorbing account of how one Alaskan community of some 375 souls … Movies • 01 Oct 19
The Farewell: Dealing with a China family crisis Made to get the Oscars in its sights, with dialogue in English and Mandarin Chinese, The Farewell is a heart-warming tale about cultural dislocation which … Movie Reviews • 26 Sep 19
The Souvenir mines an elegiac 1980s London seam A young film student begins a relationship with a British Foreign Office man with rocky results in Joanna Hogg's absorbing film, which works in large … Movies • 28 Aug 19
Never Grow Old: John Cusack plays evil incarnate Black as pitch, Never Grow Old is a convincing thriller set in 1849 in an American settlement ruled over by a psychopathic thug, played with … Movie Review • 22 Aug 19
Pain and Glory shows Almodóvar at his finest Almodóvar's 21st feature, Pain and Glory (Dolor y Gloria) is rich with reflective passages and profound encounters, mediated through brilliant cinematography and enhanced by a … Movies • 27 Aug 19
The Art of Racing in the Rain - old-fashioned weepie This old-fashioned weepie spends perhaps too much time being morbid but then again what weepie doesn't? Ultimately, there is redemption of a kind mediated through … Movies • 08 Aug 19
Gaza: moving stories from the beleaguered strip of land The Egyptian and Israeli borders are closed, the fishing limit is a meager 3 km and young people in the prime of their lives cannot … Film Review • 08 Aug 19
Review: Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love Marianne Ihlen, a Norwegian woman, was a constant presence throughout the singer Leonard Cohen's life. Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love documents their relationship evenly … Film Review • 23 Jul 19
The Brink - a year in the life of Steve Bannon The Brink follows former White House strategist Steve Bannon through the 2018 US midterm elections, and the film also covers his attempts to mobilise far-right … Movie Review • 12 Jul 19
Never Look Away - art and love in a divided Germany Never Look Away (Werk ohne Autor) runs to over three hours and is a reasonably engaging human story but it is overly-long and flawed. The … Film Review • 08 Jul 19
Julianne Moore is in search of love in Gloria Bell Julianne Moore plays the eponymous Gloria, a fifty-something California grandmother, divorced and back in the dating game. Less taut and focused than the Spanish-language original, … Movie Review • 07 Jun 19
Sunset and the Austro-Hungarian Empire's anarchic end A young woman arrives at an ultra chic millinery emporium in Budapest claiming she is the daughter of the former owners before inveigling her way … Movies • 30 May 19
Too Late to Die Young: doomed innocence in 1990s Chile Nervy restlessness and the anticipation of doomed innocence shadows the brilliant Too Late to Die Young (Tarde Para Morir Joven) which is set in a … Movie Review • 22 May 19
Memoir of War: brilliant rendering of Duras novel Memoir of War, France's submission for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 Oscars is a brilliant rendering of novelist Marguerite Duras's Second World War … Movie Review • 23 May 19
Last Breath: serious diving danger in the North Sea Last Breath is a dramatic, sometimes moving film which tracks the lives of deep sea divers working on the seabed in the North Sea while … Film Review • 05 Apr 19
Early Man leaves no stone unturned in quest for fun A chest-beating comedy treat and, as Wallace & Gromit director Nick Park puts it, "a prehistoric underdog sports movie". Film Reviews • 25 Jan 18
Conor McGregor laid bare in a guts and glory saga Conor McGregor: Notorious is in cinemas now. It's a bruising, honest and funny look at the rise of one of the most divisive figures in … Conor Mcgregor • 03 Nov 17
It's Not Yet Dark: an inspiring, heartfelt masterpiece Simon Fitzmaurice relies on a home ventilator to keep him alive; a motorised wheelchair to help him keep up with his five young kids; and … It's Not Yet Dark • 16 Oct 17
Bullets fly, jokes fall flat in The Hitman's Bodyguard Not even the considerable charms of Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds can save this uninspired buddy action comedy. the hitman's bodyguard • 15 Aug 17
At last! Morrissey goes down in celluloid history A funny and tender biopic of the young Morrissey that captures a real sense of time and place Film • 03 Aug 17
Dunkirk is a cinematic experience like no other Christopher Nolan's relentlessly tense historical epic Dunkirk is a war movie like no other, a gripping, edge-of-your-seat thriller than doesn't give you a moment to … Dunkirk • 28 Jul 17
Cars 3 promises to bring your little ones on a joy ride Pixar's third chapter in the Cars franchise has just enough fuel to stay in the race. cars 3 • 14 Jul 17
