12 Films to Watch in 2024 (July to December)

Following our ’12 Films To Watch’ for the first half of 2024, we return to break down 12 of what we think might be some must-see films released in the UK and worldwide during the rest of the year—spreading the love out with two per month and only including films which have confirmed UK release dates. There will be plenty […]

Cannes Film Festival 2024

Once again May in Europe focused the world’s attention on the French Riviera to truly kick off the 2024/2025 movie season, start the award show express headed towards next year’s Oscars, and turbocharge this year’s film festival season, as the world’s media and the great & good of global cinema gathered once again at world’s biggest and most prestigious film […]

The Book of Clarence (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 136min Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama Director: Jeymes Samuel Cast: LaKeith Stanfield, RJ Cyler, Omar Sy…and more Writers: Jeymes Samuel -Synopsis- In Jerusalem of 33 AD an aimless highfalutin hustler sees an opportunity in the rise of Jesus Christ where others see salvation, as he carves out a piece of the worship and adulation pie by shaping himself into […]

All of Us Strangers (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 105min Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Director: Andrew Haigh Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy…and more Writers: Andrew Haigh and Taichi Yamada -Synopsis- A lonely gay screenwriter begins to develop a bond with an enigmatic neighbour in London while some visits back to his childhood home spark an unexpected reunion with his long-deceased parents, as both bizarre developing relationships […]

Maestro (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 129min Genre: Fact-based, Drama, Music, Romance Director: Bradley Cooper Cast: Bradley Cooper, Carey Mulligan, Maya Hawke…and more Writers: Bradley Cooper and Josh Singer -Synopsis- The life of acclaimed larger-than-life American conductor-composer and cultural icon Leonard Bernstein is revisited through the prism of his complicated marriage to wife and fellow artist Felicia Montealegre, as the stresses of his professional rise […]

The Killer (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 118min Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Director: David Fincher Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell…and more Writers: Andrew Kevin Walker, Alexis Nolent, Luc Jacamon -Synopsis- A skilled and meticulous assassin who finally fails to stick to the plan is forced into hiding when an assignment goes wrong, only to be drawn into a globe-trotting manhunt and become a […]

Poor Things (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 221min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-fi Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Mark Ruffalo…and more Writers: Tony McNamara and Alasdair Gray -Synopsis- In a surrealist Victorian Britain, a tragically deceased young woman is re-born and given a second shot at life when she’s re-animated by an eccentric mad scientist, as her childlike blooming takes an impulsive […]

Saltburn (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 127min Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller Director: Emerald Fennell Cast: Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike…and more Writers: Emerald Fennell -Synopsis- A young outsider from humble origins studying at Oxford University becomes drawn into high society when he befriends a charming aristocratic fellow student, and is invited to spend a fateful summer at his eccentric family’s lavish rural estate and […]

BFI London Film Festival 2023

In the midst of yet another turbulent and disruptive year for the film industry, cinema once again took over “The Big Smoke” and UK cinemas beyond, courtesy of the the British Film Institute (BFI), as the 67th edition of the London Film Festival (LFF)—one of the world’s most accessible major film festivals—gathered global cinema players in the British capital once […]

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 206min Genre: Fact-based, Crime, Drama, Romance Director: Martin Scorsese Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Robert De Niro…and more Writers: Martin Scorsese, Eric Roth and David Grann -Synopsis- In 1920s Oklahoma a series of unexplained murders and exploitation of the oil-rich Osage Nation sparks an FBI investigation which uncovers a sobering conspiracy, triggering the breakdown of communities and forcing a […]

Monster (2023) (Japanese Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 126min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda Cast: Soya Kurokawa, Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama…and more Writers: Yûji Sakamoto -Synopsis- A young Japanese boy’s single mother takes matters into her own hands when his behaviour takes a turn towards the odd and disturbing and she suspects his school life to be the cause, as she confronts one of his teachers […]

Hit Man (2023)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Review 113min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Glen Powell, Adria Arjona, Austin Amelio…and more Writers: Richard Linklater, Glen Powell, Skip Hollandsworth -Synopsis- A mild-mannered straight-laced American professor who moonlights as a contractor for the cops unexpectedly ends up deep undercover as a fake hitman to catch those who order the killings, taking to it like a duck […]

Academy Awards 2023

The 2023 award season railway made its final stop this year once again as a mid-March affair, bringing with it the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza in Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, gathered to award the achievements in cinema over the last twelve months at the 95th edition of […]

The BAFTAs 2023

The award season railway made its penultimate major stop in the “Big Smoke” on Sunday for the biggest night in the British film calendar, as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) gathered the great and the good of global cinema and headed south of the river for the first time, congregating on the South Bank and in […]

12 Films to Watch in 2023 (January to June)

Following our ’12 Films To Watch’ lists for previous years and their absence over the fluid chaos of the pandemic era release slate, we return to break down 12 of what we think might be some must-see films released in the UK and worldwide during the first half of 2023—spreading the love out with two per month and only including […]