Cannes Film Festival 2026

Once again high spring in Europe brought the world’s attention to the French Riviera and international media along with it to truly kick off the 2026/2027 movie season and the award show express headed to next year’s Oscars, plus stoke the fires of this year’s festival season with world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival, gathering great & good of […]

Academy Awards 2026

2026’s award season railway made its final and definitive stop in a middle Sunday in March this year and as usual brought to Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre the great and the good of mainstream and global cinema, gathered for the industry’s biggest and most glitzy back-patting extravaganza at the 98th edition of the Academy Awards. American TV host and ex-talk show […]

The BAFTAs 2026

2026’s award season railway made its customary penultimate major stop in the UK capital on Sunday evening 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 third year in a row, congregating in […]

Golden Globe Awards 2026

After a recent history of HFPA controversy, boycotts and takeovers, and recent years of an industry in general perilous flux, 2026’s first big film & TV awards ceremony took place this Sunday as the 83rd edition of the Golden Globe Awards rolled into tinseltown. Despite another difficult year for the industry at the box office, in boardrooms, and on the […]

Sentimental Value (2025) (Norwegian & English Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 133min Genre: Drama Director: Joachim Trier Cast: Renate Reinsve, Stellan Skarsgård, Elle Fanning…and more Writers: Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt -Synopsis- A Norwegian actress’ attempt to repair a difficult relationship with her larger-than-life estranged director father becomes further convoluted when she turns down a part in what he hopes will be a comeback film, […]

Nouvelle Vague (2025) (French Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 106min Genre: Fact-based, Comedy, Drama Director: Richard Linklater Cast: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin…and more Writers: Holly Gent, Laetitia Masson, Vincent Palmo Jr. & Michèle Pétin -Synopsis- In Paris of the late 1950s, French film critic Jean-Luc Godard decides the best way to challenge the filmmaking conventions of the time is by making […]

Die My Love (2025)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 118min Genre: Drama, Thriller Director: Lynne Ramsay Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek…and more Writers: Lynne Ramsay, Enda Walsh, Ariana Harwicz and Alice Birch -Synopsis- In rural contemporary America, the seemingly idyllic life of a wife and new mom in the remote countryside begins to fall apart when her behaviour becomes increasingly erratic and her sanity […]

Bugonia (2025)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 120min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-fi Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Cast: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis…and more Writers: Will Tracy and Jang Joon-hwan -Synopsis- Tired of scraping a living whilst harbouring resentments and very personal bizarre conspiracy theories about the rich and powerful, a pair of lowly eccentric American cousins hatch a scheme to kidnap […]

Frankenstein (2025)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 149min Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Sci-fi Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth…and more Writers: Guillermo del Toro and Mary Shelley -Synopsis- A brilliant and ambitious but troubled and egotistical 18th century Swiss scientist goes too far in his obsession with playing God by creating life and beating death, destroying […]

BFI London Film Festival 2025

After another challenging year in 2024 for a film industry in flux, true cinema returned to the London and UK cinemas beyond, courtesy of the the British Film Institute (BFI), as the 69th edition of one of the world’s most accessible major film festivals— the London Film Festival (LFF)—gathered global cinema players in the British capital once again. In a […]

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 140min Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller Director: Rian Johnson Cast: Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close…and more Writers: Rian Johnson -Synopsis- A young priest’s new assignment to a small town upstate New York Catholic parish becomes complicated when he begins to clash with its domineering preacher, and turns into a nightmare when the fiery […]

The Secret Agent (2025) (Portuguese Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2025

Review 158min Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Cast: Wagner Moura, Robério Diógenes, Maria Fernanda Cândido… Writers: Kleber Mendonça Filho -Synopsis- In Brazil under military rule in the late 1970s a former scientific researcher turned agitator with a difficult recent past is on the run, returning to his home town in […]

12 Films to Watch in 2025 (July to December)

Following our ’12 Films To Watch’ lists for previous years, we return to break down 12 of what we think might be some must-see films released in the UK and worldwide during the second half of 2025—spreading the love out with two per month and only including films which have confirmed UK release dates. There will be plenty more must-see […]