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 […]

Cannes Film Festival 2025

May in Europe this year once again focused the world’s attention on the French Riviera and brought international media to effectively kick off the 2025/2026 movie season, start the award show express headed to next year’s Oscars, and turbocharge the year’s film festival season at world’s biggest and most prestigious film festival, gathering great & good of global cinema to […]

Academy Awards 2025

The 2025 award season railway made its final and most important stop this year once again as a 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, as they gathered in she shadow of the fires which devastated the state and […]

BFI London Film Festival 2024

After another turbulent and disruptive year in 2023 for a film industry in constant flux, cinema returned with a vengeance in 2024, once again taking over an autumnal “Big Smoke” and UK cinemas beyond, courtesy of the the British Film Institute (BFI), as the 68th edition of one of the world’s most accessible major film festivals— the London Film Festival […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]