Review 98min Genre:       Comedy, Drama, Horror Director:     Marielle Heller Cast:         Amy Adams, Scoot McNairy, Emmett Snowden…and more Writers:     Marielle Heller and Rachel Yoder -Synopsis- In present day American suburbia, a stay-at-home mom struggles with the pressures of parenthood and its effect on her life and career, only to unexpectedly connect with a more primal instinct […]

Review 124min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama, Music Director:     Pablo Larraín Cast:         Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher…and more Writers:     Steven Knight -Synopsis- During her final days in 1970s Paris, the great Maria Callas recounts her life whilst struggling with her health and a hallucinatory pill addiction, reflecting on her loves and losses and on an incredible […]

Review 120min Genre:       Drama, Thriller Director:     Edward Berger Cast:         Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow…and more Writers:     Peter Straughan and Robert Harris -Synopsis- After the unexpected death of the Catholic church’s leader, a respected cardinal is charged with leading the Conclave in its secretive effort to select a new Pope only to be drawn […]

Review 122min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:     Ali Abbasi Cast:         Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova…and more Writers:     Gabriel Sherman -Synopsis- In the 1970s through the ’80s, a young Donald Trump’s star rises through New York real estate and beyond as his personality and life ethos is shaped by his close relationship with a questionable mentor—US […]

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 […]

Review 219min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance Director:   Sean Baker Cast:       Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelshtein, Karren Karagulian…and more Writers:   Sean Baker -Synopsis- A spirited young New York exotic dancer and working girl finds a seemingly fairytale way out of the sex industry when she beguiles and swiftly marries a wild and wealthy young Russian, only […]

Review 120min Genre:       Drama, Thriller, War Director:     Steve McQueen Cast:         Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Paul Weller…and more Writers:     Steve McQueen -Synopsis- In the midst of the Nazi bombings of the British capital, a young East End mother struggles to track down the son she sent to the country for safety, but who decided to return […]

Review 90min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Jesse Eisenberg Cast:         Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey…and more Writers:     Jesse Eisenberg -Synopsis- Two estranged and very different American cousins come together on a trip to Poland to honour their grandmother’s origins and re-connect with their Jewish roots, only to get on each other’s last nerve and […]