KOTATSU FESTIVAL 2020 | PREVIEW
KOTATSU FESTIVAL 2020 | PREVIEW The wide and rich variety of Japanese animation is given an annual platform in Wales by the team behind Kotatsu. This year it’s online-only, …
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KOTATSU FESTIVAL 2020 | PREVIEW The wide and rich variety of Japanese animation is given an annual platform in Wales by the team behind Kotatsu. This year it’s online-only, …
CARDIFF ANIMATION FESTIVAL 2020 | PREVIEW When Coronavirus-induced lockdown forced Cardiff Animation Festival to cancel their physical event, scheduled for the start of April only two weeks after the …
HUBIE HALLOWEEN | FILM REVIEW Dir: Steve Brill (12A, 103 mins) Another substandard comedy from Adam Sandler for Netflix, cashing in on the Halloween season. After the shouty highs …
THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION | FILM REVIEW Dir: Radha Blank (15, 124 mins) Radha Blank is a playwright struggling with grief, compromised success and a worry about her future path …
SAINT MAUD | FILM REVIEW Dir: Rose Glass (15, 83 mins) Taut, claustrophobic and compelling, this debut feature from writer/director Rose Glass proves to be the best British horror …
MORFYDD CLARK | INTERVIEW On the up and up this year and with the movie Saint Maud – where she features in her first cinematic lead role – hitting …
IRIS PRIZE 2020 | PREVIEW October 2020, and a festival being moved online generates little surprise, this one very much included. A silver lining to this Covid cloud, however, …
CRAIG ROBERTS | INTERVIEW First appearing on British screens in Casualty and The Story Of Tracy Beaker, 2010 film Submarine exploded Craig Roberts onto the worldwide movie scene. Still …
ENOLA HOLMES | FILM REVIEW Dir: Harry Bradbeer (12, 123 mins) Bright and breezy franchise starter for Netflix that wears its winning feminism on its sleeve and gives Millie …
THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME | FILM REVIEW Dir: Antonio Campos (18, 138 mins) Donald Ray Pollock’s excellent, grim novel is transformed into a bleak film that misses out …
LES MISÉRABLES | FILM REVIEW Dir: Ladj Ly (15, 104 mins) No, not that one. There’s no music and revolutionary warbling involved here, just the setting where Victor Hugo …
ROCKS | FILM REVIEW Dir: Sarah Gavron (12A, 93 mins) An authentic glimpse into the life of teenagers, Rocks is a heartfelt study of one girl’s life after it …
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS | FILM REVIEW Dir: Charlie Kaufman (15, 134 mins) The brain behind the off-kilter eccentricities of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless …
GET DUKED! | FILM REVIEW Dir: Ninian Doff (15, 87 mins) Originally titled Boyz In The Wood, this comedy balances bromance, hallucinogens and class warfare with giddy fun and …
ATHLETE A | FILM REVIEW Dir: Bonni Cohen / John Shenk (18, 104 mins) The disturbing case of American elite gymnastics and a history of sexual abuse that was …
THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND | FILM REVIEW Dir: Judd Apatow (15, 137 mins) Judd Apatow teams with Saturday Night Live regular Pete Davidson in this overlong, sporadically funny …
BOYS STATE | FILM REVIEW Dir: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss (12A,109 mins) In Texas every year, a thousand 17-year-old boys gather to build a representative government over the space …
TENET | FILM REVIEW Dir: Christopher Nolan (12A, 151 mins) Returning to the cinema for the first time in over five months was indeed an emotional experience. A more …
PROJECT POWER Dir: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman (15 111 mins) Riffing on superhero films, shady corporations and finding your voice via rap, Project Power is a zippy, formulaic actioner that …
STREET FOOD CINEMA: DRIVE-IN | PREVIEW Splott Market, Cardiff Fri 7-Sun 16 Aug What we all need now is some uplifting nostalgia to see us through these dark times, …
ALICE Dir: Josephine Mackerras (15 104 mins) A wonderfully observed French drama about finding your way in the world, Alice is anchored by a superb central performance from Emilie Piponnier …
THE OLD GUARD Dir: Gina Prince-Blythewood (15 125 mins) Theron plays Andromache of Scythia, a woman who has spent centuries trying to save mankind and is the leader of The …
7500 Dir: Patrick Vollrath (15 93 mins) A tense, gripping film set in a cockpit of a passenger plane, this hijacking revolves around a superb sweaty Joseph Gordon-Levitt as he …
ARTHUR & MERLIN: KNIGHTS OF CAMELOT Shot entirely in Wales over 17 days – one-day filming in Caerphilly Castle, the rest around Dunraven Bay and Ogmore-by-Sea – Arthur & Merlin: …