Film Archives

HER WAY: mother-son drama empathetically explores sex work stigma

August 15, 2022

Her Way, the debut feature from director Cecile Ducrocq, is an absorbing drama with a brilliant central performance from Laure Calamy.

Category: Culture, Film, Reviews

GWLEDD (THE FEAST): Welsh-language horror cements a film talent to watch

August 15, 2022

Even in the height of summer, director Lee Haven Jones’ Gwledd (The Feast) is sending chills down Keiron Self’s spine. Allow him to tell you why!

Category: Culture, Film, Reviews

EIFFEL trades historical facts for romantic fiction in so-so story behind the French monument

August 11, 2022

Solid and always watchable, Eiffel never quite reaches the Tower’s actual dramatic heights, and has a Sunday afternoon movie feel.

Category: Culture, Film, Reviews, Uncategorized

WHAT JOSIAH SAW: Robert Patrick is the world’s worst dad in tense American gothic

August 2, 2022

An American Gothic tale that mostly delivers, What Josiah Saw feels almost primaeval at times, and despite its flaws, haunts.

Category: Film, Reviews

Iranian film HIT THE ROAD is a masterfully moving road trip

August 1, 2022

A beautifully observed road trip movie with heartbreak at its centre, Hit The Road – the debut feature of director Panah Panahi – resonates deeply.

Category: Film, Reviews

THE FEAST: Welsh-language folk horror film serves chilling food for thought

August 1, 2022

Churning both the stomach and mind, The Feast is a lyrical and poetic Welsh film about history and responsibility, greed and the rape of the land.

Category: Film, Reviews Region: Wales-Wide

Porthcawl’s Jamie Adams teams with Alia Shawkat for fictional band biopic, LOVE SPREADS

August 1, 2022

Prolific Welsh filmmaker Jamie Adams has another music-based dramedy, Love Spreads, available to download now.

Category: Film, Reviews Region: South Wales

Actor Matt Hookings on stepping into the ring for boxing film PRIZEFIGHTER – to play his own dad

July 28, 2022

When Carl Marsh sat down with Matt Hookings to talk about his new boxing biopic Prizefighter – co-starring Russell Crowe and Ray Winstone – he thought he was seeing double.

Category: Interviews, Film Region: South Wales

From BULLET TRAIN to THE INVITATION – August 2022 film highlights

July 28, 2022

August is not the prime month for sitting in a windowless room inside an entertainment complex for two to four hours of film. Which makes it all the more impressive that Keiron Self has found some timely content!

Category: Film, Previews

The belly of the beast: inside Dragon Studios, the Welsh film hub hosting Disney, Universal and more

July 19, 2022

Hannah Collins catches up with one of the country’s biggest studios - Dragon, recent hosts to Disney+'s Willow - and finds that post-COVID, operations director Tom Guy has never been busier.

Category: Interviews, Film Region: South Wales

Over 100 innovative media projects collide for Cardiff’s CLWSTWRVERSE programme

July 18, 2022

Mon 4 July saw Cardiff City Hall host the ClwstwrVerse programme, highlighting and celebrating media innovations made in Wales.

Category: Film, Features Region: South Wales

Valleywood: how Wales finally got its TV & film industry

July 14, 2022

The first wave of COVID ground virtually every UK industry to a halt, film and TV included. Despite this, two years on the sector in Wales has currently never been busier. How did this happen?

Category: Film, Features Region: Wales-Wide

Celyn Jones: the “chancer from Holyhead” heading Wales’ film boom – and bringing Rebel Wilson to Wrexham

July 11, 2022

Dedicated to creating quality homegrown film that works as pure entertainment, Celyn Jones discusses his ambitions with Buzz’s John Evans - including his upcoming Rebel Wilson-starring project, The Amond And The Seahorse.

Category: Interviews, Film Region: Wales-Wide

‘Don’t mourn, organise’: MANIFESTO – a blistering portrait of turbulent Corbyn years

July 8, 2022

Daniel Draper's Manifesto is a blistering political call to arms that hits ever harder in the current corrupt climate, where a crisis in the Tory government is a daily/hourly occurrence.

Category: Film, Reviews

July 2022 film highlights: from THOR 4 to WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 2, 2022

July's film releases include an Irish drama about an impromptu baby adaption and a cartoon about Superman's dog.

Category: Film, Previews

Art film WAYFINDER takes a hypnotic tour through Britain using a Black cultural lens

July 1, 2022

British-Ghanian artist Larry Achimapong provides a sensory snapshot experience of Black culture and history, riddled with images of solitude and loneliness.

Category: Film, Reviews

NITRAM: Caleb Landry Jones shines in grim but gripping Port Arthur drama

June 27, 2022

The terrible mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania in 1996 created swift change in gun laws. Justin Kurzel’s immersive film Nitram details the life of the man behind that attack.

Category: Film, Reviews

Greek drama MOON, 66 QUESTIONS delicately explores illness, family & care

June 20, 2022

An immersive Greek drama from writer/director Jacqueline Lentzou, Moon, 66 Questions immerses rather than explains as a daughter reconnects with her ill father.

Category: Culture, Film, Reviews

EVERYTHING WENT FINE: French euthanasia film delivers heartwrending drama

June 16, 2022

Everything Went Fine is a euthanasia drama that absorbs and moves, anchored by an excellent Sophie Marceau as a daughter coming to terms with her father’s desire to die.

Category: Film, Reviews

30 years in the making, stop-motion epic MAD GOD is like nothing you’ve seen before

June 14, 2022

Filled with gruesome horror, lovingly and painstakingly realized, you haven’t seen anything like Mad God and may not want to again.

Category: Film, Reviews

Queer elder life takes centre stage in the eccentrically likeable SWAN SONG

June 13, 2022

There’s a lack of real incident and some clumsy exposition in Swan Song but Udo Kier proves a likeable guide through his picaresque history, campily raging into the dying of the light.

Category: Film, Reviews

MEN: Alex Garland’s sensational horror fable will leave you craving more

June 7, 2022

English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director Alex Garland has produced a masterclass with Men, a sensational new psychological horror movie.

Category: Film, Reviews

I AM ZLATAN: an impressively unsentimental biopic of a sporting maverick

June 6, 2022

An incredibly watchable football film that is not really about football at all, I Am Zlatan is a captivating look at the fine line between success and failure, hero and villain.

Category: Film, Reviews, Sport

Swansea-produced indie film SINATRA BLUE is adoring ode to hometown

June 6, 2022

It is clear that the entire cast and crew put their hearts and souls into this film, and so refreshing to see this come from an upcoming Welsh production company.

Category: Film, Reviews Region: South Wales, West Wales

HER WAY: mother-son drama empathetically explores sex work stigma

GWLEDD (THE FEAST): Welsh-language horror cements a film talent to watch

EIFFEL trades historical facts for romantic fiction in so-so story behind the French monument

WHAT JOSIAH SAW: Robert Patrick is the world’s worst dad in tense American gothic

Iranian film HIT THE ROAD is a masterfully moving road trip

THE FEAST: Welsh-language folk horror film serves chilling food for thought

Porthcawl’s Jamie Adams teams with Alia Shawkat for fictional band biopic, LOVE SPREADS

Actor Matt Hookings on stepping into the ring for boxing film PRIZEFIGHTER – to play his own dad

From BULLET TRAIN to THE INVITATION – August 2022 film highlights

The belly of the beast: inside Dragon Studios, the Welsh film hub hosting Disney, Universal and more

Over 100 innovative media projects collide for Cardiff’s CLWSTWRVERSE programme

Valleywood: how Wales finally got its TV & film industry

Celyn Jones: the “chancer from Holyhead” heading Wales’ film boom – and bringing Rebel Wilson to Wrexham

‘Don’t mourn, organise’: MANIFESTO – a blistering portrait of turbulent Corbyn years

July 2022 film highlights: from THOR 4 to WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

Art film WAYFINDER takes a hypnotic tour through Britain using a Black cultural lens

NITRAM: Caleb Landry Jones shines in grim but gripping Port Arthur drama

Greek drama MOON, 66 QUESTIONS delicately explores illness, family & care

EVERYTHING WENT FINE: French euthanasia film delivers heartwrending drama

30 years in the making, stop-motion epic MAD GOD is like nothing you’ve seen before

Queer elder life takes centre stage in the eccentrically likeable SWAN SONG

MEN: Alex Garland’s sensational horror fable will leave you craving more

I AM ZLATAN: an impressively unsentimental biopic of a sporting maverick

Swansea-produced indie film SINATRA BLUE is adoring ode to hometown

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