ARE YOU STILL WATCHING? | FILM REVIEW
Screened at the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, Are You Still Watching? is a sharp and witty animated trip.
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Screened at the Iris Prize LGBT+ Film Festival, Are You Still Watching? is a sharp and witty animated trip.
Genuinely creepy, then genuinely disturbing, The Maid is a Thai horror with a Hitchcockian tone that ultimately takes no prisoners.
A tale of a rebellious Polish girl forced to deal with some serious adult issues, I Never Cry is gruelling, darkly humorous and moving, with a brilliant central performance from its young star, Zofia Stafiej.
A well-acted relationship drama with some gruelling, emotional scenes, My Little Sister is an engrossing tale of resilience, failed dreams and family bonds.
Infinite is a sorry, overly familiar mess where a miscast Mark Wahlberg plays a schizophrenic who somehow knows how to make samurai swords.
The Guilty is a fairly taut one-man show for Jake Gyllenhaal, a cop receiving 911 calls as Los Angeles burns.
A Halloween anthology of dubious quality that fails to hang together: obviously filmed on a shoestring and with plenty of ambition, but providing neither trick nor treat.
For its 15th festival Iris is back on the big screen, bringing audiences the best in LGBT+ storytelling from around the world at Premiere Cinema and Chapter Arts. For those unable to join us here in Cardiff, you can still enjoy our programme of short films and feature films online.
Notwithstanding its original title of Shithouse, Freshman Year is both moving and funny: a painfully well observed snapshot of college life and the feeling all university students when they’re away from home for the first time.
You most likely know Karyn Parsons from playing Will Smith’s cousin Hillary Banks in The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air. but here's she's talking to Carl Marsh about her new movie, Sweet Thing.
Tomohiko Itō's Hello World is the kind of ambitious and interesting storytelling you’d expect from a filmmaker finally let loose from the franchise pen.
A mawkish drama with a tin ear for emotion, The Starling is a misjudged exploration of grief with awkward performances and cringey insincerity.
A dream-like retelling of the 14th Century chivalric tale of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, David Lowery’s film is breathtakingly beautiful and haunting, with a strong central performance from Dev Patel
An uplifting drama based on a documentary which was subsequently turned into an award-winning stage musical, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie can’t help but leave you smiling.
Directors Pepe Andreu and Rafael Moles reel in the audience with a documentary, of the Bryggjan Café in Iceland, to warm the cockles of the heart.
Rhonda Lee Reali reviews a documentary about the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon, showing as part of Wales One World Film Festival's Ecosinema season.
A fascinating, empathetic documentary about a neurologist who was interested in stories, finding fame through his books but never losin his desire to learn from his patients and tell their tales.
A very British love story, sweet and heartfelt and set on a holiday park, Nell Barlow is AJ, a socially awkward teenager struggling to decipher who she is.
Hannah Collins looks forward to this celebration of Japanese animation returning in person to Cardiff and Aberystwyth over two weekends, and offers a sage guide to the best features on the bill.
It’s a family affair in more ways than one in this stylish if somewhat uneven prequel to HBO’s epochal drama The Sopranos.
A rather empty exercise in style and violence, Gunpowder Milkshake criminally wastes its female action heroines such as Karen Gillan and varies widely in tone.
Rhonda Lee Reali interviews the co-director of a new Welsh animated short, The Fairytale Of Water, showing on Sun 19 Sept as part of the Wales One World film festival’s EcoSinema programme.
Of the many strings to Kimberly Wyatt’s bow, you may know her best as one-fifth of the Pussycat Dolls, but she gets up to all sorts. Right now, she’s got a new movie, Override, to promote, and wanted Carl Marsh to know exactly how brassic it was on set. That, like Kimberly herself, is showbiz.
Having written her name in history by leaving earth and boarding the International Space Station in 1995 – her first of several space flights – Cady Coleman is one of the standout figures in new documentary film The Wonderful: Stories From The Space Station. She recalled her experiences to Carl Marsh.