20TH CENTURY WOMEN | FILM PREVIEW
**** Dir: Mike Mills (15, 118 mins) A coming of age story set in the 1970s with some superb performances, 20th Century Women manages to be both intimate and epic in …
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**** Dir: Mike Mills (15, 118 mins) A coming of age story set in the 1970s with some superb performances, 20th Century Women manages to be both intimate and epic in …
**** Dir: Alice Lowe (18, 87 mins) A disturbing pitch-black comedy and psychological drama that riffs on Repulsion, as multi-talented Alice Lowe plays a pregnant woman/serial killer on the …
**** Dir: Barry Jenkins (15, 111 mins) Barry Jenkins’ noble story of three acts …
Suffice to say, returning to a beloved classic, especially when it’s one of the most iconic British films ever, is always an affair fraught with danger. In the case …
**** Dir: Chris McKay (PG, 90 mins) After the excellent Lego Movie, one character stood out more than the others: Will Arnett’s gravel voiced ultra-serious Batman. Thankfully providing an antidote …
A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS Netflix (available on Netflix) Lemony Snicket’s beautifully melancholic comic series gets given the big budget adaptation treatment once again, this time as a Netflix original …
Tragedy sticks to Casey Affleck’s Lee Chandler like a leech, unwilling to let go, draining him of his vitality and numbing him until everything that he ever loved or …
PREVENGE Dir: Alice Lowe (18, 87 mins) A disturbing pitch-black comedy and psychological drama that riffs on Repulsion, as multi-talented Alice Lowe plays a pregnant woman/serial killer on the …
[wpdevart_youtube]0pdqf4P9MB8[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Damien Chazelle (12A, 128 mins) From the director of Whiplash comes a glorious romantic musical drama that boldly offers up an unironic song and dance experience with real …
Most people visit the cinema, so the perceived wisdom goes, to escape from reality, for a dose of escapism; hence the popularity of superhero movies and the ongoing expansion …
[wpdevart_youtube]C2e6Oruy_fA[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Justin Kurtzel (12A, 120 mins) Can the video game to the big screen adaptation ever work? There’s a chance that this latest attempt by the team of …
Once again 2016 has been full of blockbuster superheroes and sequels, franchise stutters and starters but amidst much dross have been gems – seek them out on DVD…here’s my top …
[wpdevart_youtube]R2Xbo-irtBA[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: J.A Bayona (12A, 108 mins) Patrick Ness’s brilliant novel about grief makes it to the big screen fairly intact, offering up some brutal human truths amidst the …
The Prequel We Always Wanted Rogue One, the first of many Star Wars spin-off films, throws together a ragtag group of rebels in a dangerous adventure that pushes them to …
Almost 40 years since their debut, The Stooges’ influence is still being felt across the world whenever a kid picks up an instrument and just starts thrashing on it with …
[wpdevart_youtube]hKgf2Q2qmdk[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Morten Tyldum (12A, 120 mins) Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence star in this romantic sci-fi, which should be a futuristic adventure with heartbreak. The spacecraft, Avalon, travelling …
[wpdevart_youtube]eUmcneReow8[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Gareth Edwards (12A, 133 mins) The Star Wars saga continues in a separate stand-alone story that takes us back to prequel territory, but thankfully not to CGI heavy …
The Complexity of Happiness (La felicità è un sistema complesso) directed by Giovanni Zanasi, and starring Valerio Mastandrea was released in November 2015 and was shown at the Chapter …
[wpdevart_youtube]KWs5TTn19qk[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Nate Parker (15, 120 mins) A searing, passionate account of the life of little known Nat Turner, a literate slave and Baptist preacher and his 1831 uprising …
A new short film produced by the organisers of the Iris Prize, the world’s largest LGBT short film prize, will receive its world premiere with the blessing of the Archbishop …
[wpdevart_youtube]3kDjUSnYDsw[/wpdevart_youtube] **** Dir: Clint Eastwood (12A, 96 mins) Tom Hanks is effortlessly excellent once again, in 86-year-old Eastwood’s retelling of the shocking landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the …
[wpdevart_youtube]9KyltHXrxVk[/wpdevart_youtube] *** Dir: Oliver Stone (15, 134 mins) Oliver Stone, once the enfant terrible of cinema with the likes of Platoon, JFK and Natural Born Killers, returns to mainstream relevant film …
[wpdevart_youtube]zQ6ny-fROX8[/wpdevart_youtube] *** Dir: Ben Younger (15, 118 mins) Another boxing film uppercuts into the cinemas and despite having many of the same well-worn tropes of every sports movie, triumph of …
This month’s DVD picks: SAUSAGE PARTY **** 15 (Sony) Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s animated comedy tells the story of Frank, a sausage, in supermarket where the food and products …