GENTLE, ANGRY WOMEN is a film showing us why the Greenham Common protests’ legacy still matters
Gentle, Angry Women, a documentary about the 1980s Greenham Common protests, combines a retrospective angle with contemporary context.
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Raw, gutsy and believable, EFFI O BLAENAU is essential Welsh filmmaking
In the wake of continuing austerity, COVID and a world where the have-nots are ignored, Effi O Blaenau feels like a howl at injustice everywhere.
KÖLN 75: the true story of a teenage jazz promoter’s riskiest gambit
Fittingly, for a film about a Keith Jarrett improv concert, Köln 75's director had to find creative ways around not having the rights to Jarrett’s music.
POWER BALLAD: a movie as heartfelt as the music biz is heartless
Director John Carney is back with Power Ballad, a superbly entertaining heartfelt comedy drama about the meaning of life and music itself.
CALLUM SCOTT HOWELLS shines in MADFABULOUS, a tale of aristocratic excess in Victorian Wales
The stranger-than-fiction tale of Henry Paget, fifth Marquess Of Anglesey. is given a handsome cinematic outing with a Merchant Ivory sheen.
ROSE OF NEVADA is director MARK JENKIN’s latest portrait of Cornish weirdness
Rose Of Nevada paints a realist portrait of rural deprivation, set in a village that has been left high and dry by declining economic fortunes.
Dark descent: new documentary movie UNDERLAND is a subterranean treat
Visually stunning documentary Underland follows three denizens of the subterranean realm, united by their pursuit of knowledge and revelation.
PILLION: an innovative sub/dom romcom set in the gay biking community
With Pillion, debut director Harry Lighton tests the limits of power, submission and identity, and shows how love can be found in unlikely places.
THE WILD GEESE: 70s action adventure is back on screens and at home
Hellraisers Richard Burton and Richard Harris star, along with Roger Moore in his James Bond-era pomp, in 1978 action movie The Wild Geese.
DEPECHE MODE’s latest film release M is a concert movie and much more
Worthy of being seen as more than another ‘concert movie’, Depeche Mode: M is the group’s most powerful, dynamic and stylish film to date.
BRIDES: a story of British teen girl runaways, told with nuance and empathy
A complex, nuanced road movie that moves from the UK to Turkey and eventually Syria, director Nadia Fall’s Brides is full of heartbreaking insight.
THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT is an absorbing adaption of a mid-00s novel
Partly shot in Carmarthenshire, The Man In My Basement is a challenging and quietly provocative film with a compelling duo at its centre.