THE LAST FOREST | FILM REVIEW
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.
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.
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.
Mary Elisabeth Winstead proves an adept assassin in her own action movie which, although wearing its influences on its sleeve to the point of derivativeness, entertains crunchingly.
A brisk horror that is often like a supernatural Home Alone, The Djinn is a diverting shocker with a strong central performance from child actor Ezra Dewey amidst the jump scares.
A fantastic feelgood comedy drama based on a true story, Dream Horse races on to DVD delivering a homegrown, crowd-pleasing hit.
Directed sensitively by Mama Mia’s Phyllida Lloyd, this is an often surprising drama, managing to combine gritty social realism with genuine, magical heartwarming moments
Marvel gets its first Asian superhero in Shang Chi, an enjoyable martial arts/CGI mysticism mashup with classy action, witty banter and plenty of subtext about claiming your identity.
Treading the often-precarious path between exploitative action movie and pointed social critique, this sinewy cop thriller from Danish directing duo Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid makes its intentions clear from the outset.
A clumsy and laboured road movie, The Last Bus follows Timothy Spall’s widower Tom from John O’Groats to Land’s End, supposedly offering a snapshot of Scotland and England.