The Phoenician Scheme
2 Jul 2025Wes Anderson’s style is so distinct that it can verge on the predictable.
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Black Bag
30 Apr 2025In Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh takes on espionage not with a pulse-pounding chase sequence, but with a wine glass in hand, tense polygraph exchanges, and psychological chess matches played across the dinner table.
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Sing Sing
26 Feb 2025Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing (2024) opens on a stage, where an actor recites a soliloquy from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. We could be anywhere.
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There’s Still Tomorrow
27 Nov 2024There’s Still Tomorrow is a film about the ever-elusive promise of the future, taunting us with its perpetual deferral. Tomorrow will be better. Tomorrow I will change my life. It’s a familiar refrain – one most people know better than its fulfilment.
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Memoir of a Snail
30 Oct 2024Memoir of a Snail, written and directed by Adam Elliot, is a beautifully crafted claymation film following two orphaned children, a boy who dreams of “eating fire” (Kodi Smit-McPhee), and a girl who collects snails (Sarah Snook). With Elliot’s signature dark humour and melancholy, the film explores themes of love, loss, and the quiet desires that shape our lives.
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Kinds of Kindness – a review
31 Jul 2024Kinds of Kindness is the latest curiosity from Yorgos Lanthimos, the acclaimed director of The Lobster (2015), The Favourite (2018), and Poor Things (2023).
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The future of cinema and moves towards innovation
25 Jun 2024Is cinema dying … again?
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Monkey Man
1 May 2024Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s directorial debut, is an action-packed revenge thriller that unifies the classical and the contemporary. Review by Ruby Lowenstein.
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Farewell Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson
27 Mar 2024Two legends of cinema are bid farewell in Oliver Parker’s film, The Great Escaper.
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Anatomy of a Fall
28 Feb 2024Since its Cannes premiere and winning the coveted Palme d’Or award in 2023, Anatomy of a Fall has rightly received much critical attention. Film review by Ruby Lowenstein.
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Blue Jean
29 Nov 2023Blue Jean is powerful directorial debut from creator Georgie Oakley supported by the emotional range of lead Rosy McEwan.
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