As a dismembered hand journeys across Paris to find its owner it remembers its bodies childhood as well as the immediate events leading to it being severed.  I Lost My Body is a surreal but oddly uplifting French animation. There are two converging storylines. The difficult and perilous journey across Paris for the dismembered hand … Continue reading I Lost My Body

Bol (Sope Dirisu) and Rial (Wunmi Mosaku) are a refugee couple seeking asylum in the UK. When they are assigned a house to live in it appears to contain an evil that may have followed them to their new home.  His House is the debut feature film from writer/director Remi Weekes and it may well … Continue reading His House

In Cayuga, New Mexico at some point in the 1950’s a strange sound can be heard on the radio waves. Switchboard Operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and Radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) decide to investigate.  Co-writer and director Andrew Paterson has delivered a fantastic debut film in The Vast Of Night that may well have slipped … Continue reading The Vast Of Night

Joe (Jamie Foxx) believes it is his life’s purpose to be a jazz musician and after years as a part time music teacher he has finally landed a gig that could make his dream come true. The only problem is that he is so happy that he fails to spot that a manhole cover is … Continue reading Soul

Hunter (Haley Bennett) is a newly pregnant housewife in a picture perfect life. Her husband Richie (Austin Stowell) and his family are incredibly wealthy and the couple have just moved into a beautiful mansion. One day though, Hunter is drawn to a marble and the desire to swallow it and the release it gives her … Continue reading Swallow

Bart (Tye Sheridan) is the night clerk at a nearby hotel working the 8pm-4am shift. He also has Aspergers and has wired up one of the hotel rooms in order to spy on the residents to help him copy their mannerisms and fit in better. But when he witnesses a guest being violently beaten he … Continue reading The Night Clerk

An unusual and quirky biopic of Doug Kenney (Will Forte) who was the founder of National Lampoon and the creative mind behind Animal House and Caddyshack.  At the very opening of the movie an older Doug Kenney tells us that we won’t know who he is and for my part he was absolutely correct. For … Continue reading A Stupid And Futile Gesture

Chicago, 1927. On a hot summers day Ma Rainey (Viola Davis) and her band have a recording session and talented horn player Levee (Chadwick Boseman) has his eyes on his own stardom as well as Rainey’s girlfriend.  Denzel Washington has been tasked with bringing playwright August Wilson’s “Century Cycle” to film and this is the … Continue reading Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Kilkenny, 1650. Robyn (Honor Kneafsey) and her father Bill Goodfellowe (Sean Bean) arrive from England charged with destroying the last remaining wolf pack terrorising the city. But when Robyn befriends Mebh (Eva Whittaker), a young wild girl from the woods everything changes. Wolfwalkers is a perfect animated feature. It should appeal to all ages, features … Continue reading Wolfwalkers

1984, Washington D.C. Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) is working at the Smithsonian museum and leading a quiet life with the occasional outing as Wonder Woman. However when Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) steals a seemingly innocuous artefact from her colleague Barbara Minerva (Kristen Wiig) the entire world is at risk.  2017’s Wonder Woman was a breath … Continue reading Wonder Woman 1984