Enid Baines (Niamh Algar) is a diligent film censor working within the dreary smoke filled offices of the British Board of Film Classification at the height of the ‘video nasty’ controversy in 1985. When one of the horror films she is analysing provokes memories of a traumatic incident in her youth she tries to seek … Continue reading Censor
Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) lives in the recently gentrified estate of Cabrini-Green in Chicago. As an artist struggling to find inspiration he is intrigued by the local legend of the Candyman and sets out to understand if he can use it as a muse. But the legend will get under his skin more than … Continue reading Candyman (2021)
Brentford pirate radio station Kurupt FM has stopped broadcasting and it’s members are now working as a postman and at the local bowling alley. That is until a Japanese television show starts to use one of their songs and they are invited to do a gig in Japan. People Just Do Nothing is a BBC … Continue reading People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan
Rob (Nicolas Cage) is a truffle hunter who lives in the Oregon woodland with his beloved foraging pig. When she is stolen he must return to Portland, the city that contains his past to find her. Pig is a beautiful and amazing film. One that is best discovered with as little knowledge of its central … Continue reading Pig
When Sandra (Clare Dunne) escapes from her abusive husband she is thrown into a broken housing system. After struggling to find a suitable home for her two young children she decides to build her own and in the process finds a new lease of life and a supportive community. Herself features a great deal of … Continue reading Herself
In the near future the ocean has risen flooding coastal cities, wars have raged and society is downtrodden. As a respite people turn to the technology of reminiscence that allows them to relive their most special moments. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman) and his partner Watts (Thandiwe Newton) specialise in taking people on those journeys but … Continue reading Reminiscence
The origin story of G.I. Joe’s Snake Eyes gives us insight into how he became mortal enemies with Storm Shadow and how he came to know of the battle between the evil Cobra and the heroic Joe’s. Opening twenty years ago we see a young boy witness the assassination of his father by a man … Continue reading Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins
When Beth’s (Rebecca Hall) husband of fourteen years commits suicide and leaves her a cryptic note she fears that she never really knew him. Will she find solace in searching through his personal belongings or just more pain? Opening with Beth returning home from Owen’s (Evan Jongikeit) funeral we learn that she has no family … Continue reading The Night House
Beckett (John David Washington) and his girlfriend April (Alicia Vikander) are holidaying in Greece when they hear news of a political protest scheduled to take place right outside their rented apartment. Deciding to flee to the mountains to avoid the noise and commotion they are met with a tragic car accident that embroils Beckett in … Continue reading Beckett
In 1960, MI5 and the CIA recruit salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) to act as a courier of secret information between Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze), a high ranking Russian official and the west. The Courier is the sort of old fashioned spy drama that relies on excellent performances in a slow burn film that packs … Continue reading The Courier
