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A closeted school teacher worries about being outed to her colleagues in Blue Jean Winner of the Venice Film Festival People’s Choice award, Blue Jean is the debut feature film from British writer/director Georgia Oakley. A quietly powerful film that pairs a key part not-so-distant LGBTQ history with an intimate …
Science clashes with religion as a nurse investigates a miracle in The Wonder The Wonder is a period drama with a serious amount of skill behind and infront of the camera. Directed by Sebastian Lelio (A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience) from a novel by Emma Donoghue (Room) and starring an abundance …
Two wayward youths find each other in unconventional love story Bones and All Visionary director Luca Guadagnino returns with one of the years most hotly anticipated films, Bones and All. Reuniting with his Call Me by Your Name stars Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg, it’s a different kind of love …
An evil creature stalks a paleolithic clan in truly original new horror, The Origin So, look, I hate horror films. I don’t like being scared; in fact, I’ve spent most of my life actively trying to avoid it, so I’m not the sort we’d usually put forward to review this …
Noah Baumbach adapts the ‘unfilmable’ bestseller White Noise Adapted from the award-winning satirical novel of the same name, White Noise is the latest film from Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Marriage Story.) It sees him reunite with his frequent collaborators Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver for a multistranded …
Vicky Krieps stars in Corsage, a witty take on the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria Corsage is the latest film from Austrian director Marie Kreutzer, a period piece it stars Vicky Krieps (Phantom Thread, Old) as Empress Elisabeth ‘Sisi’ Habsburg of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Whilst the real figure led …
Acclaimed filmmaker Joanna Hogg returns with love letter to old ghost stories, The Eternal Daughter The Eternal Daughter is the latest feature from acclaimed British filmmaker Joanna Hogg, following on from her colossal indie hits The Souvenir Part 1 & 2 in 2019. Those films were semi-autobiographical, drawing on Hogg’s …
The record-breaking Matilda The Musical gets a sensational movie adaption A young girl with a genius intellect escapes her bullying parents to help her classmates rise up against Miss Trunchbull, the abusive headmistress of Crunchem Hall. Do I need to say more? Is there anyone who hasn’t heard of Roald …
A witch tries to fit in with humanity in gory debut feature You Won’t Be Alone In the mountains of 19th century Macedonia, a desperate woman makes a deal with a witch who wants to eat her infant daughter Nevena – offering to hand the girl over willingly if the …
Jim Gaffigan reaches for the stars in the charming and deeply heartfelt Linoleum Sci fi, comedy, family drama, Linoleum really has it all. The “cosmically existential” debut feature from writer/director Colin West has drawn comparisons to Safety Not Guaranteed and Donnie Darko, and we can only hope it will achieve …
