NAME ME LAWAND
Edward Lovelace’s award-winning, documentary about Lawand from Kurdistan, his trials, tribulations & mastery of BSL. Cinemas July 7th 2023
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Film Reviews
Kathleen Bondar
THE SUPER 8 YEARS
Autobiographical film by French Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux from 1970s Super 8 footage. Cinemas 23 June 2023 & Curzon Home Cinema.
Lara Griffith
INLAND
Mark Rylance & Rory Alexander in Fridtjof Ryder’s compelling drama. Official Selection: London Film Festival 2022. In cinemas 16 June 2023.
Kathleen Bondar
REALITY
Sydney Sweeny as whistle-blower Reality Winner. From director Tina Satter’s sell-out play "Is This a Room". UK cinemas from June 2nd 2023
Kathleen Bondar
GOD'S CREATURES
Emily Watson & Paul Mescal play mother and son in this Irish epic directed by Saela Davis & Anna Rose Holmer. UK cinemas from 31/03. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
CREATURE
Contemporary ballet on film set in dystopian future. Choreography by Akram Khan with English National Ballet. BFI/ Select Cinemas 03/2023
Kathleen Bondar
EMILY THE CRIMINAL
John Patton Ford's debut caper movie featuring Aubrey Plaza as a "dummy shopper" laundering fake credit cards. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE
Juliette Binoche in a tense love triangle, directed by Claire Denis in Cinemas from 9 September. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
EIFFEL
Gustave Eiffel's Paris landmark inspired by love. Directed by Martin Bourboulon with Romain Duris & Emma Mackey. Cinemas August 2022. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
ANAIS IN LOVE
Charlene Bourgeois-Tacquet's debut film featuring Anaïs Demoustier with Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi. UK cinemas from August 2022. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Cockney, comedian, communist or cheat? Directed by Peter Middleton & James Spinney. In Cinemas 18 February 2022. REVIEW
Susan Gray
THE SOUVENIR PART II
Joanna Hogg's autobiographical sequel set in the 80s with Honor Swinton Byrne, John Burke and Richard Ayoade. Release 4 Feb 2022. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
AILEY
Documentary film of African American dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey by Jamila Wignot in cinemas and on demand from 7 Jan 2022. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
Sami, Joe and I
Teenage life on a local estate in the German speaking part of Switzerland. REVIEW from RAINDANCE 2021
Kathleen Bondar
THE ROSSELLINIS
Alessandro Rossellin's autobiographical documentary with Ingrid Bergman's daughter Isabella Rossellini. REVIEW from RAINDANCE 2021
Kathleen Bondar
NEXT DOOR
Peter Kurth and Daniel Bruhl in a gloves-off battle of new and old Berliners. Directed by Bruhl. In Cinemas October 2021 REVIEW
Susan Gray
CODA
Child Of Deaf Adults of the title, Emilia Jones in Sian Hede’s heartwarming feature. Oscar winner 2022 Best Picture/Supporting Actor. REVIEW
Susan Gray
CENSOR
Restrained Brit horror flick Starring Niamh Algar directed by Prano Bailey - Bond. In cinemas 20 August 2021. REVIEW
Susan Gray
WILDLAND
Sidse Babett Knudsen (TV's Borgen) with Sandra Guldberg Kampp in Jeanette Nordahl’s debut Danish thriller. Cinemas from 13 August. REVIEW
Susan Gray
ZOLA
The overlap between exotic dancing and prostitution, directed by Janicza Bravo and featuring Colman Domingo and Taylour Paige. REVIEW
Susan Gray
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL LONDON: 8 REVIEWS
Sundance Film Festival London: The good, the bad and the scary and what's in store for cinema 2021. REVIEWS
Susan Gray
BYE BYE MORONS
Albert Dupontel’s multiple Cesar award winning farce featuring the director, Virginie Elfira and a cameo by Terry Gilliam. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
BFI FLARE 2021 ROUND UP
The British Film Institute’s LGBTQI+ Flare film festival offers a platform for debut directors and what's trending. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
AMMONITE
Kate Winslet exults as the Victorian palaeontologist Mary Anning in Francis Lee's appropriation of a woman of passion. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME
Natasa Stork plays a love obsessed neurosurgeon in Lily Horvat’s psychological feature set in contemporary Budapest. REVIEW
Susan Gray
THE WHEEL
A fix of "Paris Texas", provoking a longing for big sky country where anything can happen in Emma Elizabeth Tillman's short film. REVIEW
Susan Gray
SLALOM
Charlene Fevier's debut feature with Noee Abita in an abusive instructor-student relationship set on the ski-slopes of France. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
SIMPLE PASSION
Laetitia Dosch & principal ballet dancer Sergei Polunin in Danielle Arbid's adaptation of Annie Ernaux's erotic autofiction. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
COCOON
German coming-of-age film with Lena Urzendowksi and Jella Haase. In cinemas/online 11 December. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
SUPERNOVA
Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth in Harry MacQueen's timely film about a couple facing dementia. In Cinemas & online 2020. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
SHIRLEY
Elisabeth Moss & Odessa Young in Josephine Decker's psycho-sexual thriller. In cinemas & online October 2020. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
FRIDA KAHLO
Exhibition on Screen's revealing documentary about the iconic artist and her art. In cinemas and online, October 2020. REVIEW
Kathleen Bondar
YOUNG AHMED
Le Jeune Ahmed winner of Best Director at Cannes, directed by the Dardenne brothers, about a 14 year old French Jihadist. REVIEW & PODCAST
Susan Gray
PARASITE
Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar and Palme d’Or-winner in monochrome. When the have-nots have their day. REVIEW & PODCAST
Kathleen Bondar
SAINT FRANCES
Kelly O'Sullivan plays nanny whilst recovering from an abortion in Alex Thompson's witty feature debut. REVIEW & PODCAST
Kathleen Bondar
LYNN & LUCY
Street cast Roxanne Scrimshaw with Nichola Burley in Fyzal Boulifa's raw, BFI, debut feature. REVIEW & PODCAST
Kathleen Bondar
CITIZENS OF THE WORLD
Director and lead actor Gianni Di Gregorio in the quest for something better, somewhere else.
Susan Gray
THE COUNTY
Icelandic fearlessness in the face of adversity played by Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir.
Kathleen Bondar
GUEST OF HONOUR
Atom Egoyan's latest off-centre film with David Thewlis as an unbalanced health inspector.
Susan Gray
ONLY THE ANIMALS
The seamier side of middle-class life in the French countryside directed by Dominik Moll.
Kathleen Bondar
WE ARE ONE: A GLOBAL FILM FESTIVAL
On YouTube, includes Epic of Everest/ score Simon Fisher Turner. Support COVID 19 charities.
Susan Gray
THE WHISTLERS
Vlad Ivanov and former model Cartinel Marlon in Corneliu Porumboiu’s surveillance thriller.
Susan Gray
THE ASSISTANT
Emmy winner Julia Garner plays film production company whislte blower in Kitty Green's first feature.
Susan Gray
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
An anthem for female empowerment powerfully played by Mila Alzahran. Directed by Haifaa Al Mansour.
Susan Gray
WHO YOU THINK I AM
Juliette Binoche "virtually" seduces an unknowing younger guy. On Curzon Home Cinema.
Susan Gray
BAIT
BAFTA winner about Cornish fishermen v. second homers on BFI Player.
Kathleen Bondar
END OF THE CENTURY
Barcelona "La La Land" for guys from director Lucio Castro on VOD/DVD.
Kathleen Bondar
THE TRUTH
Catherine Deneuve opposite her cinematic match, Juliette Binoche on Curzon Home Cinema.
Kathleen Bondar
MISBEHAVIOUR
Sabotaging Miss World 1970, Keira Knightley makes feminism fun. DVD, YOUTUBE & GOOGLEPLAY
K. Bondar & Susan Gray
LITTLE JOE
With Emily Beecham (Best Actress Cannes 2019) and Ben Wishaw. IN CINEMAS March
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