Film Editorial
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DVD/Blu-ray: Border
Borders both personal and geographical, real and fantastical, are examined in this engrossing modern folk tale from Iranian-Swedish director Abi Abbassi.
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Apollo 11
Released to coincide with the 50thanniversary of the Moon landing, this stirring documentary broadly eschews chronicling the socio-political backdrop of the mission, or profil...
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Tell It to the Bees
Adapted from the novel by actor Fiona Shaw this over-earnest middlebrow romance feels more suited to cosy Sunday night TV viewing than the big screen. Paquin, revisiting the l...
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Gwen
Set in Snowdonia during the Industrial Revolution, writer-director McGregor’s feature debut is a social realist period drama with a supernatural undertow. Worthington-Cox is t...
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Vita and Virginia
This adaptation of actor-screenwriter Eileen Atkins’ 1992 play from UK writer-director Chanya Button charts the passionate relationship between aristocrat and poet Vita Sackvi...
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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
His previous music-related pictures, ‘Kurt and Courtney’ and ‘Whitney Can I Be Me’ have seen documentarian Nick Broomfield displaying little interest in the actual music, conc...
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Only You
This Glasgow-set relationship drama begins like a mainstream romance, albeit one with tastefully autumnal-hued trappings, then seems to be gearing up for a psychological thril...
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Gloria Bell
Chilean writer-director Leila continues to impress with this very faithful, but nonetheless essential remake of his own 2013 picture ‘Gloria’. Julianne Moore is the titular ch...
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Support the Girls
The Hooters bar-style setting and innuendo-laden title of erstwhile mumblecore auteur Andrew Bujalski’s latest belies a sympathetic and big-hearted study of workers in the wor...
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In Fabric
Genre-bending director Peter Strickland's consumer satire meets comic horror feels like a Giallo picture reimagined as a disturbing early 80s UK sitcom. Sheila (Jean-Baptiste)...
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Sunset
Set in 1913 on the eve of WW1 in the closing days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Laszlo Nemes’ follow-up to his debut feature masterpiece ‘Son of Saul’ is a wilfully oblique ...
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We the Animals
The influence of Terrence Malick and David Gordon Green’s ‘George Washington’ hang very heavily over the debut fiction feature from US Documentary filmmaker Zagar, a coming-of...
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Amazing Grace
In 1972 queen of soul Aretha Franklin, at the height of her commercial success, went back to her roots to record the gospel album ‘Amazing Grace’ over two nights at LA’s New T...
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