Showing Type: Film

Jacques Audiard’s film is a modern day Spaghetti Western. It’s hard-hitting, full of great landscapes, incredible set pieces, thought-provoking dialogue, fascinating characters and very loud guns.

“Rocketman” manages to be campy and yet sincere, serious and yet ridiculous, profound and yet silly, and quite wonderful. Just like Elton himself.

Capernaum (“Chaos”) tells the story of Zain (Zain al Rafeea), a Lebanese boy who sues his parents for the “crime” of giving him life. It’s a breath-taking tale of underdogs on the streets of Beirut. It was given a standing ovation at Cannes and was nominated for an Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film).

A Man For All Seasons proved a smash hit, becoming one of the highest grossing films of 1966. It would go on to win six Academy Awards including Best Picture,

Jessie Buckley plays Rose-Lynn Harlan who is a hard-drinking Glaswegian, single mum and ex-con, desperate to make it in Nashville but forced to work instead as a cleaner.

Winning over 25 awards, Woman at War is a jet-black comedy about a woman fighting to save the planet and adopt a child at the same time. Treating its timely themes with a deceptively light touch, Woman at War is easy to enjoy in the moment, yet its impact lingers long after the closing credits roll.

Director Barry Jenkins has taken James Baldwin’s classic 70s novel and turned it into the closest visual representation of young love you’re likely to see. Beale Street is magical film-making which looks for, and finds, beauty in the most unlikely of places.

This film is an upbeat British comedy inspired by the true story of an all-male capella folk singing group from Port Isaac in Cornwall called the Fisherman’s Friends. Fisherman’s Friends has a great cast and good humour in abundance.

The White Crow is a sumptuous biopic about Nureyev, the volatile ballet star born in poverty who changed the very nature of dance to become a cultural icon.

The Kindergarten Teacher is a brilliantly understated study of obsession, a perfectly poised portrait of a woman on the edge. It is a haunting and sometimes uncomfortable dip into the mind and desires of a woman who feels stifled by the life she’s chosen for herself and aspires to be as creative as the poets she admires.