Social realist filmmaker Ken Loach turns to comedy for his 2009 football-adjacent film ‘Looking for Eric’, a memorable version of a recognisable story starring Eric Cantona. Review by Martha Lane.
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Alex Ayre’s NORTH Wrestling documentary ‘Watch the Lights’ (2024), about NORTH’s journey to its biggest ever show, captures a special feeling. It belongs on your watchlist. Review by Joseph Wade.
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‘All of Us Strangers’ (2023) is leaving viewers in floods of tears, Andrew Haigh and actors Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal offering a devastating new love story. Review by Mark Carnochan.
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A silent era pioneer and perhaps the most influential person in Hollywood history, Charlie Chaplin’s legacy is forever. Here’s where to start with his cinema. Article by Joseph Wade.
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‘One Life’ (2023), the James Hawes BBC film starring Anthony Hopkins as “The British Schindler” Nicholas Winton, doesn’t hit every mark but does strike a powerful chord. Review by Kieran Judge.
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Emerald Fennell has done it again. ‘Saltburn’ (2023) is like a Shakespearean episode of ‘Skins’ with a dash of ‘Succession’, and Barry Keoghan offers a special performance. Review by Mark Carnochan.
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Molly Manning Walker’s ‘How to Have Sex’ (2023), winner of the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes, is a film about sex and consent thankfully absent of the male gaze. Review by Gala Woolley.
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Barry Hines and Mick Jackson constructed a straight-to-television film that depicted the horrors of nuclear annihilation in a terrifying, realistic and lasting manner. Essay by Eleanor Wise.
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Charlotte Regan’s debut feature ‘Scrapper’ (2023), starring Lola Campbell and Harris Dickinson, is a worthwhile take on a story that isn’t often told. Review by Rob Jones.
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The UK’s last surviving newsreel theatre, the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle, has launched a fundraising campaign to save it from ‘the worst funding crisis in its history’.
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Skydance Media and Paramount are to merge following months of