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The Glassworker
17/09/2025 | ReformDirected by Usman Riaz Certificate 12a98 minutes Released 19 September
Although this looks and feels like a movie made by Japan’s famed drawn animation house Studio Ghibli, it is in fact Pakistan’s first animated feature: no mean feat given … Read More
The Life of Chuck
23/07/2025 | ReformDirected by Mike FlanaganCertificate 15, 110 minutesReleased 20 August
‘What are mortals, that you should think of them?’, asks the psalmist.
Stephen King is known as a horror writer, but he sometimes breaks that mould; his stories have produced the … Read More
The Road to Patagonia
09/06/2025 | ReformDirected by Matty HannonCertificate 1590 minutesReleased 27 June
In his mid-20s, former ecology student and keen surfer Matty Hannon returns to Melbourne, Australia. For five years, from age 21 to 26, he has lived alongside one of Indonesia’s Sumatran Island … Read More
Riefenstahl
25/04/2025 | ReformDirected by Andres VeielCertificate 15115 minutesReleased 9 May
There is something deeply depressing about the fact that one of the most talented female film directors who ever lived is also without a doubt also one of the most troubling. Leni … Read More
When Autumn Falls
10/03/2025 | ReformDirected by François OzonCertificate 15102 minutesReleased 21 March
Judge not lest ye be judged, we are told. At the start of this latest drama from François Ozon, an ever-reliable director who rarely repeats himself, a devoted, eighty-something grandmother Michelle (Hélène … Read More
The Colors Within
27/01/2025 | ReformDirected by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January
This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly odd; yet … Read More


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