Reviews November 2024

25/10/2024 | Reform

BlitzDirected by Steve McQueenCertificate 12a120 minutesReleased 8 November

People just getting on with life in dire circumstances, doing what they have to do. A mother searches for her lost son. An 11-year-old embraces his black identity. Women work in munitions … Read More

Reviews October 2024

02/10/2024 | Reform

Watership DownDirected by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October

Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. … Read More

Reviews September 2024

06/09/2024 | Reform

FirebrandDirected by Karim AinouzCertificate 15121 minutesReleased 6 September

History. The Tudors. King Henry VIII wanted a male heir to the throne. His first wife failed to deliver, so he divorced her. When the Pope excommunicated him, Henry set up the … Read More

Reviews July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

Muslim limbo

ShaydaDirected by Noora NiasariCertificate 15, 117 minutesReleased 19 July

An Iranian woman, Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Holy Spider), is staying with her young daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) in a woman’s refuge house in Brisbane run by Joyce … Read More

Reviews June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

Good stewardship

WildingDirected by David AllenCertificate PG, 75 minutesReleased 14 June

After they inherited Knepp Farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years … Read More

Reviews May 2024

29/04/2024 | Reform

A fatal belief

The BeastDirected by Bertrand BonelloCertificate 15, 146 minutesReleased 31 May

As satisfying as it is infuriating, this French genre-bender is part science fiction, part period costume drama and part literary adaptation. It’s based on Henry James’ 1903 … Read More