One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Helena Bonham Carter and Romola Garai, tells the remarkable and very moving true story of the man often referred to as Britain’s Oscar Schindler, Nicholas Winton. Winton (played as a young man by Johnny Flynn) was a London stockbroker who, in 1938, having learned of the growing refugee crisis in Czechoslovakia, flew to
Read moreWish, which has been released as part of Disney studios 100th birthday is a cute, occasionally charming but underwhelming animated musical fantasy that attempts to pay homage to Disney classics. Like many Disney and other animated features of the last few years, it’s about a feisty but uncertain young woman empowering herself through a fight with a nasty authority figure.
Read moreIn the last decade or so, Woody Allen has attempted to prove wrong Mia Farrow’s character from his film Husbands and Wives and show he can survive off the Island of Manhattan for more than 48 hours by making films in European cities. In his latest effort, Coup de Chance, Woody goes a step further and expunges even more traces
Read moreHayao Miyazaki is one of the great cinema artists of recent decades. Through the famed Studio Ghibli he has helped craft an animation style as evocative, moving and meaningful as any Disney classic or live action film for that matter. After claiming to have retired in 2013 he has returned with the long awaited The Boy And The Heron. The
Read moreKen Loach is one of contemporary cinema’s most important auteurs. Now, four years after his emotionally gruelling depiction of the gig economy’s impact on working class Britain in Sorry We Missed You, he returns with the immigration drama, The Old Oak. In a career that stretches back to the 1960’s, Loach has carved a distinctive niche in left wing humanist
Read moreSaltburn, is writer/director Emerald Fennell’s follow-up to her striking but erratic feature debut, Promising Young Woman. More stylistically assured than that film, Saltburn is an enjoyably strange, dark satire of class consciousness, poisonous wealth and social exclusion so full of indelible scenes that we can mostly overlook some slightly shaky storytelling. Barry Keoghan, who was unforgettable in the Banshees of
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