Film Reviews

★★★✰✰ Radioman has worked with Hollywood's biggest talents and has been an extra in over 100 Hollywood films. This documentary explores the life of this mysterious man.

★★★✰✰ Set in a seedier Manchester than one may expect, 1960's Hell is a City is a gritty tale of cops and robbers.

★★✰✰✰ Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough and Gillian Anderson star in Shadow Dancer, an adaptation of Tom Bradby's thrilling IRA novel.

★★★✰✰ A man who’s just been released from a mental hospital gets a job at an ice cream parlour in Some Guy Who Kills People.

City Slacker is a satisfying and uplifting tale of love, greed and family revolving around one woman’s desperate search for companionship.

★★✰✰✰ A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle in Dragon Wasps.

★★★★★ Made in response to Stalin's plans for collectivisation, Earth is about peasants owning their own land and tilling it as they please.

★★★★★ Arsenal, the second of Aleksandr Dovzhenko's War trilogy, explores the process that the Ukraine underwent in its journey from agricultural idyll towards industrialisation.

★★★★✰ Zvenigora was Aleksandr Dovzhenko's fourth film, but his first outside of the Russian studio system... we review the 1928 classic.

Taking a wide shot against the workings of American politics, The Campaign stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis.

★★★★✰ Barbara focuses on the internal workings of its characters, rather than the workings of the oppressive system that they inhabit.

★★★★★ Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis go toe to toe in Rian Johnson's sci-fi action thriller where assassins kill people sent back from the future for monetary gain.

★★★★★ We review Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones adventure to hit cinema screens back in 1981. (Reviewed in IMAX)

★★✰✰✰ A loner living deep in the woods is dragged into an attempt by two corrupt cops to kill a murder witness in The Victim.

★★★★★ Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre is a beautifully shocking, repulsively irresistable work of art.