Incoming: In This Corner of the World
Sunao Katabuchi’s introspective, beautifully-drawn animation, In This Corner of the World, depicts the incredible horror of Hiroshima via the coming-of-age story of a young girl, showing with great emotional impact the full extent of what was lost. In This Corner of the World is in cinemas from today.
Film Review: Liberation Day
Music can be a force for change. It can also bring people together. Political leaders like the kudos, publicity and status support from bands can bring. Most recently, Jeremy Corbyn and Hilary Clinton have courted celebrities to back their campaigns. However, when the Slovenian avant-garde band Laibach were asked to perform in North Korea, where …
Blu-Ray Review: Security
The ‘80s was the decade of the action star. Muscles, mumbling and machine guns dominated a huge market which saw the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone become major movie stars. However, arguably the greatest action film from the decade was Die Hard. Bruce Willis played an average guy who just happens to be …
Blu-Ray Review: Pilgrimage
With the Edict of Milan in 313, which guaranteed the freedom of religion across the Roman Empire, Christianity spread north and west across Europe. Indeed, it tended to mirror the progress of the Romans and meet with the same difficulties. War and strife were endemic across Europe. Ireland, perched on the edge of the empire, …
Incoming: Baby Driver
A talented, young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) relies on the beat of his personal soundtrack to be the best in the game. When he meets the girl of his dreams (Lily James), Baby sees a chance to ditch his criminal life and make a clean getaway. But after being coerced into working for a crime …
Incoming: Hampstead
An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home. Hampstead is out in cinemas from today.
Blu-Ray Review: The Sorrow and the Pity
With the passing of each year it feels like our collective knowledge of the events of World War II dissipates. Whilst understanding of the major events will always be there, it’s the minutiae which is often where we can learn the greatest lessons. Take France. Split geographically between the Occupied zone in the North and …
Film Review: Summer in the Forest
For centuries, society’s response to people with learning difficulties normally varied between outfight ridicule and locking them up. They were routinely abandoned in asylums and treated to a mix of violence and sinister experimental techniques. Unsurprisingly, as most famously illustrated at Bedlam, the only effect this had was counter-productive. In 1964, Jean Vanier became aware …
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Almost Heaven
Despite being one of the most populous, powerful and rich countries in the world, there’s a huge problem with youth poverty in China. Indeed, the Communist Party has spent billions building new cities and trying to encourage rural workers into urban areas. This had resulted in millions of young people being voluntarily displaced in order …
Blu-Ray Review: The Amityville Horror
The most famous house in the history of horror film-making is undoubtedly 112 Ocean Avenue, Long Island, New York. The publication of The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson in 1977, the true story of George and Kathy Lutz, brought infamy and media attention to the neighbourhood. This only increased with the release of Stuart Rosenberg’s …