The Messenger is a psychological thriller starring Robert Sheehan (Skins), Lily Cole (Snow White and The Huntsman) and Joely Richardson (Nip – Tuck, Event Horizon). Sheehan plays Jack, who believes himself to be a messenger for the dead. He sees…
Rating: Director Nanni Moretti (winner of the Palme d’Or for The Sons Room in 2001) returns to the domestic and understated for Mia Madre. Margherita Buy plays Margherita, a director shooting her next film about workers protest, whilst simultaneously dealing…
Rating: Just Jim is the directorial debut from Craig Roberts (Submarine), who also writes and stars in this surreal and very dark comedy set in a small village in Wales. Roberts stars as Jim, a slight and awkward teenager whom…
Rating: The new live film of Eric Clapton at the Albert Hall, Slowhand At 70, celebrates Clapton as the longest performing artist at the venue and also the musician’s 70th birthday. As impressive as it is to see Clapton still…
Rating: HE SAID Tom Hardy snarls and spits his way through this violent, glossy portrait of The Kray brothers and their reign over East London. So impressive is his dual performance as the sociopathic but charming Reggie and the feral,…
Rating: Me and Earl and The Dying Girl is a smart quirky, charming and very funny comedy adapted by Jesse Andrews based on his own YA novel. Greg is in his last year of high school and up until now…
Rating: A Dozen Summers is a micro budget (£20,000) film from writer, director and producer Kenton Hall who has made a very ambitious film for his first feature. As it opens we are greeted by the warm, familiar voice of…
Rating: Two things are irrefutable: Amy Schumer can write and she can act; expertly carrying this biting, consistently hilarious rom-com on her shoulders. Amy Townsend (Schumer) is a thirty-something writer in New York working at monthly ‘lifestyle’ magazine Snuff (where…
Rating: The concept of Pixels – that aliens are sending 80’s arcade games to attack earth – is a pretty solid and interesting idea. Unfortunately, the film itself is neither solid nor interesting. We begin in the 1980s (cue nostalgia) with…
Rating: HE SAID Salma Hayek plays a prostitute going up against the Yakuza in this ridiculous, excessively violent exploitation flick from director Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Knights of Badassdom). Originally intended as a starring vehicle for Kate…