Category Archives: Festival Reviews

Release Date – 17th October 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 41 minutes, Director – Edward Berger Gambling addict Lord Doyle (Colin Farrell) must pay off his debts to multiple Macau casinos whilst his past starts to catch up with him. From an introduction where he comes across as Jack Sparrow as playedContinue reading “LFF 2025: Ballad Of A Small Player – Review”

Release Date – 17th October 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 30 minutes, Director – Guillermo del Toro After achieving his dreams of bringing life to a creature assembled from the dead, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac) is hunted by his attacked creation (Jacob Elordi). In a London Film Festival where press queues featured boldContinue reading “LFF 2025: Frankenstein – Review”

Release Date – 21st March 2025, Cert – U, Run-time – 1 hour 25 minutes, Director – Gints Zilbalodis A group of animals band together to survive in an old boat when their homes are destroyed by a mass flood. In a world without dialogue the language we hear throughout Flow are a variety ofContinue reading “LFF 2024: Flow – Review”

Release Date – 31st January 2025, Cert – U, Run-time – 1 hour 41 minutes, Director – Naoko Yamada Shy teenager Totsuko (Sayu Suzukawa) can see people’s auras as colours, when drawn by the bright blue aura of fellow student Kimi (Akari Takaishi) the pair, alongside musician Rui (Taisei Kido) form a secret band. TheContinue reading “LFF 2024: The Colours Within – Review”

Release Date – 1st January 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 23 minutes, Director – Asif Kapadia Documentary intersecting images of the divided world today with scenes envisaging a dystopian future where freedom has been completely removed. “When you’re desperate, just surviving, you can’t see what’s been taken away, you can’t fight back”Continue reading “LFF 2024: 2073 – Review”

Release Date – 7th February 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 47 minutes, Director – Mohammad Rasoulof Iman (Missagh Zareh) is promoted to investigative judge, however with the benefits of the job comes a growing threat if the public discovers what he does, leading to him taking a harsher stance with his liberalContinue reading “LFF 2024: The Seed Of The Sacred Fig – Review”

Release Date – 8th May 2025, Cert – 18, Run-time – 1 hour 55 minutes, Director – Fleur Fortuné Scientists Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) hope to pass the 7-day parenthood assessment, however official Virginia (Alicia Vikander) puts them through much more than expected as a test for a child becomes a testContinue reading “LFF 2024: The Assessment – Review”

Release Date – 7th March 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Director – Laura Carreira Portuguese immigrant Aurora (Joana Santos) spends much of her time working as a picker at a fulfilment centre, she wishes for a better job that will allow her more social contact. I don’t entirely know whatContinue reading “LFF 2024: On Falling – Review”

Release Date – 11th April 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 40 minutes, Directors – Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards John Lennon and Yoko Ono arrive in New York peacefully, and looking to spread peace and love, however American society at the time displays the opposite of this, including towards them, leading them toContinue reading “LFF 2024: One To One: John And Yoko – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – TBC, Run-time – 1 hour 43 minutes, Director – Daniel Hui On opposite sides of a desk in an almost empty room, a woman (Yang Yanxuan Vicki) and her interrogator (Irfan Kasban) exchange details uncovering and linking to Singapore’s political history. Small Hours Of The Night is a filmContinue reading “LFF 2024: Small Hours Of The Night – Review”