Category Archives: Festival Reviews

Release Date – 10th January 2025, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 2 minutes, Director – Pablo Larraín As she tries to return to the operatic stage Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) revisits her life with a journalist (Kodi Smit-McPhee) in Paris, where she has retreated to away from the public eye. “Book me aContinue reading “LFF 2024: Maria – Review”

Release Date – 31st January 2025, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 37 minutes, Director – Mike Leigh Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is bitter about the world around her, constantly pushing away her family and bringing them down, despite this her sister Chantelle (Michele Austin) continues to extend a friendly hand. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) isContinue reading “LFF 2024: Hard Truths – Review”

Release Date – 15th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 57 minutes, Director – Ben Taylor Through the 60s and 70s a scientist (James Norton), surgeon (Bill Nighy) and nurse (Thomasin McKenzie) battle infertility, the church and media in their attempts to create the first ‘test tube baby’. For a straightforward, silver-cinema-leaningContinue reading “LFF 2024: Joy – Review”

Release Date – 1st January 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 47 minutes, Director – John Crowley Rising star chef Almut (Florence Pugh) and divorcee Tobias’ (Andrew Garfield) find themselves going back over their years-long relationship, the good and the bad, in the wake of Almut’s cancer diagnosis. Jumping back and forth betweenContinue reading “LFF 2024: We Live In Time – Review”

Release Date – 15th December 2024, Cert – 18, Run-time – 2 hours 15 minutes, Director – Luca Guadagnino William Lee (Daniel Craig) spends his days wandering around Mexico City, slitting between searches for love, hook-ups and the answers to the universe – the key to all of these may be held by younger manContinue reading “LFF 2024: Queer – Review”

Release Date – 8th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 7 minutes, Director – Malcolm Washington Pittsburgh 1936, brother and sister Boy Willie (John David Washington) and Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) argue about what to do with the family piano, featuring etchings of their ancestral roots and story, sell it or keep it.Continue reading “LFF 2024: The Piano Lesson – Review”

Release Date – 6th December 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 30 minutes, Directors – Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane Out of work due to the COVID lockdown, actors Sam Crane and Mark Oosterveen decide to stage a production of Hamlet in GTA V Online, with an ensemble of other players. Grand Theft HamletContinue reading “LFF 2024: Grand Theft Hamlet – Review”

Release Date – 6th December 2024, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Directors – Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin The G7 leaders find themselves lost in the woods, where they are left alone to draft a statement, facing strange creatures as they try to get back to safety. Rumours feels likeContinue reading “LFF 2024: Rumours – Review”

Release Date – 29th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours, Director – Edward Berger Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with arranging the election of a new pope, whilst trying to find someone without a hidden dark past secrets of multiple likely candidates are revealed. Having faced the upfront horrors of warContinue reading “LFF 2024: Conclave – Review”

Release Date – 1st November 2024, Cert – 18, Run-time – 2 hours 19 minutes, Director – Sean Baker Sex worker Ani (Mikey Madison) marries Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), the son of a Russian oligarch, his family are soon racing to New York to get the marriage annulled. Anora (Mikey Madison) is a force to be reckonedContinue reading “LFF 2024: Anora – Review”