Category Archives: Film Reviews

Release Date – 15th November 2024, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 30 minutes, Director – Johan Grimonprez Documentary examining the influence of and for jazz in relation to the decolonisation of Africa and the geopolitical response in the 1950s and 60s. The spirit of jazz permeates into every frame of Johan Grimonprez’s SoundtrackContinue reading “LFF 2024: Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat – Review”

Release Date – TBC, Cert – N/A, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Director – Noémie Merlant A late-night, mid-heatwave party between three friends (Sanda Codreanu, Soulheila Yacoub, Noémie Merlant) and a handsome neighbour (Lucas Bravo) takes a threatening and deadly turn, leading the trio to figure out how to dispose of a body. TheContinue reading “LFF 2024: The Balconettes – Review”

Release Date – 9th May 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 39 minutes, Director – Lorcan Finnegan Waiting for a call to confirm his purchase of his childhood home, The Surfer (Nicolas Cage) is confined to a car park in the Australian heat, days before Christmas, being attacked and manipulated by a groupContinue reading “LFF 2024: The Surfer – Review”

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”