LFF 2025: No Other Choice – Review

Release Date – 23rd January 2026, Cert – TBC, Run-time – 2 hours 19 minutes, Director – Park Chan-wook Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) is made redundant from his years-long, high-paying job, losing his and his family’s life of luxury. To get a new job, and reclaim that life, he desperately seeks to eliminate the competition. “LosingContinue reading “LFF 2025: No Other Choice – Review”

LFF 2025: It Was Just An Accident – Review

Release Date – 5th December 2025, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 44 minutes, Director – Jafar Panahi A group of former prisoners believe they’ve kidnapped the man who tortured them whilst imprisoned, but is it the right person and what should they do with him? Perhaps because of largely only seeing much ofContinue reading “LFF 2025: It Was Just An Accident – Review”

LFF 2025: The Voice Of Hind Rajab – Review

Release Date – 16th January 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 29 minutes, Director – Kaouther Ben Hania 52 miles from Gaza, a group of call centre volunteers try to get an ambulance to a 6-year-old trapped in a car surrounded by IDF soldiers. Navigating an endless process of requests and approvals. “ThisContinue reading “LFF 2025: The Voice Of Hind Rajab – Review”

Train Dreams – Review

Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 42 minutes, Director – Clint Bentley The early 20th century, Robert Grainier’s (Joel Edgerton) life working on building train lines unfolds amongst personal tragedy, distance from his family and the rapidly changing face of America. Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton) is helping to build the great, modern American railroad.Continue reading “Train Dreams – Review”

Wicked: For Good – Review

Cert – PG, Run-time – 2 hours 17 minutes, Director – Jon M. Chu Branded the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo) fights to prove the Wizard of Oz (Jeff Goldblum) as a fraud, with Glinda (Ariana Grande) caught between her friend and the public’s image of her. Somehow, after what seems likeContinue reading “Wicked: For Good – Review”

LFF 2025: Rental Family – Review

Release Date – 9th January 2026, Cert – 12, Run-time – 1 hour 50 minutes, Director – Hikari Small-time American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser) gets a job working for a Tokyo-based company which sends people out to play small, often unknown, roles in strangers lives. Because of the way in which UK awards releases stillContinue reading “LFF 2025: Rental Family – Review”

LFF 2025: Hamnet – Review

Release Date – 9th January 2026, Cert – 12, Run-time – 2 hours 6 minutes, Director – Chloé Zhao The marriage between William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and wife Agnes (Jessie Buckley) is put under consistent strain as he goes away to stage his plays, especially in the wake of familial tragedies where the pair struggleContinue reading “LFF 2025: Hamnet – Review”

Bath Film Fest 2025: Sentimental Value – Review

Release Date – 26th December 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 2 hours 13 minutes, Director – Joachim Trier Gustav Borg (Stellan Skarsgård) returns to filmmaking after 20 years with a personal film based on his family’s life, wishing to re-establish ties with his daughters (Renate Reinsve, Inga Ibsdotter Lileaas) by involving them, however allContinue reading “Bath Film Fest 2025: Sentimental Value – Review”

LFF 2025: Cover-Up – Review

Release Date – 5th December 2025, Cert – TBC, Run-time – 1 hour 57 minutes, Directors – Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus Documentary looking at the work of political journalist Seymour Hersh, who uncovered and reported on some of the biggest cover-ups and exposés of the last 60 years. Seymour Hersh appears to want to focusContinue reading “LFF 2025: Cover-Up – Review”

LFF 2025: Blue Moon – Review

Release Date – 28th November 2025, Cert – 15, Run-time – 1 hour 40 minutes, Director – Richard Linklater Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) leaves the premiere of Oklahoma! to visit his trusted bar, knowing the afterparty is imminent there, alongside his former creative partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott). “Do you ever feel like you’re entireContinue reading “LFF 2025: Blue Moon – Review”