★★★★ - STUFF - Kiwi comedy a clever and blackly funny gem- The Moon is Upside Down unfolds over a handful of days. At a city airport, Natalia arrives from Siberia. She is here to marry the quiet and taciturn Mack, who owns a run-down rural garage and a space that might one-day be a café. Mack is…

★★★★★ - EMPIRE -Meeting as teenagers, three ambitious tennis players embark on a journey of lust, love and ruinous competition. Game on- Skin glimmers in Challengers. Tongues entwine, sweat drips. Dicks dangle. Spit is spat. In faces. Luca Guadagnino likes to get up close and personal. Of late he…

★★★★ - GUARDIAN -Two fantastic movie star turns lead this loving and supremely entertaining ode to stunt work based on the 80s TV series- Before The Fall Guy even premiered at the SXSW film festival on Tuesday, there were boos in the audience – not for the film or stars Ryan Gosling and Emily…

★★★★ - GUARDIAN -Woozy Amy Winehouse biopic buoyed by extraordinary lead performance- The last time Sam Taylor-Johnson directed a movie about drugs it was A Million Little Pieces in 2019, based on James Frey’s notoriously inauthentic memoir of addiction – and the last time she made a film about a…

★★★★ - EMPIRE -Gym manager Lou (Stewart) falls fast and hard for bodybuilder Jackie (O’Brian). But violent forces threaten to tear them apart.- Blood, sweat, vomit and saliva — this film is all about the body, what lurks within it, and what physical extremes we’ll push ourselves to for lust, love…

★★★★ - EMPIRE -The United States is ravaged by civil war. As the conflict reaches its climax, a group of journalists make the treacherous journey from New York to Washington DC.- In 2014, three years after civil war broke out in Syria, the charity Save The Children released ‘If London Were Syria’:…

★★★★★ - THE POST - Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall deliver wonderful performances in Io Capitano. -  Io Capitano is a journey to a world that runs parallel to the one we know. No one is sure how many young men and women from West Africa emigrate to Europe every year, but the figure is…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - The true tale of a foul-mouthed scribbler in 1920s Sussex is given nuance by a stellar cast including Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Anjana Vasan and Timothy Spall -  Before X or Twitter or even YouTube, if you wanted to vent your rage at an unjust world on a blameless…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - Second half of hallucinatory sci-fi epic is staggering spectacle -  The second part of Denis Villeneuve’s monumental Dune adaptation lands with a sternum-juddering crash; it’s another shroom of a film, an epic sci-fi hallucination whose images speak of fascism and…

★★★★ - THE GUARDIAN  - The two British icons bring a huge amount of joy to the heartwarming true story of Bernard Jordan, the 89-year-old veteran who snuck off to attend the 70th anniversary of D-day -  Michael Caine and the late Glenda Jackson bring their A games to this true-life heartwarmer…