FILMS OUT THIS WEEK
Mormon missionaries visit the wrong house this week in Heretic, there's courtroom drama in Juror #2, a sex worker marries the son of an oligarch in Anora and a weekend romance changes everything in Falling Into Place - see our interview with director Aylin Tezel. A farmer defends his fellow villagers in The Last Front - read what director and star Julien Hayet-Kerknawi and Iain Glen told us about it - while a gangster faces up to a brain disease in Absolution and a Hollywood legend is remembered in Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story. Old friends reunite in Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door - we spoke with stars Tilda Swinton and Alessandro Nivola - while a family is tormented by an abusive relative in The Front Room, the story of Cyprus is told in The Divided Island and Exhibition On Screen presents art documentary Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers. The story of Milli Vanilli is dramatised in Girl You Know It's True, a murder accusation propels an actress to stardom in The Crime Is Mine, and a lawyer helps a cartel boss start a new life as a woman in Emilia Perez. A journalist investigates her own sexual assault in documentary Black Box Diaries, and the return of looted artworks to Benin is addressed in Dahomey. Contestants are forced into a deadly game show in DarkGame - see what director Howard J Ford told us about it - while middle-aged male strippers find themselves in supernatural peril in Members Club, a prisoner flees through a post-apocalyptic world in Azrael and there are re-releases for time travel tale Back To The Future Part II and horror classics A Nightmare On Elm Street and Halloween.
We also have a great selection of film and streaming suggestions in our Stay-at-Home Seven. Plus read our selection of London Film Festival highlights.
DVD/STREAMING HIGHLIGHTS
Firebrand
Streaming now on Amazon
The Third Man
HD-DVD Review
FESTIVALS
We're bringing you news, reviews and more from the Leeds International Film Festival, where Wake In Fright is screening. We're also covering the London Korean Film Festival and the Belfast Film Festival, plus we still have reviews coming in from Halloween Frightfest.
In hot water Blake Rice on the sting of first love, the importance of fun on set, and Tea
Going to the mat Amir Zargara on paying tribute to Navid Afkari with A Good Day Will Come
It's all life Alan Rudolph on what’s in Breakfast Of Champions and not in Kurt Vonnegut’s novel
Small town problems Boston McConnaughey and Renny Grames on Utah, demolition derbies and Alien Country
'The real horror is how they treat each other' Nikol Cybulya on trauma and relationships in Tomorrow I Die
Kneecap dominates BIFA nominations Love Lies Bleeding and The Outrun in hot pursuit
We're bringing you all the latest from the Belfast Film Festival, the London Korean Film Festival and the Leeds International Film Festival.
We're looking forward to Abertoir.
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