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La Bola Negra

Review preview for La Bola Negra

La Bola Negra was an unfinished work in a life cut short but the film named (variously) for it is extension and tribute and triumph.

Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5

Drama exploring the inter-connected lives of three gay men.
Ghost Town

Review preview for Ghost Town

More poetic than narrative, its disparate stories connecting as a sort of shared elegy to what and whom has been lost.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5

Documentary takes a ride in a series of taxis in a Japanese city that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami.
Godzilla Minus Zero

Review preview for Godzilla Minus Zero

The first Japanese production to be shot specifically for IMAX, there's plenty big on that big big screen.

Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5

Japan, 1949. Pilot Kōichi, his wife Noriko and adoptive daughter Akiko are attempting to recover from Godzilla’s recent attacks. But just as everything seems settled, a new danger emerges.
I Play Rocky

Review preview for I Play Rocky

Anchored by Anthony Ippolito’s performance – he not only bears a striking resemblance to Stallone, but his physical and verbal mimicry is uncanny.

Paul Risker · 3 out of 5

Sylvester Stallone, then a failing actor, writes the ultimate underdog story and must fight for his chance to play the role of a lifetime - Rocky Balboa.
Manipulation

Review preview for Manipulation

The film’s locations are a feast for the eyes.

Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5

Across Europe and beyond, a powerful elite society operates in plain sight while exerting unseen control.
One In A Million

Review preview for One In A Million

The most volatile, morally complicated material is treated as turbulence to pass through rather than weather to be reported.

Edin Custo · 3.5 out of 5

Filmed over 10 years, one girl’s epic journey from Syria to Germany and back again. She and her family navigate war, exile, and heartbreak in a foreign land, illuminating the complexities of the refugee experience.
Raise The Red Lantern

Review preview for Raise The Red Lantern

With its beautiful look and haunting themes and sublime performances, Raise The Red Lantern is Yimou’s master work.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5

The fate of a concubine in a rich man's household.
Rocky

Review preview for Rocky

Credit is due to John G Avildsen for directing (he won one of three trophies), but the real victory here belongs to Sly.

Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5

An underdog boxer gets a shot at the big time.
Think Of England

Review preview for Think Of England

This is about war being fought in a moral maze as Hawkins considers the invasion of space owned by others and the way that borders, both physical and ethical, can be redrawn from a very corporeal perspective.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5

During the Second World War group of six people is delivered to an uninhabited island with a secret mission – to make some pornographic films which in the government’s opinion should boost the fighting morale of the boys at the front.
V For Vendetta

Review preview for V For Vendetta

In making V a symbol of vengeance, valiance and victory, V For Vendetta does for a letter of the alphabet what Kill Bill did for the colour yellow.

Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5

In the near future, Britain is a fascist state into which a mysterious, masked terrorist dares to fight fear with flames
Wild Horse Nine

Review preview for Wild Horse Nine

Malkovich and Rockwell are magnetic.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5

Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee are dispatched from Santiago to Rapa Nui.