Review

Bao

Playing in front of Incredibles 2 is the Pixar short Bao, which focuses on a mother’s strained relationship with her son, and is worthy of mention all on its own.… Read More
What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life

Gender roles within the Hirata household are the subject of the third instalment in Yoji Yamada’s surprisingly durable family comedy series. What a Wonderful Family! 3: My Wife, My Life… Read More
Secrets in the Hot Spring

Taiwanese horror comedy Secrets in the Hot Spring proves an invigorating summer treat, thanks to lively direction from first-timer Lin Kuan-hui and winning chemistry between the film’s trio of heartthrob… Read More
The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman’s classic tale of plague, death and life’s big questions returns to the big screen. (at 21:40) Read More
Calibre

Two hold friends head into the Scottish Highlands on a hunting trip, only for events to quickly escalate into a horrific battle for survival. (at 10:43) Read More
Beirut

Set in the aftermath of the Lebanese civil war in 1982, Beirut follows a former US diplomat as he is persuaded to return to Beirut and negotiate the release of… Read More
Ant-Man and the Wasp

Paul Rudd teams up with Evangeline Lilly for a refreshingly light-hearted, low stakes superhero romp that dispenses with villains and crime-fighting in order to lay some more conceptual groundwork for… Read More
Shoplifters

Winner of the Palme D’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Shoplifters sees Hirokazu Koreeda pool his favourite themes into a heartbreaking drama that ranks among his very best. The… Read More
Uncle Drew

NBA star Kyrie Irving dons old man make-up to expand a series of successful Pepsi commercials into a full-blown feature film, about a team of ageing ball players heading back… Read More
Truth or Dare

The latest Blumhouse horror flick borrows elements of It Follows and Final Destination, as a group of college kids get tricked into playing a deadly game. Read More
Colors of Wind

A twisting, tragic romance involving magicians and their doppelgängers, Colors of Wind appears, on paper at least, to suggest a Japanese reimagining of Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige. Allusions are also… Read More
Some Like It Veiled

Primarily known for her controversial documentary SOS Tehran (2002), Iranian filmmaker Sou Abadi’s first narrative feature is not the hard-hitting drama one might have expected. Instead, Some Like It Veiled… Read More
Last Winter, We Parted

Fuminori Nakamura’s 2014 novel Last Winter, We Parted was a big hit in Japan. It was hailed as the author’s greatest work, but was also deemed unfilmable because of its… Read More
Escape Plan 2: Hades

Sylvester Stallone reprises his role from Escape Plan (2013) as security expert Ray Breslin, who specialises in breaking out of maximum security prisons. While he shared top billing with long-time… Read More
Be With You

In Be with You, Korean heartthrob So Ji-sub plays Woo-jin, a single father struggling to raise a young son following the unexpected death of his wife, Soo-ah (Son Ye-jin). A… Read More
Hotel Artemis

Jodie Foster plays the elderly custodian of an exclusive hotel/hospital for paid-up cons in a near-future Los Angeles in the throes of a full scale riot. Dave Bautista, Jeff Goldblum,… Read More
Based on a True Story

Films that explore struggling authors and writers block have a tendency to unravel into violence and hysteria. This is certainly the case with Roman Polanski’s Based on a True Story.… Read More
Ocean’s 8

Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett headline the all-female sequel to the Clooney/Soderbergh crime capers. But can the girls pull it off with the same degree of breezy confidence and effortless… Read More