ARRIVAL (LFF 2016)
An expert linguist is recruited by the US military to communicate with an alien race that have arrived on Earth in levitating spaceships...
WESTWORLD, 1.2 – ‘Chestnut’
Most doubts I had about Westworld last week (of which there were few) were washed away by its second episode, “Chestnut”; a remarkably confident...
PERSONAL SHOPPER (LFF 2016)
An American personal shopper in Paris starts receiving messages from the afterlife, believing she may share her late brother's psychic powers...
ELLE (LFF 2016)
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of 'cat and mouse' as she tracks down the man who raped her.
THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
An alien arrives on Earth and sets about creating enough wealth to allow him to finance a return to his own world.
13th (LFF 2016)
An in-depth look at the US prison system and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
A UNITED KINGDOM (LFF 2016)
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.
HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.8 – ‘You Are Not Safe’
I wish Ryan (Manish Dayal) had been written with more nuance, as his suicide didn’t land a big enough punch as a result of...
SWISS ARMY MAN (2016)
A suicidal man stranded on a deserted island befriends a dead body that washes ashore, and together they go on a surreal journey to get home.
WAR ON EVERYONE (2016)
Two corrupt cops in New Mexico start blackmailing and framing criminals they run into, but make the mistake of intimidating someone more dangerous than they are.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (2016)
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that complicates her life in some extraordinary ways...
WESTWORLD, 1.1 – ‘The Original’
Updating Westworld (the 1973 movie Michael Crichton wrote and directed) is a great idea because enough time’s passed for a different approach to the...