flesh + blood

FLESH + BLOOD (1985)

In 16th-century Italy, a young noblewoman is kidnapped by mercenaries and becomes obsessed with their common behaviour, as her fiance struggles to rescue her...

silence

SILENCE (2016)

In the 17th-century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism...

SUFFRAGETTE (2015)

Wonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American feminists who...

the walk

THE WALK (2015)

The Walk is by no means perfect. In fact, it’s all too easy to pull apart, if you so desire. The dialogue is very...

spotlight

SPOTLIGHT (2015)

Tom McCarthy’s sober, clear-eyed take on the Boston Catholic Church child abuse scandal, and how the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigative team uncovered the story,...

JOY (2015)

If there were a recipe that could be applied to David O. Russell’s output of the last few years, it would go something like...

THE DANISH GIRL (2015)

Following on from their respective awards successes of late, a team-up between director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) and Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)...

bridge of spies

BRIDGE OF SPIES (2015)

Bridge of Spies (or Mr. Hanks Goes to East Berlin) is a seriously classy piece of refined, plush cinema that manages to balance the...

EVEREST (2015)

When a film’s based on a true story, it often means it’s telling such an incredible story that it’s hard to believe it’s actually...