KinoSelect

“Parasite” Colour Edition: Film Review

The class struggle is alive and well, it seems, and depicted with brilliant and explosively exuberant joie de vivre in director Bong Joon Ho’s black comedy.

“Edie”: Film Review

Edie is a surprising film. It sets out in an unassuming way and develops into something genuinely affecting. It tells the story of a widow in her early eighties, Edie.

Baby Done Film Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis

Comedy

“Baby Done”: Film Review

An inventively disturbing life of the mind is camouflaged by cheerful wholesomeness in “Baby Done”, a low key comedy that flirts with big themes.

Impressions

A List of Inspiring Films: Impressions

I have been talking to lots of people these days, even more than usual: checking up via WhatsApp on my relatives, you know – the ones you usually talk to at Christmas.

London Film Festival 2019, New British Cinema

“Make Up”: Film Review

A young woman becomes her own Rebecca in “Make Up”, Claire Oakley’s directorial debut, with flashforwards that push her into adulthood.

Cannes 2020, Curzon Cinema

The paradox of Stanley and Oscar’s home, their island, Sicily, is that while its horizons – the land, sea and skies – feel limitless, the possibilities it affords its young people are precarious and meagre.

Cannes 2019

“Bacurau”: Film Review

Sassy, lethal, and disconcerting, “Bacurau” brings a powerfully surreal twist to the story of Brazil’s cinema of resistance.

London Film Festival 2017

“The Shape of Water”: Film Review

Like all the most accomplished fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro’s world of wonders, “The Shape of Water”, opens with a sense of promise, of magical things to come, and inevitably, with an undertone of darkness.

Russian Cinema, Russian film week

Russian Film Week 2020 – Part 1

Russian Film Week is back and in fine form. Opening with “The Whaler Boy”, Philipp Yuryev’s Venice Days winner, the programme also features shorts, masterclasses and talks, including a conversation with Andrey Zviagintsev.

Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller

“Detroit”: A Collision of Genres

Nightmare on 12th Street. July 1967, a sweltering summer in Detroit. The city erupts into rebellion. Looting, arson, snipers.

Classics, Science Fiction

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”: Film Review

It’s over 40 years since film audiences were struck by the childlike wonder of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

Horror, London Film Festival 2019, Science Fiction

“Colour Out of Space”: Film Review

This stellar adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” marks a brilliant return for cult director Richard Stanley.

Jesse Buckley in Charlie Kaufman's I am Thinking of Ending Things

Dark Romance, Netflix

“I am Thinking of Ending Things”: Film Review

“I am Thinking of Ending Things” is a work steeped in the uncanny which while it hints at horror, borrowing some of the genre’s tropes and cues, delivers instead only horror of a purely existential kind.