Oct 23
Directed by: Dexter Fletcher
Bill, released after an eight-year stretch in prison, returns to his council flat in the east-end council estate where he finds two sons, fifteen year-old Dean, and eleven-year old Jimmy, fending for themselves, their mother having left some months before. Read more
Directed by: Benito Zambrano
1940, Madrid. In an overcrowded wing in a women’s prison, a nun flanked by prison warders calls out the names of several women who, with varying degrees of terror, gather their belongings and follow the nun to waiting trucks, and then on to the firing squad. Read more
Directed by: Jonathan Levine
My whiskers start twitching when I hear a movie is “inspired by a true story” since it so often means a moralising slice of selective observations about idealised people. Thus it was a surprise to find that 50/50, based loosely on the experiences of writer Will Reiser and his real-life friend Seth Rogen (who co-stars), is an almost unalloyed pleasure. Read more
Oct 14
Directed by: Matt Reeves
Chloë Moretz goes from Kick Ass to Bite Neck, establishing a bit of a trend for starring in movies whose age-rating means they are unwatchable by her (unlike her latest movie, Hick, which was simply unwatchable by anyone). In fact, she also gets to do some ass kicking in this movie, which is a remake of the Swedish film Let The Right One In.
In a snowy Los Alamos, New Mexico, a man is admitted to hospital, his face horribly burned. Before he can be fully interviewed by the police, he manages to throw himself from his hospital-room window… Read more
Directed by: Tomas Alfredson
London, 1973. Control (John Hurt), the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) chairs his last meeting of the Circus, his most senior officers: Percy Alleline (Toby Jones), Bill Haydon (Colin Firth), Toby Esterhase (David Dencik), Roy Bland (Ciarán Hinds) and George Smiley (Gary Oldman). Edgy, paranoid, and scoffed at by his government masters over his belief that there is a Soviet mole operating within the Circus, Control has initiated an operation to meet a defecting Hungarian general in Budapest, and get information from him about the mole. But the mission has gone wrong … Read more
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
Refn’s movie tells the story of Charles Bronson, the name assumed by one Michael Peterson, who has (at the time of writing) been held in prison almost continually since 1974. But this is no political prisoner or serial killer. The movie describes him, however, as Britain’s most dangerous prisoner and on the basis of the evidence shown to us it’s easy to believe the claim. Read more
Directed by: Tomáš Lunák
1989, the eve of the dismantling of the Berlin wall. In a remote part of Czechoslovakia, a desperate man tries to evade border guards, but is eventually captured. At a nearby train station lives railwayman Alois Nebel (Miroslav Krobot). Withdrawn and disconnected, he rarely speaks, and draws comfort from reading railway timetables. Read more
Directed by: Katsuhito Ishii
No longer-aspiring actor Kinuta (Satoshi Tsumabuki) gambles in the wrong den, and to expunge his debts he’s forced to take up work as a smuggler: a mover/disposer of the bodies of people killed in organised-crime slayings. When the fantastically-named hit team of Vertebrae and Viscera wipe out a gangland boss, the smugglers find themselves involved in a complex game of gang wars and double-crossing beauties. Read more
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