The Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, is the subject of the new biographical film Respect starring Jennifer Hudson in the lead role.
The Killing of Two Lovers is a carefully crafted slow-burn character study that uses the familiar topic of a frail relationship as a vehicle to explore hard emotions in a realistic way.
The Stillwater trailer sees Matt Damon play a father desperate to clear his daughter’s name and have her freed from a French prison.
Dev Patel leads an outstanding cast in acclaimed director David Lowery’s high fantasy drama from A24 Films, The Green Knight.
More than ever, many directors want to tackle the aspect of social media and its impact on today’s culture. Most that try to deliver a message on this subject fail to entertain or engage, and unfortunately, Gia Coppola’s new film, Mainstream, does the same.
While At War is a lyrical and symbolic meditation of the Spanish philosopher and writer Miguel de Unamuno that speaks directly to a modern audience, warning against the dangers of political apathy, fascism, and ambiguity.
Robin Wright’s directorial debut Land has audiovisual gems and tense moments but fails to hit most of its emotional targets.
London’s National Theatre delivers an original film for television, a glossed and stylised theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece, Romeo & Juliet.
Spider is a hot-blooded, politically charged Chilean film set during and after the fascist rising against Allende, the first-ever democratically elected socialist president.
Ed Helms and Patti Harrison lead Together Together, a warm tale about a couple of lonely souls uniting to make a problematic surrogate pregnancy work.
Oh, wouldn’t it be nice to spend the summer in Greece? First, it was Meryl Streep and company singing and dancing ABBA songs on the Greek islands in the Mamma Mia! films, and now we have Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough partying and travelling the country in Monday.
The final years of Billie Holiday’s life, her struggles to maintain her prolific image and the hardships of being a person of colour during the prohibition era are poorly represented in the lacklustre biopic, The United States vs. Billie Holiday.
Toni Collette and Damian Lewis star in Dream Horse, an uplifting story of a small-town uniting to breed and raise a racehorse.
Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth prove they are still masters of their craft in Supernova, a choppy story of love, regret and saying goodbye.
A soldier is always at war, even after his mission is finished. That’s the idea behind Escape and Evasion, a film written and directed by Storm Ashwood.
Violation takes a different tone in covering a complex topic, getting all the “subgenre regulations” out of the way, both for better and worse.
