Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Stanley Nelson’s new documentary explores the life and works of Miles Davis, his musical contributions and various relationships. They didn’t call him ‘the man with the horn’ for nothing. Inevitably […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Book Review: The Secret Commonwealth
The sequel to 2017’s La Belle Sauvage, and the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust ‘equel’ trilogy, The Secret Commonwealth is set nearly two decades later, and […]
The Farewell
Lula Wang’s The Farewell concerns a Chinese-American family keeping its matriarch’s terminal illness a secret from her, like Goodbye Lenin but set in the real world. “Based on an actual […]
The Day Shall Come
Last time Chris Morris directed a film he took satirical aim at a Sheffield-based terrorist cell in the brilliant Four Lions. Now, almost a decade later, he turns his fire […]
Joker
An origins story for Batman’s most iconic and frequently portrayed villain, Joker stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a disturbed stand-up comedian who seeks an outlet for his psychosis after […]
Ready or Not
This new horror movie is the third film called Ready or Not in the last 10 years – although in parts of Canada it has the scarier title of Prêt […]
Judy
Renée Zellweger continues her campaign against London as Judy Garland, whose struggles with substance abuse and custody battles bring her to England in 1969, in the feelbad romp of the […]
