Ronnie’s
The pandemic has been devastating for jazz, both in closing down a predominantly live art form and killing a significant number of legendary musicians. This new documentary spotlights the iconic […]
Category Archives: New Releases
Rebecca (2020)
What a week. First the History Channel fail to realise they’ve cast a Nazi in their woodworking show, then Netflix accidentally make a film that Alfred Hitchcock already did back […]
Shirley
Elisabeths Moths plays American author Shirley Jackson as an evil Sarah Millican in this new psychological drama. Shirley is not a biopic but a fictitious four-hander that sees a young […]
Saint Maud
An uber-religious palliative care nurse (Morfydd Clark) with a mysterious past and boundary issues endeavours to save her patient’s (Jennifer Ehle) soul in new British horror movie Saint Maud. Rose […]
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
The babysitter (Samara Weaving) is not back in this Netflix sequel to a movie whose sole redeeming feature was Samara Weaving. Two years after thwarting a cabal of Satanists, Cole […]
Bill & Ted Face the Music
It’s 2020 and the world is ending. Also there’s a new Bill & Ted movie out. 29 years after their Battle of the Bands triumph, the Wyld Stallyns (Alex Winter […]
Rocks
Set in Hackney but far from hackneyed, Rocks stars Bukky Bakray as a British-Nigerian teenager whose mother makes like a rock and splits. This British drama is pitched somewhere between […]
Tenet
A man (John David Washington), who may or may not work for some kind of mysterious organisation, finds himself investigating strange new weaponry which has been sent backwards through time. […]
Les Misérables (2019)
Not to be confused with that time Russell Crowe lied on his resumé about being able to sing, Les Misérables is a French drama based on a real-life case of police […]
Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
