The Fam (La Mif)

This excellent, if dramatically overburdened realist drama has the quality...

Back to the Wharf

After his place at university is unfairly given to someone else,...

Ted K

Packed with cinematic tricks (cuts, fades, tilted angles: the lot!) and led by Sharlto...

I’m Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch)

Silver Bear winner for Best Leading Performance for...

Nebenan (Next Door)

Daniel Brühl supposedly sends himself up in this sly and insinuating...

Fabian – Going to the Dogs

Dominik Graf’s German Berlinale Competition entry is...

We (Nous)

This tender, affecting film threads together the apparently disparate lives and...

Five reasons to look forward to gaming in 2021

With lockdowns and social distancing measures still in place across much of the...

Moon, 66 Questions

This promising domestic drama about a young woman reconnecting with her...

Language Lessons

This sincerely felt, fundamentally misguided film amounts to a lockdown...

Redemption Room at Secret Theatre Online

Throughout the pandemic, it’s often been the imaginative, innovative...

What kind of online entertainment can you find in 2021?

The year 2020 was one like no other. It changed the way people work,...

Bicep at Saatchi Gallery Online

There were some snarling comments on social media about the price of tickets for...

Notturno

Following 2016’s acclaimed documentary Fuocoammare, which offered a glimpse of life on the island of...

Memory Box

In Memory Box, from co-directors Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, the trauma...

The Winter Lake

In a perfect example of how to make the Irish countryside look cold, bleak and...

Rice! at Omnibus Theatre

Simmering, spooning, sprinkling: simple gestures and key ingredients have the power to...

24, 23, 22 at Chronic Insanity Online

Perspective is a fickle thing. Just when one has a handle on a situation,...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Southwark Playhouse Online

How a show can claim to be inspired directly by...

Ninjababy

Looking for a film about a woman who learns she’s pregnant and then embarks upon...

Lucky

There have been a few really great sub-90 minute films recently: Mark Jenkin’s Bait was...

Justine

Justine is a thoughtful, considered exploration into addiction from director Jamie Patterson (Tucked),...

No táxi do Jack (Jack’s Ride)

Susana Nobre’s curious sort-of drama follows 63...

From Where They Stood (À Pas Aveugles)

It feels almost deceitful to call From Where They...

A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces

At the end of 2019, the most populous city of Central...