2025: A Year in Film

12 Monday Jan 2026

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2025, A Year in Films and TV, Barbara Loden, BFI, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry, Brian Murphy, Chase Infiniti, Cheers, Claudia Cardinale, Close Your Eyes, Corsica, David Lynch, Diane Ladd, Eka Chavleishvili, Elena Gorfinkel, Elene Naveriani, Film Noir, From Hilde With Love, Gene Hackman, George and Mildred, George Wendt, Georgia, Germany, Ghjuvanna Benedetti, Hard Truths, Hilde Coppi, India, Iran, It Was Just An Accident, Jafar Panahi, Joana Santos, Josh O'Connor, Julien Colonna, Kathy Burke, Kelly Reichardt, Laura Carreira, Liv Lisa Fries, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Martin Scorsese, Mayukh Sen, Merle Oberon, Mike Leigh, Nina Mae McKinney, Norman Eshley, On Falling, One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson, Picturehouse, Portugal, Prunella Scales, Rebekah Del Rio, Robert Redford, Sandhya Suri, Santosh, Saveriu Santucci, Scotland, Shahana Goswami, Some Like It Hot, Spain, Steven Cohan, Terence Stamp, The Kingdom, The Mastermind, The New Hollywood, Thomas Pynchon, Victor Erice, Wanda

Adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s novel, Vineland, no recent film speaks to our chaotic moment like One Battle After Another. Hilarious and unrelenting – with bravura turns from Leonardo DiCaprio, Benicio Del Toro, newcomer Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall – this screwball odyssey affirms director Paul Thomas Anderson as America’s millennial auteur. Continue reading →

2023: A Year in Film

02 Tuesday Jan 2024

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A Year in Films and TV, Aftersun, Aki Kaurismäki, Alcarràs, Babak Jalali, Broker, Buck and the Preacher, Carla Simón, Catalonia, Charlotte Wells, China, David Leland, Davy Chou, Elisa Jordan, Fallen Leaves, Finland, Fremont, Fyzal Boulifa, Gina Gammell, Hirokazu Koreeda, Humphrey Bogart, Iran, Jim Jarmusch, Killers of the Flower Moon, Korea, Lauren Bacall, Léonor Seraille, Li Ruijun, Marilyn Monroe, Martin Scorsese, Morocco, Mother and Son, Paul Sng, Return to Dust, Return to Seoul, Richard Barrios, Riley Keough, Shirley Anne Field, Sidney Poitier, Spain, The Damned Don't Cry, The Last Stage, The Old Oak, Tish Murtha, Wanda Jakubowska, War Pony, William J. Mann, Wish You Were Here

Adapted from David Grann’s history of the Osage murders, Killers of the Flower Moon was – for me at least – the cinematic event of 2023. With authoritative performances from Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and a luminous Lily Gladstone, plus the painterly cinematography of Jack Fisk and a subtly insistent final score from the late Robbie Robertson, Killers channels the spirit of the first revisionist Westerns. While perhaps lacking the flash of this year’s Oscar rivals (Oppenheimer, Poor Things), this is a masterclass in neo-classical filmmaking from Martin Scorsese – and a tough-minded reckoning with America’s brutal origins. Continue reading →

2019: A Year In Film and TV

17 Tuesday Dec 2019

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3 Days in Quiberon, A Year in Films and TV, Albert Finney, Australia, Ava DuVernay, Black 47, Blindspotting, Derry Girls, El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, Hollywood Book Club, If Beale Street Could Talk, Ireland, James Baldwin, James L. Neibaur, Jean Harlow, Jennifer Kent, Joaquin Phoenix, Ken Loach, Letters From Hollywood, Lisa McGee, Marlon Brando, Martin Scorsese, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Patsy Kelly, Quentin Tarantino, Roddy Doyle, Romy Schneider, Rosie, Shane Meadows, Sharon Tate, Sorry We Missed You, Starring Red Wing!, Sue Lyon, Sunset, Susannah Grant, The Irishman, The Nightingale, The Sisters Brothers, The Virtues, Thelma Todd, Transit, Unbelievable, When They See Us, ZaSu Pitts

In 2019, we said goodbye to sixties icons Albert Finney and Sue Lyon, and remembered Sharon Tate… Continue reading →