The Titfield Thunderbolt
Blu-Ray Review
After the closure of a line is announced, the local community make a bid to run it themselves.
The Cars That Ate Paris
Blu-Ray Review
Trouble brews for a stranger in a town where car crashes seem to be a little too frequent.
Amazon link
Insomnia
Blu-Ray Review
A detective gets drafted in to help solve a murder... but sleepless nights threaten his sanity.
Amazon link
Cecile Is Dead
Blu-Ray Review
A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. Maigret is annoyed, until this woman is found dead and he realises she was on to something.
Ben-Hur
Blu-Ray Review
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Cruel Tale Of Bushido
Blu-Ray Review
After a salaryman's fiancée attempts suicide, he remembers his gruesome family history, which sees his ancestors sacrificing themselves for the sake of their cruel lords, and realises that he's about to repeat their mistakes.
Fear In The Night
Blu-Ray Review
A young woman recovering from a nervous breakdown moves with her husband to a boys' school and finds herself being terrorised by a mysterious one-armed man, but nobody believes her.
Amazon link
The Devil's Hand
Blu-Ray Review
Roland buys a severed hand talisman for a nickel, gaining love, wealth and fame. After he has enjoyed a year of success, the devil appears to collect payment.
Zen And Sword
Blu-Ray Review
An adaptation of Yoshikawa Eiji's biography of Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman and author of the Book Of Five Rings, who fights his way through many opponents while developing his philosophy of swordsmanship.
All The President's Men
Blu-Ray Review
The story of the Watergate scandal from the perspective of the reporters who broke the story.
Amazon link
News

Invisible crisis Seemab Gul on a scandal in education, and making her first feature, Ghost School

Putting a festival in the frame Georgis Grigorakis on shooting a hybrid documentary about Thessaloniki Film Festival

Encouraging reel growth How Spanish/Greek co-production Yerma took root at the Evia Project

Age and urgency Daniel Talbott and Andrew Klaus-Vineyard on Welcome To Tool Shed

Little games Alicia Scherson on adapting Bolaño and making The Summer War

McGregor, Branagh and Vachon bound for Edinburgh Film festival launches 79th programme of premieres and encounters

More news and features

Interact

Don't forget that you can follow us on YouTube for trailers of festival films and more. You can also find us on Mastodon and Bluesky.


It's a busy time for festivals and here's the latest:


Fantasia Full line-up revealed; Her Private Hell to open


MIFF Festival director discusses London line-up as doors open


Karlovy Vary Keitel, Hoffman and Binoche take the waters as second wave of guests announced


The Evia Project Event returns for a 5th year with focus on the forest


DocFest Winners announced


Tribeca Awards announced