FILMS OUT THIS WEEK

Adventure is on the cards this week in Moana 2, while a fairy tale friendship comes under strain in musical Wicked and drama surrounds the election of a Pope in Conclave. The lives of women in Mumbai come into focus in All We Imagine As Light - read our interview with Payal Kapadia - a US woman rediscovers herself through an unlikely friendship in Your Monster, and Japanese women's lives are explored in Remembering Every Night - read what director Yui Kiyohara told us about it. A extreme experience of reality TV is addressed in The Contestant - director Clair Titley shared her thoughts - while a family history of abuse is explored in The Taste Of Mango and a Guatemalan abuse scandal is transformed through magical realism in Rita - see our interview with director Jayro Bustamante. Real life is stranger than fiction for The Man With A Thousand Faces, the realities of trans people's involvement in sport are explored in Changing The Game, and daring journalist Margaret Moth is remembered in Never Look Away - we spoke with director Lucy Lawless. A detective with hearing loss and a Deaf witness team up in Silent Hour, a woman on the rebound makes an unwise dating choice in The Imposters, a teenager gets in too deep with a cursed calendar in Advent, and there's a re-release for Christmas classic The Polar Express.

We also have a great selection of film and streaming suggestions in our Stay-at-Home Seven.

DVD/STREAMING HIGHLIGHTS

Packshot of Alien On Stage on Alien On Stage Streaming now on Amazon
The story of the Dorset Bus Drivers whose amateur dramatics group created a serious stage adaptation of the science fiction horror classic Alien and ended up performing in London's West End.
Packshot of Godzilla Minus One on Blu-Ray Godzilla Minus One Blu-Ray Review
Post war Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb.

FESTIVALS

We're covering the French Film Festival UK, where La Piscine is screening. We've also still got reviews coming in from Tallinn Black Nights and DOC NYC.

News

Bloody good fun Steffen Haars, Maisie Ayres and Sebastian Croft on Get Away

Chaos equals opportunity Rex Miller with Ed Bahlman on The Clash and Harley Flanagan: Wired For Chaos

Postcard from the International Crime And Punishment Festival We report from the justice festival's vibrant 14th edition

A little unpredictability Payal Kapadia on cinematic inspirations and All We Imagine As Light

In the frame Kelly Pike on coming of age, gender, power and Picture Day

A Different Man triumphs at Gotham Awards Sing Sing and Nickel Boys also enjoy success

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