FILMS OUT THIS WEEK
Two young women spiral into danger this week in Stray Dolls, a teacher embarks on a deceptive love affair in Who You Think I Am and there's something nasty in the water in Sea Fever. A magical journey takes place in The Iron Mask and a murder-suicide is explored in documentary A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy. An author turns detective in Agatha And The Truth Of Murder, tales from New York's criminal underworld feature in Inner City Rats and racist murders in the US South are the subject of documentary What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire? A lawyer tries to save a death row inmate in Just Mercy, while a crime lord blackmails a mother into running dangerous errands in Acceleration and a group of kids encounter a psammead in Four Kids And It. Two brothers and a teenage girl try to dodge mob assassins in Clover, there's time travel with a twist in James Vs His Future Self, an unplanned pregnancy prompts a difficult journey in Never Rarely Sometimes Always and there's a strange pilgrimage in The Whalebone Box, while the final work of Yves Saint Laurent features in Celebration - we spoke to director Olivier Meyrou.
- Stray Dolls
- A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy
- Who You Think I Am
- The Iron Mask
- Four Kids And It
- Inner City Rats
- Agatha And The Truth Of Murder
- The Whalebone Box
- Clover
- Acceleration
- James Vs His Future Self
- Sea Fever
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always
- Just Mercy
- Celebration
- What You Gonna Do When The World's On Fire?
Two young women drift from one messy crime to another in modern noir Stray Dolls Link
We're focusing our Streaming Spotlight on wildlife documentaries this week Link
Film music producer Hal Willner has died from complications of Covid-19 Link #coronavirus #COVID19
A student with a panoply of mental health issues pushes back against college expulsion in Inside The Rain Link
NEW DVD HIGHLIGHTS
FESTIVALS
Check out our latest weekly column, the Stay-At-Home Seven, which suggests films you can watch on UK TV or streaming services in the coming days, this week including Harpoon. We still have reviews and interviews coming in from the Glasgow Film Festival and, despite its cancellation, we'll be bringing you some reviews from BFI Flare.
Streaming Spotlight - Wildlife documentaries As the Tiger King creates waves, we recommend films that capture animals in their natural environment
Stay-At-Home Seven: April 6-11 This week's dose of films to catch on TV and UK streaming services
The watcher being watched Isabelle Huppert on Brendan Gleeson, Greg Kinnear, Frankie and Gabrielle
Hal Willner dies in New York Film music producer had complications of Covid-19
Film society launches short contest Festival of Solitude calls for entries
BFI Flare has been postponed and SXSW cancelled due to Covid-19, but we're still reviewing some of the films that were scheduled to show there.
We've recently been at the New York Rendez-Vous With French Cinema, the Glasgow Film Festival, the Berlinale, Scottish feminist festival Femspectives, and Sundance in Utah.
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