FILMS OUT THIS WEEK

A disabled wrestler chases his dream this week in Unstoppable, a funeral brings family secrets to the fore in On Becoming A Guinea Fowl, and world leaders have a strange encounter in Rumours - see what director Guy Maddin had to say about it. The work of Ukrainian artists is explored in Porcelain War, a film studio is celebrated in Merchant Ivory, and a teacher's attitude to food becomes dangerous in Club Zero - we spoke with director Jessica Hausner. Himalayan moths feature in Nocturnes, all the game world's a stage in Grand Theft Hamlet, a woman's dislike of domesticity takes a strange turn in Nightbitch and the story of a pastor who resisted the Nazis is dramatised in Bonhoeffer: Pastor. Spy. Assassin. Adventure is on the cards in Moana 2, while 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. A detective with hearing loss and a Deaf witness team up in Silent Hour, 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 Emmanuelle is screening. We've also still got reviews coming in from Tallinn Black Nights and DOC NYC.

News

On the borderline Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo on crossing genres in The Soul Eater

Camp culture Andrew Reich with Ed Bahlman on Born Innocent: The Redd Kross Story

Hunt for truth Director Christos Pitharas on building fiction on fact in his latest feature

Happy holidays Nick Frost and Aisling Bea on playing Brits abroad in Get Away

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

Kneecap sweeps the BIFAs Seven awards for Irish outsider

Emilia Pérez shines at the European Film Awards The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent wins Best Short

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