Movies out this week include:

Bouchra Flushed Away Holy Days Hunt For The Wilderpeople Love Me Tender The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists The Summer Book

Latest reviews:

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Tokyo Burst: Crime City Holy Days As Light As Air The Occupant Of The Room The Fated Hour The Summer Book La Place Chaar Diwaari The Peril At Pincer Point Bouchra The Last Footage A Safe Distance The Galactic Ghoul The Leader I Love Paris Zsazsa Zaturnnah! The Fires Sour Minnows Corpus

Latest DVD reviews:

The Name Of The Rose The Searchers Weapons Of Death The Young Ones The Titfield Thunderbolt

Eye For Film >> DVDs Out Now

The Mourning Forest
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A carer and a patient from a small retirement home become stranded in the forest.
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Casque d'Or
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In turn of the 20th century France, working girl Marie snubs the affections of the local gangsters for Georges Manda, a reformed hoodlum himself, with unpleasant consequences.
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A Good Day to Die, Hoka Hey
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The life story of British conflict photographer Jason P Howe.
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The Sense Of An Ending
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A second-hand camera dealer remembers his university years when relationships were scarred with tragedy and desire while living a life of selfish isolation.
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A Dark Song
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A grieving mother sets out to contact her dead child.
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Free Fire
DVD Review
A meeting between two gangs in a deserted warehouse turns into a shootout.
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Kung Fu Yoga
Blu-Ray Review
A Chinese archeology professor teams up with an Indian professor to search for lost Magadha treasure.
Westfront 1918
Blu-Ray Review
Four soldiers face the horrors of the front line in the First World War.
Girls On Film 2: Before Dawn
DVD Review
An anthology of short films with lesbian characters.
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The people's medium Theodore Schaefer on The Arrow At Rest At Every Instant Of Its Flight

Wool power Concrete Land director Asmahan Bkerat on learning about herself as she filmed a Bedouin clan's life

New eyes on Old Hollywood How images of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Rita Hayworth inspired Pretty Babies

Lost Boys Wayne Wapeemukwa on drawing on reality for Manhunt while avoiding a true crime approach

Serious about comedy Louis Paxton on grounding the humour of The Incomer in darker elements

That shrinking feeling Shivek Gupta and Syed Shadan on the Mumbai housing market and Chaar Diwaari

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


EIFF Gets back its mojo


Locarno Isabella Rossellini receives Excellence Award


London Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut to close festival


San Sebastian announces José Giovanni retrospective


Dinard Amira Casar to head jury, plus opening film announced