By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
2023 has already been an incredible year for Paul Mescal with a Best Actor Olivier and Oscar nomination under his belt, although film God’s Creatures is very much for the Mescal completists.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Matilda songwriter Tim Minchin (Groundhog Day, Old Vic) took to social media over the holidays to explain why this film was available on Netflix on Christmas Day in every country apart from the UK.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Black comedy is a term which could have been invented to describe the work of writer/director Martin McDonagh and here, perhaps, he has produced something truly unforgettable that goes even further than he has done before.
By Aline Mahrud
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
Star Mescal won our Best TV/Film Actor monsta in 2020 for his portrayal of tortured Irish student Connell in Normal People and here he plays a 30-year-old father on holiday in Turkey with his 11-year-old daughter.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
RELEASED: 4 November 2022, Prime Video
You join us in 1950s Brighton as Styles’ dashing policeman Tom Burgess meets Emma Corrin’s schoolmistress Marion, teaches her to swim and they fall in love.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
We’re reminded of Rami Malek’s Oscar-winning turn as Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody by Butler’s (pictured above) performance here as the King of Rock’n’Roll.
By Neil Durham
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
RELEASED: Friday 10 December 2021
Steven Spielberg’s bold reimagining of the 1961 film might not currently be attracting the audiences it needs to recoup its budget but it’s been shortlisted for our film of the year monsta and you can vote for it to win here.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
John McCrea originated the part of Jamie in the Sheffield and West End productions of this musical and for us his appearance in the film’s most moving segment illustrates beautifully one of the piece’s themes about passing on the wisdom about gay life from 1 generation to the next.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
RELEASED: Preview 11 June 2021, across UK 18 June 2021
RUNTIME: 143 minutes
The sultry height of summer is the perfect time to see this much-delayed film version of the Tony Award-winning musical with a big heart celebrating community and the feeling of no place like home.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE?: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN?: Saturday 22 May (matinee)
RUNTIME: 120 minutes
Writer/director Francis Lee’s last film was the monsta-winning God’s Own Country and although the subject matter here is a world apart the themes of same sex love and the differences between the classes are still very much present and correct
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