WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: BFI Southbank
WHEN: 27/5, UK release 1/6/18
RUN TIME: 1 hour 36 minutes
‘I wouldn’t be here if he was a prick,’ remarks Martin Freeman of Sir Ian McKellen who celebrated his 79th birthday this weekend with a star-studded launch of his autobiographical new film McKellen: Playing The Part.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 15/5/18
RELEASED IN THE UK: 25/5/18
‘I’m so fed up with the division between young and old in society,’ explains Sheila Hancock in a Q&A after a preview screening of her new film about a widow who befriends a guide many years her junior as she attempts to climb a Scottish mountain.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
RELEASED IN THE UK: 2/5/18
Each is a Dame, they are all in their ninth decades and have met regularly at Joan Plowright’s countryside retreat since they got to know each other many years ago.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
UK RELEASE: 6/4/18
Hard to believe perhaps that Love, Simon is the 1st film by a major Hollywood studio to focus on a gay teenage romance.
WORTH A LOOK?: ****
OPENS IN THE UK: 8/2/18
Guillermo del Toro’s tenth effort arrives on these shores with more Oscar nominations than any other film this year, a startling 13.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
OUT in the UK: 12/1/18
There’s a moment in this film when we burst into tears and that’s not something that we often do at the cinema, especially these days.
WORTH A LOOK?: **
OUT: now
This film is shortlisted for three Golden Globes tonight (7/1) and, of those, its most likely victory is in the Best Song category.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: Greenwich Picturehouse
WHEN: 1/9, released 1/9
Yorkshire sheep farmer Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor) is binge drinking and having one night stands when he’s not keeping the farm running for his ill father.
WORTH A LOOK?: ***
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 28/3, film released in the UK 7/4
‘Straight in, no messing,’ jokes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story actor Riz Ahmed as the first question the audience asks is his thoughts on Brexit.
WORTH A LOOK?: *****
WHERE: BFI
WHEN: 16/3
This year is the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexual acts in private in England and Wales between adult males.
