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A documentary about Scientology, based on a book, that reveals a lot about the inner workings of the 'church' but leaves a lot of ...

A bio-pic of Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who turns out to have been much more troubled than I  could have imagined from the music. A g...

Watched this last night, at the cinema, as part of a ‘première’ with live Q&A with director and producer. Glad I did, because some fi...

A musical about a serial killer. Well, actually a setting to opera-style music of the verbatim transcripts gathered by researchers who spe...

Slightly dull and plodding romcom, without much rom or com. Young man channelling his inner 'Alfie' comes to London, uses his char...

Watched this in a free screening at the achingly cool venue Passing Clouds, in super-hip Dalston. A zero budget film made over three years...

Watched on iPlayer via Chromecast, and watched for the second time. Not entirely through choice, because it isn't really worth watchin...

A largely pointless, shapeless film. I went to see this because I understood it was a follow-on from 'Hope and Glory', also semi-a...

This is a film version of Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windermere's Fan", transposed to a 1930s Amalfi ex-pat scene of wealthy Am...

I watched this last night at the Earl Haig Hall in Crouch End, projected from a laptop (as is typical of such showings, there was a low ba...

Watched this again last night, on an old-fashioned DVD. Had forgotten how brilliant it is - the complexity of the plot (not only is it not...

A striking example of how far mainstream attitudes have moved on issues of gender and sexuality. This film depicts the life and loves of a...

A really, really good film, though not at all a feel-good film. It's a slice through contemporary Ireland with all its pain and troubl...

I quite liked this - CZJ is at her best, actually acting as opposed to just looking beautiful, though she is a bit implausibly beautiful a...

Cheerful restaurant cooking film, devoid of tension or narrative interest. 'Artist' chef who loves food loses job when he refuses ...

Quite pleasant no-rom com about the music business - Keira Knightley is a singer-songwriter with integrity who gets taken up by a washed-u...

Pretty to look at but dull. Not much plot, a few moments of nearly pointless melodrama, acting generally not all that good – though Alan ...

This picture from the Girona Jewish Museum apparently depicts a Jewish wedding. The rabbi is wearing a bishop's mitre. Did rabbis ever...

I didn't think much of this. First, I was bored much of the time. Lots of courtroom scenes, without much drama. I never really engage...

This film is very much in the tradition of small-community-conspires-to-deceive-outsider movies, as established by ‘Whisky Galore’ and ref...