by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-13 | Uncategorised
Set in Scotland in the late 18th century, this survival thriller follows a Japanese puppeteer’s daughter as she faces a gang of ruthless criminals led by Sugarman played by Tim Roth. Director John Maclean reinvents, and pays homage, to classic samurai films supported...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-01 | Uncategorised
Told over a long Icelandic summer’s day from sunset to sunrise, When the Light Breaks is the tender story of Una, a young art student, grappling with encounters with love, friendship, sorrow and beauty. Newcomer Elin Hall gives a remarkable performance as Una...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-01 | Uncategorised
The story centres on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in an Edinburgh warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm gig economy. Laura Carreira’s impressive debut drama sees a quietly excellent Joana Santos, as Aurora, endure dehumanising work conditions...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-01 | Uncategorised
This gripping political thriller centres on a judge struggling with paranoia amid unrest in Tehran caused by the death of a young woman. His two student daughters become suspicious of their father’s increasing collaboration with the regime. What follows is a...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-01 | Uncategorised
A former USA intelligence expert, Reality Leigh Winner, arrives home one day in June 2017 to find two FBI agents parked on her lawn with a warrant to search her, her home, her car…. She’s bemused and a bit nonplussed as the interview, which uses the actual FBI tapes,...