Mark Adams

An engrossing and highly enjoyable examination of the strikingly complex yet always witty and spikey relationship between two literary giants.

Bakony’s film is a compassionate and generous story of a transgender adolescent taking their new steps along life’s journey, at the same time a gentle rallying call for family love.

A fascinating spin on the narco legend, as seen through the eyes of a Scottish SAS assassin who was facing his own inner demons…

As thrilling as any espionage movie, the exciting and compassionate story of five Cuban spies imprisoned in the US is given extra resonance via the testimonies of the men themselves and the loved ones they left behind.

Intimate, insightful and at times moving, the film sees the famously taciturn Scot open up about his early life, his ambitions and frustrations as a player and how he created the template for the long-running success of Manchester United.

In a film about the removal of vast trees to satisfy the cravings of a multi-millionaire, the metaphor of ‘uprooting’ also reflects the theme of forced migration and puts up a mirror to the needs and values of society in modern-day Georgia.

A thoughtful, poetical and at times astonishingly beautiful meditation on the state of humankind and the world we live in.

A remote fishing village in the Philippines acts as a perfect and evocative backdrop for director Venice Atienza’s engaging and absorbing debut film.

Tina is about closure. There are no new revelations or lost footage, but instead a controlled determination to tell it as it is and was, and draw a final line under an astounding musical life.

At 217 minutes the film may be very long, which may limit screen exposure, but that should take nothing away from its warmth, compassion and sensitivity in boldly tackling a highly complex subject.