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‘Stitch Head’ review: Burtonesque animation is adapted from Guy Bass children’s books
Dir/scr: Steve Hudson. Germany/Luxembourg. 2025. 91mins
Excessive in his mountain lair, the Fort Grotteskew, a mad professor (voiced by Rob Brydon) is obsessive about designing...
‘The Life Of Chuck’ review: Tom Hiddleston headlines sentimental Stephen King adaptation
Dir: Mike Flanagan. US. 2025. 110mins
Having constructed a popularity as a grasp of recent horror, Mike Flanagan (Hush, Physician Sleep, TV’s The Haunting Of...
‘Behind The Shadows’ review: Louis Koo plays a hardbitten PI in Kuala Lumpur-set detective thriller
Dirs: Jonathan Li, Chou Man-yu. Hong Kong/Malaysia. 2025. 103mins.
A shady personal investigator (Louis Koo) agrees to search out proof {that a} shopper’s girlfriend is...
‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Dir: Ugo Bienvenu. France. 2025. 82mins
A boy in a rainbow go well with falls from the sky, forsaking him a looping ribbon of color. He...
‘Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake’ review: Empathetic Spanish stop-motion captures life on the poverty line
Dir: Irene Iborra Rizo. Spain/France/Belgium/Chile/Switzerland. 2025. 71mins
Twelve-year-old Olivia (Celia Sol), her struggling actress mom Ingrid (Silvia Vilarrasa) and her seven-year-old brother Tim (Hug Mont) don’t...
’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Dir: Yasuhiro Aoki. Japan. 2025. 90mins
A lowly worker at a delivery firm in a fantasy near-future Shanghai finds himself married to a mermaid princess...
‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Dirs: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver. Canada. 2025. 97mins
The riffing, noodling conversations between two Canadian half-brothers – one Indigenous and one white – are the...
‘F1’ review: Brad Pitt takes the wheel in Joseph Kosinski’s immersive racing drama
Dir: Joseph Kosinski. US. 2025. 156mins
Scintillating on the monitor however not as agile away from the races, F1 is an exhilarating sports activities movie...
‘Elio’ review: Pixar’s interstellar animation fails to hit the studio’s previous heights
Dirs: Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi, Adrian Molina. US. 2025. 98mins
The perfect Pixar movies make their dexterous combination of humour, emotion and spectacle really feel...
‘28 Years Later’ review: Director Danny Boyle returns to lead horror franchise into new territory
Dir: Danny Boyle. UK/US. 2025. 115mins
Practically three a long time after a rage virus was leaked from a bio-weapons lab, mainland Britain is now...