Film Review: The Tasters (2025)
Seven young women are forced into a role which they would not have chosen in war-time Germany in 1943. AContinue Reading
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4K UHD Review: Arrow Video’s Peking Opera Blues (Limited Edition)
Tsui Hark’s 1986 rambunctious, fast-moving film Peking Opera Blues gets the Arrow Video limited edition treatment. With a host of extras, theContinue Reading
Film Review: The President’s Cake (2025)
1990s Iraq is not the place to be living if you are required to produce a cake at 48 hours’Continue Reading
Marie’s Top Films of 2025
Marie begins The Movie Isle’s 2026 with a look back at her Top Ten Films of 2025. 2025 has, forContinue Reading
Kontinental ’25 – London Film Festival 2025
With a theme (and poster) inspired by Roberto Rosellini’s Europe ’51, Romanian director Radu Jude addresses some of modern society’s ills, andContinue Reading
Diamonds in the Sand – London Film Festival 2025
Contrasting locations of Tokyo and Manila form part of Lily Franky’s journey in search of happiness after a couple ofContinue Reading
Dry Leaf – London Film Festival 2025
From the director of 2021’s enigmatic What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, Dry Leaf is a contemplative journeyContinue Reading
A Sad and Beautiful World – London Film Festival 2025
This love story, encompassing a relationship over decades in Beirut, is at times funnier than you would expect, but alsoContinue Reading
Calle Malaga – London Film Festival 2025
A glorious Carmen Maura stars as an older woman who refuses to be dictated to by her daughter when moneyContinue Reading
Miroirs no.3 – London Film Festival 2025
A broken family and an emotionally broken young woman are brought together following an accident, and lives start to beContinue Reading