Midnight Cowboy: A Buck in New York

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman. Photo: United Artists When John Schlesinger went to Hollywood in the late 1960s, he had already made a career for himself as a thoroughly British…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

Happiest Season 

Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is spending Christmas together with her family and her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart)… but on the journey home she tells Abby that she hasn’t come out to…

The Old Guard 

When a Marine (KiKi Layne) survives having her throat slit by an enemy fighter in Afghanistan, she’s extracted by a group of warriors led by Andy (Charlize Theron) who tell…

Bound 

Ex-con Corky (Gina Gershon) starts a passionate affair with Violet (Jennifer Tilly), the girlfriend of a mobster (Joe Pantoliano); together they come up with a plan of how to steal…

The Full Monty: Desperate Measures

Photo: Channel Four Films Robert Carlyle had two huge hits coming out in 1996 and 1997, films that really launched his international career. Trainspotting was celebrated right from the start,…

And Then We Danced

Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has been training Georgian dance together with his girlfriend (Ana Javakishvili) for years when a new dancer (Bachi Valishvili) makes an appearance…  The love story may be…

A Very English Scandal

In 1961, Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) has a romantic affair with a troubled young man, Norman (Ben Whishaw); as Thorpe’s political career takes off, Norman gets back in…

Bohemian Rhapsody 

This biopic of the legendary rock band Queen and its singer Freddie Mercury was long in the making and suffered from a troubled production. The final results aren’t exactly bad,…