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Annemarie Jacir / UK / 119 min / Cert 12A

Starring Jeremy Irons as High Commissioner, this sweeping historical drama tackles a moment of profound change: the year 1936, when the Great Palestinian Revolt broke through the complacency of British colonial rule. At the centre of the story is Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya), a young man from the village who serves as a connector between urban and rural worlds when he becomes the protégé of a wealthy patron in Jerusalem. Director Jacir doesn’t spare any the upsetting detail in this documentary-style film.

This film “Shakes off any remaining comforting period drama gloss to speak directly, arrestingly, to today.” BFI

Oliver Laxe / Spain, France 2025 / 114 min / Cert 15 / Subtitles Luis travels with his son Esteban to an illegal rave in the Moroccan desert in search of his missing daughter. When they come up short they join a welcoming ragtag convoy of ravers en route to the next party in Mauritania. Death stalks every corner of their dangerous journey through the mountains. A Cannes Jury Prize winner, Empire gave it 5/5, Little White Lies called it “a truly staggering and major film, one that has to be seen to be believed”, and Variety said “Not many movies can trigger your flight instinct while rooting you to your seat”.

Steven Soderberg/ UK, USA 2025 /100 min / Cert 15

A fine comedy drama directed by Steven Soderbergh that centres on the “spectacular on-screen rapport and acting chemistry between lead stars Sir Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel” (Mark Kermode). The film, which follows a skilled forger (Coel) hired by opportunistic children (James Corden and Jessica Gunning) to complete the unfinished canvases of a famous aging artist (McKellen)in order to secure their inheritance, operates as a witty exploration of legacy versus financial value. Within an excellent screenplay, the cantankerous older artist and the mysterious assistant reassess themselves and each other, while pitting themselves against the greed of the family.

Paul Thomas Anderson / USA 2025 / 161 min / Cert 15 In the mid-2000s, a band of guerilla revolutionaries run riot in Southern California, before their violent suppression. 16 years later, washed-up revolutionary Bob (Leonardo DiCaprio} exists in a state of stoned paranoia, surviving off-grid with his daughter Willa. When his evil nemesis Colonel Steven J Lockjaw (Sean Penn) resurfaces, they must face Bob’s past and run for the future. Described by Sight and Sound as ‘ two screen hours of pell-mell, crazy-quilt, cat-and-mice caper’ and the New York Times as ‘an anti-fascist movie at a fascist moment’, this six Academy Awards winner (including Best Picture), is one of our most-requested films.

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

Three American women working in Rome, Italy share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage. Each one experiences a few bumps in her journey to romance.

Brick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.