William Nicholson tackles the difficult question of how to survive a moribund marriage and accept your relationship to love in his second directorial effort. Grace (Annette Benning) and Edward (Bill Nighy) deliver exquisite performances playing a married middle-class couple who have grown apart. When Edward announces that he’s in a relationship with another woman, both […]

Mandy (Billie Piper) is a mess. A single mum to a young son, she’s constantly conflicted about her ultra-competitive media career, clashing with her unhappy parents, and attracted to the wrong men. She’s also smart and self-aware. Acutely conscious of the demands placed on women to “have it all,” she is still weighed down by […]

Asif Kapadia’s previous award-winning documentaries (“Senna”[2010] and “Amy”[2015]) are expertly woven, archival tapestries exploring cultural icons worthy of single name titles. His new film, however, on arguably the world’s greatest-ever footballer, needs both his first and surnames because friends and family know him as Diego, the sweet-natured, insecure street kid from Buenos Aires; and then […]

The Clash’s visceral punk anthem is an apt title for this passionate tribute to the grassroots movement Rock Against Racism, which countered the surge of the British neo-Nazi National Front in the 1970s. In a turbulent time of social unrest and unemployment, easy scapegoats were the fading Empire’s immigrant communities – Afro-Caribbean, Asian – with […]