When people in Littlehampton — including conservative local, Edith–begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, the rowdy, Irish migrant, Rose, is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town’s women investigate. Based on a stranger-than-fiction true story.
Year: 2023
Director: Thea Sharrock
Cast: Jessie Buckley Olivia Colman Timothy Spall Anjana Vasan, Thea Sharrock
Language: English
Duration: 100 Minutes
Cert: 15
Story of the American Samoa soccer team, who suffered the worst loss in World Cup history, losing to Australia 31-0 in 2001. With the 2014 World Cup approaching, the team recruits a down on his luck, maverick coach (Fassbender) to help turn their fate around.
Year: 2023
Director: Taika Waititi
Cast: Michael Fassbender Oscar Kightley Kaimana
Language: English
Duration: 104 Minutes
Cert: PG-13
When her husband Samuel is mysteriously found dead in the snow below their secluded chalet, Sandra becomes the main suspect when the police begin to question whether he fell or was pushed.
The trial soon becomes not just an investigation, but a gripping psychological journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s complicated marriage.
Year: 2023
Director: Justine Triet
Cast: Sandra Hüller,Swann Arlaud,Milo Machado-Graner
Language: French, English
Duration: 151 Minutes
Cert: 15
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times. There is growing anger, resentment, and a lack of hope among the residents, but the pub and its proprietor TJ are a fond presence to their customers. When a group of Syrian refugees move into the floundering village, a decisive rift fueled by prejudices develops between the community and its newest inhabitants. The formation of an unexpected friendship between TJ and a young Syrian woman named Yara opens up new possibilities for the divided village in this deeply moving drama about loss, fear, and the difficulty of finding hope.
Loach, who is 87 years old, has announced that The Old Oak will be his final film.
Year: 2023
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson
Language: English, Arabic
Duration: 113 Minutes
Cert: 15
In a last-ditch mission to get recognition for her talent, a non-conformist, forgotten artist persuades her psychiatric nurse to take her on a road trip back to where her story began – but with so many deviations into the past along the way, will they ever make it? Beautifully written with a great cast, impressive visuals and real heart.
Year: 2022
Director: Carol Morley
Cast: Monica Dolan, Kelly Macdonald, Gina McKee
Language: English
Duration: 108 Minutes
Cert: 12
Hailed at the Cannes Film Festival as Wenders’s greatest masterpiece in recent years, Perfect Days follows Hirayama, who lives a life of blissful contentment, spending his days balancing his job as a caretaker of Tokyo’s public toilets with his passion for music, literature and photography. His structured routine is slowly interrupted by unexpected encounters that force him to reconnect with his past.
Combining a refreshingly unstereotypical depiction of the Japanese capital with a soundtrack comprised of iconic hits from the 60s and 80s, this is a subtle, shimmering and ultimately life-affirming reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us.
Year: 2023
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Koji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano
Language: Japanese, English
Duration: 124 Minutes
Cert: PG
In this good-natured comedy drama, set in the 1970s, an unpopular teacher, a rebellious student, and a recently-bereaved school cook form an unexpected bond while forced to stay in a boarding school over the Christmas break.
Year: 2023
Director: Alexander Payne
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy, Randolph Dominic Sessa
Language: English
Duration: 133 Minutes
Cert: 15
