(Photo: Courtesy of A24 / Mica Levi) 5/5 – powerful, thought provoking and moving Zone of Interest is powerful and profoundly disturbing. It’s the story of a German family during the Second World War. At its head, the proud, hardworking, reserved husband, with his wife and children by his side. He faces being transferred from

(Edited version of the Mail on Sunday article published Dec 2023) This is my cousin Harriet and me around 7. She died a few weeks ago. She was 51 and had Motor Neurone Disease. Her husband Pete died from cancer in May. They are survived by two wonderful daughters aged 14 and 16. We are

  3/5 – gritty, action packed, ravey, English thriller Strap yourself in for a dirt bike thriller. Jack, a former motor cross champion who’s fresh out of the army, has to do one last drug pick up favour for a friend to get the money he needs to look after his brother, after the murder

4/5 Eileen is the story of an isolated young woman in 1960s America, known to everyone in her small town but seen by no one. She wears her dead mother’s clothes, lives with her unstable alcoholic ex-cop father, and works in a prison. Eileen is burning up with sexual frustration in a physically and mentally

The screening I saw of this documentary about the life and work of guitarist and band leader Carols Santana opened with a somewhat apologetic interview with the director and Carlos Santana himself. Santana defiantly said this was the first documentary he’d taken part in because he had absolute control over its making. And it showed.