★★★★, festivals, Mubi, out now, Reviews

it was just an accident (2025) (Yek tasadef sadeh)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
It Was Just An Accident directed by Jafar Panahi is a moral examination of what happens when former political prisoners think they have seen a former torturer.

★★★, Australia, Berlin Film Festival 2025, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Canada, Chris Drew, out now, Reviews, UK, USA

Blue Moon (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
After the opening of Oklahoma! renowned lyricist Lorenz Hart has to deal with the success of his former partner Richard Rodgers and his own insecurities in Richard Linklater’s period drama Blue Moon.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, debut director, out now, queer, Reviews, UK

Pillion (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Pillion is a sensational feature debut by Harry Lighton with graphic images of BDSM.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, BFI Player, Chris Drew, comedy, Drama, out now, Reviews, UK

The Choral (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
The story of a wartime community told through the local choral group as they battle to recruit for an upcoming performance in Nicholas Hytner’s historical comedy-drama The Choral, by Alan Bennett.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, comedy, Ireland, Korea, out now, Reviews, UK

Bugonia (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
A factory worker and his cousin abduct a female CEO believing her to be an alien in Yorgos Lanthimos’ surreal comedy-drama remake Bugonia

★★★★, Alexa Dalby, festivals, out now, Reviews, UK

Dragonfly (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Dragonfly is a small film. Small in the sense it’s obviously low budget (location) and a two-hander. But it’s so well written (by director Paul Andrew Williams) and exquisitely acted that it seems bigger.