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The Voice of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania, 2025); Image courtesy of London Palestine Film Festival When the world around you is burning and you feel all alone, what do you have left? What sustenance keeps you going? What cannot be taken from you?  Your voice.  Your voice is the most powerful tool you have when you are the voiceless figure, spoken for by those who do not know you. The Voice of Hind Rajab  (2025) acts as this protest, a protest against letting the voices of P

A good film can make you feel and ponder endlessly; this one made me feel absolutely nothing, and I left the theatre confused and head empty.

" BoJack Horseman in LEGO " by Ochre Jelly via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) One of my earliest memories as a child involves me sitting in front of our family TV, cereal bowl in hand, watching an episode of Little Einsteins . I remember patting along on my lap to get Rocket, the friendly spaceship, to launch, and hearing Vivaldi’s Morning Mood  orchestrated as the animated children on screen encouragingly asked me to identify the shapes in the scene. This was my f

The Death of Bunny Munro is a gritty tale dissecting father and son relationships with themes of  alcoholism, addiction and grief.

Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro, 2025); Image courtesy of BFI London Film Festival 2025 Headlining the London Film Festival, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein  (2025) was one of the most highly anticipated premieres. Starring Oscar Isaac as the titular scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and Jacob Elordi as The Creature, the film’s supporting cast also features Christopher Waltz, Mia Goth, David Bradley, and Lars Mikkelson, who bring a mixture of warmth, melancho

Josh O’Connor in The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt, 2025); Image courtesy of BFI London Film Festival 2025 The recent Louvre robbery has caught the world’s attention. This short eight-minute heist reads like a movie – speedy and brazen. Does our fascination with this crime reveal how drawn we are to such plots? Clearly, the allure of such a heist captures our interest. And coincidentally, Kelly Reichart’s recent feature, The Mastermind , shown at the BFI London Film Festival an

The programme for the 2025 festival (running from the 14th to the 28th of November) is jam-packed with exciting new productions: if you’re passionate about Palestine and its rich and resilient history, you won’t want to miss out.

The Vile (Majid Al Ansari, 2025); Image courtesy of BFI London Film Festival 2025 Emirati director Majid Al Ansari’s latest feature, The Vile (2025), is a masterclass in bringing the modern Gothic to your doorstep. When Amani, a loving wife and mother, finds herself playing second fiddle to the new (and younger) bride her husband ushers in without telling her, her life begins to unravel from the inside out, outside in. The hour and a half that follows narrates the lives of A

When Emerald Fennell, the provocative filmmaker behind Saltburn, announced her next project: a modern, erotic adaptation of Wuthering Heights, the internet couldn’t get enough of it.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) acts as a cautionary tale toward complacency. The psychological drama centres around Randle McMurphy’s (Jack Nicholson) occupancy in an Oregon psychiatric ward; his navigation of its unshakeable rules and systems leads to a plethora of incidents, sometimes intense or comedic, sometimes hopeful or hopeless.