Ritzy Cinema Brixton

Oz the Great and Powerful

It’s been 28 years since Disney last followed the Yellow Brick Road – and given the critical and commercial whipping endured by 1985’s tangled, terrifying ‘Return to Oz’, you can hardly blame them for being cautious. Such is the cultural landmark sta...

The British Museum Live: Pompeii

Enjoy a private view of the critically acclaimed exhibition Life And Death In Pompeii And Herculaneum in the company of British Museum director Neil MacGregor and presenter Peter Snow, featuring contributions from historian Mary Beard, Rachel de Tham...

The Sessions

If you think ‘The Sessions’ is an unalluring title, consider what could have been: Australian-American director Ben Lewin’s deeply felt disability drama debuted as ‘The Surrogate’ at Sundance a year ago, switching to ‘Six Sessions’ shortly afterwards...

The Best Years Of Our Lives

Before Sunset

It looks like a walk in the park – and a coffee stop, and a float down the Seine – but Linklater’s magic-hour impromptu lights up passions and possibilities most films don’t dream of. A more seasoned follow-up to ‘Before Sunrise’, in which Ethan Hawk...

Before Sunrise

Two strangers meet on a train and decide to spend one night together in romantic Vienna.

Glyndebourne: Falstaff

I Am Nasrine

Arrested for riding pillion on a motorbike with a male friend, Tehran schoolgirl Nasrine (Micsha Sadeghi, an Iranian-American) is later assaulted in police custody. After her release, her family decide to smuggle her out of Iran for her own protectio...

The Iceman

A distinctly average entry in the persistent 1970s mafia movie sub-genre (see ‘Goodfellas’, ‘Donnie Brasco’, ‘American Gangster’), ‘The Iceman’ comes packed with clichés: washed-out colours, rainy streets, distracting facial hair, tan leather jackets...

The Pink Panther

Quite why anyone would follow Peter Sellers' cultish Clouseau is a mystery, although if anyone was going to try, it was Steve Martin. In this contemporary comedy loosely based on the original film, Inspector Clouseau is assigned to investigate the th...

Side Effects

The latest film – maybe the last; more on that later – from Steven Soderbergh is a slippery one. It’s a pacy, sleight-of-hand thriller that satisfies as unabashed, borderline schlocky genre fun. It’s also full of sly digs at consumerism and the love...

Waiting For Lightning

Rastamouse

The Place Beyond the Pines

American independent movies are regularly compared to Bruce Springsteen songs – so much of the DNA is the same, from blue-collar angst to simmering daddy issues, from passion and heartbreak to petty crime and prison time. At a sprawling 140 minutes,...

Populaire

If you loved watching Peggy Olson transform from mousy secretary to creative boss lady in ‘Mad Men’, you might have feminist issues with this retro French romcom. It’s très chic and charming but a bit disappointing when you see where it’s headed. Déb...

Star Trek Into Darkness

‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ is a brisk, no-nonsense sci-fi action sequel built around a conflict between the crew of the Starship Enterprise with a slick, slippery new villain, John Harrison (although there’s more to him than meets the eye), who’s play...

I Am Nasrine

Munch 150

Shorts For Kids

The Act Of Killing

All Stars

We’ve had ‘Streetdance’ (twice). Now meet ‘All Stars’, the UK’s latest attempt to ape America’s lucrative tween dance scene (in 3D). Ethan (Theo Stevenson) is a cheeky schoolkid who throws a talent contest to save the local youth club. His own dance...

Before Midnight

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy reunite for a third film, after ‘Before Sunrise’ and ‘Before Sunset’, in Richard Linklater’s occasional series about occasional lovers Jesse and Celine. Only now, the pair’s love is not so on-and-off: the American writer a...

Behind the Candelabra

Christmas will be green with envy if it ever gets a peek at the camp pleasures of Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Behind the Candelabra’. Anyone the less leathery side of 50 might struggle to place Liberace, the flamboyant – as the tabloids surely tagged him –...

Come As You Are

Films about disability tend to fall into one of two camps: worthy and respectful, or pointedly unworthy and disrespectful. Belgian comedy (yes, such a thing exists) ‘Come As You Are’ does an extremely good job of tightroping between the two. It’s the...