How do you deal with pain in your life? Two films that explore answers to this question are showing now…

Read this sentence: In Texas, two brothers, one just trying to do the honourable thing, one just a little wild (and doomed to a dark end) stage bank jobs whilst being pursued by a day-before-retirement lawman.  It sounds like a cliché, doesn’t it?  Yet Hell of High Water takes that simple plot and...

It can be easy to sum up the work of Spanish director Almodovar in a few words: Gaudy, loud, controversial, melodramatic.  Yet Julieta confirms new strings to the director’s bow while maintaining some links with his past.

Whilst some may claim The Beatles: Eight Days a Week tells us nothing new, that's churlish in the extreme.  The Spotify generation for whom music is a digital abstraction deserve to experience the cheek, the chemistry, the wonder of The Beatles in full flight, on stage, in the studio and before the press where their wit is infectious.  With more personality than any current chart toppers can muster, Ron Howard's Eight Days a Week captures a musical, social and cultural phenomenon with joy and wonderful verve.

During a Marrakesh holiday to rekindle a fractured relationship, Perry (Ewan McGregor) and Gail (Naomie Harris) make acquaintance with loud Russian, Dima (Stellan Skarsgard).  University lecturer Perry in particular falls under Dima’s spell, yet it is his desire to do the right thing that has him agreeing to...

David Hockney’s famous pop art painting of understatement and stillness, A Bigger Splash provides the name for this remake of the 1969 French film La Piscine which starred Alain Delon.  Hockney’s painting, a masterpiece of restrained motion and clinical design couldn’t be further from the French original that revitalised Romy Schneider’s career.  So where does this new version fit in?

Harking back to a simpler age, Brooklyn is film-making in the classic style: a well told story with beautiful performances that touches the heart and leaves you with some things to think about. But what are those?

For a generation weaned on Game of Thrones, Justin Kurzel’s new version of Macbeth comes along at just the right time.  Where that show’s author, George R R Martin seemingly gets more than his fair share of plot twists from the likes of Shakespeare, this version of the Scottish play takes a lean, bleak approach that matches the icy decline of its two main characters.