Hell Or High Water
Members’ Rating: 86% A divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme to save their family’s ranch in West Texas. USA, 2016, David Mackenzie. Crime/Drama/Thriller, 1hr 32mins (15)
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Hotel Salvation
Members’ Rating: 63% – this film was this season’s Members’ Choice As a father sense his impending death, he makes his son take him to the ghats of Varanasi. While the son is waiting he faces a dilemma as his...
Fire At Sea
Members’ Rating: 67% Focussing on twelve-year-old local Samuele, this mysterious and moving film contrasts the everyday lives of the inhabitants of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, with the desperate existence of the thousands of refugees landing on its shores. Italy/France,...
Clash
Members’ Rating: 79% Set entirely in an eight-metre police truck, detainees from different political and social backgrounds are brought together during the turmoil that followed the ousting of Egyptian President Morsi. Egypt/France, 2016, Mohamed Diab. Drama/Thriller, 1hr 37mins (15)
The Red Turtle
Members’ Rating: 73% A massive sea turtle repeatedly thwarts a stranded man’s attempts to leave a desert island in this stunning wordless fable. France/Belgium/Japan, 2016, Michael Dudok de Wit. Animation/Fantasy, 1hr 20mins (PG)
Lady Macbeth
Members’ Rating: 73% Set in 19th-Century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage to a middle-aged man enters into an affair with a worker on her estate. UK, 2016, William Oldroyd. Drama, 1hr 29mins (15)
Things To Come
Members’ Rating: 62% A philosophy teacher soldiers on through her mother’s death, getting fired from her job, and dealing with a cheating husband. France/Germany, 2016, Mia Hansen-Løve. Drama, 1hr 42mins (12A)
Our Little Sister
Members’ Rating: 81% A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother’s home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half-sister. Japan, 2015, Hirokazu Kore-eda. Comedy/Drama, 2hrs 8mins (PG)
Blade Runner 2049
Members’ Rating: 74% After the events of the first film set in 2019, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a secret that could plunge what is left of society into chaos. He embarks on a search for Rick...
Manhattan
Members’ Rating: 69% – Classic Movie The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend’s mistress. USA, 1979, Woody Allen. Comedy/Drama/Romance, 1hr 36mins (15)
