This show focuses on family, moving from the experimental parenting of Captain Fantastic to the criminal brothers of Hell Or High Water and the ghostly relatives of Kubo and the Two Strings. … [Read more...]

Today’s show concentrates on the last remnants of the summer blockbuster season, with reviews of Suicide Squad, Finding Dory, Star Trek Beyond and Pete’s Dragon. … [Read more...]

Today's show starts up high before ending in hand to hand combat at street level, with reviews of Steven Spielberg's The BFG, Danish drama The Commune and Jason Bourne, the fifth film in the down and dirty spy franchise. Plus we talk to Olivier Stockman, owner of Sands Films Costumes: designers, dyers, sewers and dressers to the some of the best … [Read more...]

This edition of Bums On Seats considers both beauty, the afterlife and a bundle of things in between, as we review new cinema releases The Neon Demon, Maggie's Plan, The Legend of Tarzan and Ghostbusters. Plus we talk to academic Henry K Miller about the poet filmmaker Humphrey Jennings, the first of a series of articles on how documentary and art … [Read more...]

We start in the stars and ends at the bottom of a bottle of bubbly, with reviews of Independence Day: Resurgence, Adult Life Skills, Elvis and Nixon and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. Plus we talk to filmmakers Lucy Campbell and Nat Luurtsema about their short film variations on a theme of William Shakespeare, created for Film London's … [Read more...]

Bums on Seats returns with a review of the colourful LA noir The Nice Guys and the baroque fantasy of The Tale of Tales. Plus we commemorate the first full year of Reel Women screenings at the Arts Picturehouse, with not just an interview with its founders, but also a look into the dire state of affairs for female filmmakers with Corrina Antrobus … [Read more...]

Today's show is rebelling against whatever it is you've got, with reviews of the punk rockers trying to survive Green Room, the troublesome teenagers of Mustang and the girl crazed college kids of Everybody Wants Some. Plus we've a birthday, looking at the growth of community cinema as Saffron Screen turns 10, and we catch up with director Joanna … [Read more...]