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The Wizard Of The Kremlin - Film Review - Eye For Film Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vla...

A young political advisor rises to power after attaching himself to Vladimir Putin in The Wizard Of The Kremlin www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-w... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Zen And Sword - Film Review - Eye For Film An adaptation of Yoshikawa Eiji's biography of Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman and author of the Book Of Five Rings, who fights his way through many opponents while developing his philosophy of swordsmans...

The story of Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman and author of the Book Of Five Rings, is told across the five films that make up Zen And Sword www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/zen-a... #filmsky 🎬

Barbara Forever - Film Review - Eye For Film An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

"What emerges over the course of O’Connor’s Barbara Forever is not a saintly monument but a vibrant, difficult, funny, and unsentimental person" #Sundance #Berlinale2026 #TIDF2026 #BFIFlare www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/barba...

Headshot of Peter Jackson, a middleaged man with greying mid-length hair, moustache and beard

Peter Jackson to receive Honorary Palme d'Or www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-03... #Cannes #FilmSky🎬

An elderly man looks worriedly down at an elderly woman

Lance Hammer, Tom Courtenay, Juliette Binoche & Anna Calder-Marshall on "searching for authenticity" in Queen At Sea www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #Berlinale2026 #Berlinale #FilmSky🎬

Unidentified - Film Review - Eye For Film A grieving mother, fueled by her passion for true crime, seeks answers when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert and the police investigation stalls.

A police admin assistant asked to help out when a teenage girl is found dead in the desert becomes obsessed with the case in Unidentified www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/unide... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Splitsville - Film Review - Eye For Film Splitsville picks up with Ashley asking for a divorce, watching as the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness ...

This year's Glasgow Film Festival surprise film is Splitsville www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/split... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

A still from the film Jailbroken. In a prison cell, a muscular white man holds a younger Asian man by the throat while speaking on a mobile phone.

"This is all so tight and it just gets tighter as the film goes on...in terms of how that actually works or not, at the end of the day, that's going to be down to the actors" - Raymond Friel on writing Jailbroken www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #GFF26 #Frightfest

The Dutchman - Film Review - Eye For Film A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a sexualised game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman on a subway that leads to a violen...

A Black man is placed in a vulnerable position when approached on the underground by a seductive white woman in Andre Gaines' reimagining of Amiri Baraka's play, The Dutchman www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-d... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Dolly - Film Review - Eye For Film A young woman fights for survival after being abducted by a deranged, monster-like figure who wants to raise her as a child.

This week UK horror fans will have the chance to wander deep into the woods and meet Dolly. Check out our review from last year, and scroll down it to our interview with director Rod Blackhurst www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/dolly... #filmsky 🎬

A still from the film Psalms Of The People. A bespectacled white man in a round woollen hat sits at the base on a tree on a sunny day, playing a keyboard instrument, with a microphone beside him.

"Culture is something that's given to us from our parents...that applies to Gaelic psalms and the culture that goes with them, but also to many things in life you can't take for granted" - Jack Archer on Psalms Of The People (aka Sailm Nan Daoine) www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #GFF26 #filmsky

Filipiñana - Film Review - Eye For Film Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surf...

In Filipiñana "sociopolitics spritzes delicately, like the water from the club's sprinklers, over the whole affair" www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/filip... #Sundance2026 #Berlinale2026 #FilmSky🎬

OBEX - Film Review - Eye For Film Conor Marsh lives a secluded life with his dog, Sandy, until one day he begins playing OBEX, a new, state-of-the-art computer game. When Sandy goes missing, the line between reality and game blurs and...

A lonely man is forced to venture inside a computer game to save his kidnapped dog in Obex www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/obex-... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬🐕

A still from the film Dragonfly. A white woman and a white American bulldog share a sofa.

Dragonfly star Dixie has been named BFI Best in the World at the Fido awards for cinematic canine excellence www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-03... #filmsky 🎬🏆🐕

Molly Vs The Machines still

It's time for our weekly Stay-at-Home Seven round-up of films to catch at home www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #StayAtHome7 #FilmSky🎬

Two men riding past a dead horse

Thomas M Wright, Deborah Mailman, Warwick Thornton and Erroll Shand at the Berlinale photocall

'My job as a filmmaker is to retell history through cinema to tell the truth of what actually happened' Warwick Thornton chats about survivors and storytelling in Wolfram www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #Berlinale #Berlinale2026 #FilmSky🎬

Babystar - Film Review - Eye For Film A family vlogger's teenage daughter discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity.

The daughter of lifestyle vloggers discovers that her parents plan to have another child and begins to question the cost of her lifelong celebrity, in Babystar www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/babys... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie - Film Review - Eye For Film When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

Best friends trying to get a gig accidentally travel back to 2008 in Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/nirva... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬 #Toronto

Narciso - Film Review - Eye For Film Paraguay, 1958. The charismatic Narciso returns from Buenos Aires with rock ’n’ roll in his veins. Under the suffocating military regime, he becomes a music sensation and a symbol of freedom. But then...

"What makes Narciso striking is the way it acquires a contemporary charge without insisting on it" - www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/narci... #Berlinale #Berlinale2026 #FilmSky🎬

Portait shot of Kai Stänicke, a young man smiling in a brown jumper

A young man looks very serious. He is staring through a fishing net that is hanging up

'It's a journey to find himself'
Kai Stänicke on construction, identity & memory in Trial Of Hein www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #Berlinale2026 #Berlinale #FilmSky🎬

A still from the film Sinners. Two Black men, played by the same person, stand side by side.

Sinners and One Battle After Another are among the winners of this year's Golden Eddie awards www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-02... #filmsky 🎬🏆

Wolfram - Film Review - Eye For Film A couple of kids try to find their mother in a land full of colonial outlaws and danger.

"Thornton demands a certain level of patience from the audience as the narratives of Wolfram mosey along, but his control of mood is a major asset" - www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/wolfr... #Berlinale2026 #Berlinale #FilmSky🎬

You're right, we should (and will) note he has dual citizenship.

A young man smiling in Nino

Pauline Loquès in a portrait shot she is wearing a leathr jacket and black top with white stripes - by Marie Rouge

Seeking light out of darkness - Pauline Loquès on the personal tragedy that inspired her first feature Nino www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... which has its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival tonight #GFF26 #FilmSky🎬

Jim Carrey accepts Cesar

Carine Tardieu accepts Cesar

Stars and stripes flutters over the Césars, plus an unexpected Best Film Winner as French 'Oscars' announced www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-02... #Cesars2026 #Cesars

A still from the film Being Bo Widerberg. A thin, bespectacled white man sits in a sunny window above an urban street, holding a roll of film and stretching it out to peer at individual frames.

"It's interesting material to work with because it's very human" - Jon Asp on making documentary Being Bo Widerberg www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2026... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Árru - Film Review - Eye For Film Sámi reindeer herder Maia fights to protect her ancestral lands from a looming mining project.

"Gaup Beaska is an accomplished yoiker, so perfectly cast as Maia, the primal pull of this often ululating music matched by lyrics that speak of her character's connection to her Sámi culture" in Árru www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/arru-... #Berlinale #Berlinale2026 #FilmSky🎬

Molly Vs The Machines - Film Review - Eye For Film The tragic story behind a teenager driven to take her life by machines that were built to control people for profit.

Documentary Molly Vs The Machines explores the circumstances surrounding a teenager's death and the issues involved in young people's use of social media www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/molly... #GFF26 #filmsky 🎬

Trial Of Hein - Film Review - Eye For Film A man returns to his island village after 14 years and finds himself facing a trial to decide if he is really who he claims to be.

What gives Trial Of Hein "the edge is the clever way he shifts the focus so that the narrative becomes less about the community than Hein himself" - www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/trial... #Berlinale #Berlinale2026 #FilmSky🎬

Black and white portrait shot of Park Chan-wook

South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook has been named president of the competition jury for the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2026-02... #Cannes2026 #FilmSky🎬