TERI BAATON MEIN AISA ULJHA JIYA Cert PG 144 mins BBFC advice: Contains mild sex references, language, violence, threat, scenes of smoking Forbes published an article in March of this year reporting research that proved it is possible to fall in love with an AI system. Therefore, Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah's Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya may not be as far-fetched as it seems. However, the question arises of whether a robot can reciprocate such emotions. This conundrum is the essence of the movie, which stars Shahid Kapoor as Aryan, a high-level robotics engine ..read more

  ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH Cert 15 97 mins BBFC advice: Contains strong bloody violence, injury detail, horror, language, sex Who knew that the Irish have mystical songs that can cast evil spells? Well, if they do or don't, this was the unusual premise of All You Need Is Death, a low-budget horror with a decent kick. It is the concept of writer, producer and director Paul Duane and stars Simone Collins and Charlie Maher. They play Anna, a young singer, and Aleks, her foreign boyfriend, who traverse the country searching for folk tunes that nobody has previously recorded. I groaned in ..read more

  JEE VE SOHNEYA JEE Cert 12A 141 mins BBFC advice: Contains moderate violence The fear and loathing between Indians and Pakistanis is hard to grasp thousands of miles away in England. Jee Ve Sohnye Jee suggests that love (and maybe being in England?) can conquer the conditioned hostility, although I suspect some will find its story too twee. It stars Pakistani actor Imran Abbas as Ali, a young man desperate to see the world and even start his own travel company. However, his father's business has fallen on hard times, and the family has set up a potential marriage that will iron thing ..read more

  BRAMAYUGAM Cert 15 140 mins BBFC advice: Contains strong violence, bloody images Oh, this is good. A black and white thriller that will leave audiences needing to sleep with the lights on. Bramayugam is set in the 17th century and centres on Thevan (Arjun Ashokan), an escapee from the Portuguese slave trade. He runs through a thick forest when he falls upon a mansion and hopes for respite, shelter, and food. He is met by the master (Mammootty), who is eating heartily and asks him to be his guest in return for a Malayalam song. At first, it appears that he is just an arrogant old ..read more

  SWEDE CAROLINE Cert 15 97 mins BBFC advice: Contains strong language, sex references, bloody violence One of my first assignments as a junior reporter was to file vegetable competition results from the annual Birmingham Show. It opened my eyes because I had no concept of the varieties of carrots, parsnips, potatoes and, of course, marrows. There were prizes for best-presented veg but the big plaudits went to the whoppers, proving that size really does matter. The rivalry among those producing corking crops is the unlikely backdrop for Finn Bruce & Brook Driver's Swede C ..read more

  BEYOND THE RAGING SEA Cert PG 70 mins BBFC advice: Contains mild threat, upsetting scenes, language Self-indulgence on a reckless scale or a genuine attempt to draw attention to the plight of the refugees who risk their lives crossing seas to escape persecution? I was torn after watching Beyond The Raging Sea - the story of extreme athletes Omar Nour and Omar Samra. Marco Orsini's documentary is about their participation in the Talisker Atlantic Challenge - a 3,000-mile race across the Atlantic in a rowing boat without assistance. Their training took two years and presumably in ..read more

  BAGHEAD Cert 15 95 mins BBFC advice: Contains strong threat, horror I have seen enough haunted house horror films to last me a lifetime, so I groaned inwardly at the prospect of another one. However, Baghead has enough original elements to make it worthwhile - and it clearly had an impact at the box office, where it has taken millions. Director Alberto Corredor's coup was being able to count Peter Mullan among its cast. The gruff-voiced Scot plays the cursed owner of a former Berlin pub with a shape-shifting creature in its basement. Baghead can bring back the dead for only two ..read more

  IF ONLY I COULD HIBERNATE (BAAVGAI BOLOHSON) Cert TBA 96 mins BBFC advice: TBA A heart-wrenching and heroic story unfolds against the backdrop of abject poverty, freezing cold, and toxic air pollution in If Only I Could Hibernate. Zoljargal Purevdash's film, the most celebrated ever to emerge from Mongolia, explores the struggles of those living in its capital, Ulaanbaatar. It centres on a family in its Yurt district, where people live in large tents. They only survive winter temperatures of minus 35C by burning coal, wood, or cardboard. Despite facing these conditions with his moth ..read more

  GASSED UP Cert 15 102 mins BBFC advice: Contains very strong language, strong violence, threat, sexual threat, drug misuse Another month and another gritty London street thriller about young people turning to crime as the only way out of a vicious circle. George Amponsah's Gassed Up alights upon five pals who snatch mobile phones to order. They all speak this ghastly urban English, referring to themselves as bruv, cuz and fam, even though they prove they would let each other down without thinking about it. The plot is seen through the eyes of Ash (Stephen Odubola), a young man ..read more

  EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: JOHN SINGER SARGENT 2024 Cert PG 93 mins BBFC advice: Contains infrequent mild nudity I was astonished. John Singer Sargent's portrait subjects looked as if they could have been painted in the 2020s. The young women had complexions that were so fresh and hair that were so modern, yet they lived around the turn of the 20th century. I was especially agog at the image of Madame Ramón Subercaseaux, one of the acclaimed artist's many wealthy subjects. Only her surroundings gave a modest clue to the date of her sitting. According to one contributor to David Bickerst ..read more