“My job is protecting people,” responds Enid, in the new British thriller Censor, when her parents ask her if she has seen “anything good” at work lately. Her job is in the title: in Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut film, Niamh Algar plays a solemnly efficient British movie censor, snipping scenes of grotesque violence from horror movies at the height of the 80s “video nasties” moral panic. Enid sincerely believes that she is protecting vulnerable audiences from scenes of excessive physical and sexual violence, thus stopping copycat criminals or otherwise “influencing” social mores in the wrong direc ..read more

The Courier is a slow-burning but intriguing espionage thriller with a strong flavour of John le Carré. It is based on the true story of Oleg Penkovsky, a high-ranking Soviet officer, and his surprising partnership with British businessman Greville Wynne, who helped him to smuggle top-secret information about nuclear missiles in Cuba to the British and Americans. Benedict Cumberbatch excels as Wynne, a charming but seedy salesman with a Terry-Thomas moustache and a dress sense resembling that of old Grandstand presenter Frank Bough. It is the early 60s and Wynne is relatively happily married t ..read more

In this earnest real-life drama about the horrors of industrial pollution in coastal Japan, Johnny Depp offers a performance of bone-weary sadness. It is probably the best he has been for years. As hard-drinking photojournalist W Eugene Smith – complete with grey beard and liver-spotted face – he finally has a screen role where he’s not chewing up enough scenery to cause indigestion. Minamata is a heart-on-its-sleeve story of corporate malfeasance and the journalists who revealed it to the world. In 1971, Smith, who’d already had a storied career as a war reporter, joins forces with young Japa ..read more

Jed Rothstein’s simultaneously dazzling and deficient documentary, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, examines not just the rise and fall of the famously overvalued co-working operation, but also the messianic qualities of its co-founder, Adam Neumann. From the moment he arrived in Brooklyn in 2008, Neumann made an impression as a charismatic, long-haired impresario who wanted – as we see him say repeatedly – to change the world. When he set up WeWork in 2010, people quickly began to believe he had.   He may just have been leasing buildings an ..read more

Turn your dials to 108.9, Kurupt FM are in the house. Brentford’s biggest (well, only) pirate garage radio station – the subject of Bafta-winning BBC mockumentary People Just Do Nothing – is back. Three years after the fifth and seemingly final season drew to a close, with Kurupt FM’s MC Grindah heading off to suburban Essex, People Just Do Nothing: Big In Japan arrives to mark the gang’s first cinema outing.  From Dad’s Army to Absolutely Fabulous, comedy history is littered with TV shows that failed as films. “We were concerned about that,” admits co-creator Allan “Seapa” Mustafa, who p ..read more

Jed Rothstein’s simultaneously dazzling and deficient documentary, WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, examines not just the rise and fall of the famously overvalued co-working operation, but also the messianic qualities of its co-founder, Adam Neumann. From the moment he arrived in Brooklyn in 2008, Neumann made an impression as a charismatic, long-haired impresario who wanted – as we see him say repeatedly – to change the world. When he set up WeWork in 2010, people quickly began to believe he had.   He may just have been leasing buildings an ..read more

It will come as no surprise to anyone that scratched their heads while watching Tenet that its star John David Washington was similarly confused. In fact, he generally is, when it comes to his work. “Honestly, the way I work, I never understand any of the scripts I work on at first sight,” he says. “Or I have this false sense of understanding. I never feel like I understand the movie until maybe a year later, or when the movie comes out.” We’re meeting at the Locarno Film Festival where his new film, Beckett, was the opening film before its release on Netflix this week. He plays an American to ..read more

If you’re a horror fan theres a new feature film to check out on Netflix, and it is one to watch from behind a pillow. But whats the story and how do you watch it? Here’s everything you need to know. WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW What is Aftermath? Aftermath follows a young couple who move into a new home after a period of marital problems. But their new life is not what it seems, and unexpected and unexplained events keep happening. The Netflix synopsis says: “Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal and moves into their dream home. But disturbing events reveal the house’s trou ..read more

Based on JoJo Moyes’ romantic novel, The Last Letter From Your Lover is a would-be tearjerker about a love affair cut short in murky circumstances.  Felicity Jones plays Ellie Haworth, an irreverent, self-obsessed reporter. She stumbles on the story of the romance more than 50 years before between 60s socialite Jennifer Stirling (Shailene Woodley) and financial journalist Anthony O’Hare (Callum Turner).   Details of the affair are contained in letters in her newspaper’s archives. As she pieces together what happened to the lovers, she is beginning an affair o ..read more

With all the adaptations of novels, short stories and magazine articles out there, the one source you might not expect a feature film to derive from is a Twitter thread. But that’s precisely the origin of Janiczka Bravo’s radioactively coloured backlit road trip through Florida, a movie featuring two strippers, some enigmatic driving companions and a wobbly, unsettling tone that volleys between lightly comic and horrifying. Zola is a real young woman, A’Ziah King, who in 2015 started a gargantuan viral tweet thread which began with a photo and a phrase which is now a gold-standard meme format ..read more