As one might expect for this time of year, many of the films currently on release have seasonal overtones, in particular A Christmas Star (G), a charming film which deals with a tranquil Irish village that comes under threat from an unscrupulous property developer. A young girl called Noelle, who was born under a Christmas…
Desperate efforts of a teacher to keep her house
The Lesson (15A)
Badfellas in crime-ridden Boston in the seventies
Black Mass (15A)
Steve McQueen and his impossible racing dream
The Man and Le Mans (12A)
Portrait of the artist as a young (and old) man
Listen to me Marlon (15A)
Saoirse Ronan comes of age in international romance
Brooklyn (15A)
The struggle for black power against bigoted regime
The Black Panthers (PG)
Oliver Twist meets Harry Potter in magical mystery tour
Pan (PG)
When women were treated as second-class citizens
Suffragette (12A)
A film about cops and robbers, but which is which?
Sicario (15A)

Aubrey Malone