Listen to me Marlon (15A)
Category: Film
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)
Living in the grip of terror by a killer on the run
Captive (12A)
Drama, comedy and horror on your screens
Spare a thought for the recently deceased director Wes Craven. Almost single-handedly he pioneered the comedy/horror mini-genre. M. Night Shyamalan lends his talents to the hybrid in The Visit, a chilling tale of two children who go to on a trip to their psychologically-unhinged grandparents on a remote American farm. I would have been out of…
When a man tries to play God and it all goes wrong
Irrational Man (15A)
Plenty of quality offerings now that summer’s over
There are a mixed bag of releases on show at the moment, as often happens as the ‘silly season’ grinds to a halt and the autumn schedule kicks in with a vengeance. American Ultra is one of those comedies about lazy people who don’t realise they contain superpowers within themselves. It’s only when the timid…

Aubrey Malone