HCF Reviews
WEST SIDE STORY [2021]
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 156 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera It’s the summer of 1957 in the San Juan Hill neighborhood on New York’s Upper West Side. The area is being demolished, but […]
Musicals
HCF Reviews
BURST CITY [1982]: On Blu-ray Now
AKA BAKURETSU TOSHI JAPAN ON BLU-RAY NOW, from ARROW VIDEO RUNNING TIME: 119 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera In a dystopian future, a yakuza boss is planning the construction of a nuclear power plant […]
HCF Reviews
SYNCOPATION [1942]: On Dual Format 16th February
USA AVAILABLE ON DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY AND DVD: 16th February, from EUREKA ENTERTAINMENT RUNNING TIME: 88 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera Architect George Latimer and his daughter Kit live in New Orleans, the city of […]
Comedy
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE [2017]: On Blu-ray Now
UK AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD: NOW, from SECOND SIGHT RUNNING TIME: 108 mins/98 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Anna is half-way through her last year of school, and looking forward […]
Drugs
CLIMAX [2018]: On Blu-ray and DVD 11th February
Belgium/France/USA AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY AND DVD: 11th FEBRUARY, from ARROW FILMS RUNNING TIME: 96 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic In 1996, twenty French dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal for […]
Fantasy
MARY POPPINS RETURNS [2018]: In Cinemas Now
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 130 mins REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic It’s the time of the “Great Slump’ [the term for the Great Depression in the United Kingdom]. Recently widowed […]
HCF Reviews
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN [2017]: In Cinemas Now
USA IN CINEMAS NOW RUNNING TIME: 105 min REVIEWED BY: Dr Lenera, Official HCF Critic Young P. T. Barnum spends most of his childhood seperated from sweetheart Charity Hallet due to her father’s objection […]