Author: Stephen Dalton

Chinese writer-director Michelle Zhou draws on events from her own life in her elegantly filmed, emotionally charged, queer coming-out drama ‘Big Little Things’.

Director Theo Rollason’s found-footage documentary ‘Queer Edward II’ paints an intimate, absorbing, surprisingly timely portrait of radical gay film-maker Derek Jarman during a stormy political period.

Director Alex Gibney’s marathon documentary portrait of controversial billionaire business tycoon Elon Musk is rich in gossipy detail but short on surprises.

Real-life couple Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem play troubled screen spouses in ‘Bunker’, a glossy-looking, socially conscious psychological thriller from ‘The Father’ writer-director Florian Zeller.

Veteran German director Wim Wenders explores the work of prize-winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in his finely crafted 3D documentary ‘From Inside Out’, a beautiful if slightly opaque love letter from one maestro of deluxe minimalism to another,