Wendy Ide

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

Carey Mulligan at her most magnetic plays one half of an estranged folk duo booked by lonely superfan Tim Key in what deserves to be this summer’s breakout hit The Ballad of Wallis Island (100 mins, 12A) Directed by James Griffiths; starring Tim Key, Tom Basden and Carey MulliganFor a film about grief, regrets, lost love and a deep, cavernous loneliness, The Ballad of Wallis Island delivers a whole lot of laughs.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Wendy Ide

The writer/directors filmed in a residential shelter for mothers near Liege Source: Cannes International Film Festival Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne  France. 2025. 105mins In a residential shelter for young mothers in Liege, Belgium, five girls grapple with the challenges of parenting a newborn, from the basics of bath time and feeding routines to the knotty legacies of their own troubled backgrounds.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

Can breathtaking action sequences save the day as Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt strives to protect the world from malevolent AI in Mission: Impossible’s franchise climax? So here we are. Nearly 30 years after the first Mission: Impossible film introduced us to maverick agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), with his unorthodox techniques and aversion to shirts, we finally embark on what is rumoured to be the last picture in the series.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Wendy Ide

Rising French star Nadia Tereszkiewicz also stars in this surrealist Un Certain Regard premiere Source: Cannes International Film Festival Dir: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis. Italy/USA. 2025. 107mins In the late 19th century, American showman ‘Buffalo Bill’ Cody (John C. Reilly, bewhiskered and brash) is touring Italy with his Wild West show.

2 weeks ago | screendaily.com | Wendy Ide

The Spanish director continues to mine her own history for this affecting tale of a filmmaker in the making Source: Cannes International Film Festival Dir/scr: Carla Simon. Spain/Germany. 2025. 112 mins. Orphaned at a young age and raised by her mother’s family in Barcelona, 18-year-old Marina (Llucia Garcia) has never met her father’s extended clan in the city of Vigo, in Galicia. But to apply for a scholarship to study cinema, she needs an official form signed by her grandparents.