Tom Grieve

It’s that time of year again, the couple of months of never ending red carpets and industry debate we fondly refer to as the awards season.

This pitch black comedy follows loved-up couple, Chris and Tina, as they set off on their first holiday together. Tina is desperate to escape her sheltered life with her meddling mother, and Chris can’t wait to share the delights of a caravanning holiday.

Sheffield’s Reel Steel Cult Weekender returns to the lush surrounds of the historic Abbeydale Picture House for three days of action, justice-dealing cyborgs and Studio Ghibli — including rare 35mm screenings.

South Korean director Lee Chang Dong delivers a brilliantly executed, abstract but intellectually stimulating portrait of working class frustrations and contemporary alienation.

The Village Screen pop-up cinema will be transforming Victoria Baths into a charming, candlelit cinema this February.

The first feature film produced by George Harrison, who supplied incidental music – features art student Malcolm (John Hurt), expelled from Oldham Art School, at war with ‘the Eunarchy’ of social conformists and sexual timidity.

Detective Mike Hammer takes on thugs and atomic secrets in this masterful Mickey Spillane adaptation.

A queer coming-of-age film set over the course of one hot Chicago summer, the laidback Princess Cyd follows teenager Cydney’s (Jessie Pinnick) extended visit with her novelist aunt, Miranda (Rebecca Spence).

Set in the loose confines of a Chicago black box theatre, graduate student Holly (Josephine Decker) writes and directs an adaptation of one of her favourite childhood novels in this feature film from Stephen Cone.

Bigger Than Life and Research in Arts and Humanities at Manchester Met present the first UK retrospective of the films of American independent film director Stephen Cone, at No. 70, Oxford Road this February.

When a new case uncovers traumas from a past undercover operation, an LAPD detective is forced to face her personal and professional demons.

The first female director to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival, Margarethe von Trotta is to thank for some of the most trailblazing films of the past five decades.