Friday Jan 8 to Thursday Jan 14, 2016

"The Lacey women, wrote Irish novelist Colm Toibin in his 2009 book BROOKLYN, could do everything, 'except say out loud what it was they were thinking.' In John Crowley’s lovely film made from the novel, Saoirse Ronan ('Atonement') provides a master class in showing, not saying, what her character Eilis Lacey is thinking.

"Spotlight is a masterpiece. Director Tom McCarthy’s drama embraces both great cinema and even better journalism as it chronicles a Boston Globe investigative team’s real-life expose on child abuse by local priests and the Catholic Church cover-up that followed. Not only is it an amazingly crafted movie, it’s an important one as well.

"Eddie Redmayne goes deep in this biopic on the Danish painter who became a transgender activist.Nearly a century ago, Einar Wegener became a pioneer in gender-reassignment surgery. You can't take your eyes off Eddie Redmayne (Oscar winner - The Theory of Everything), who is flat-out fabulous as Einar.

“Every perfectly composed picture tells a story in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s transfixing take on the wuxia action genre, set in the 9th century. Shu Qi’s title killer is a princess, skilled at swordplay but capable of mercy. Abducted as a child by an exiled nun (Zhou Yun) and schooled in lethal justice, the princess must perform a vigilante act with serious family implications.