The best Hayley Squires’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hayley Squires’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Hayley Squires.
Disappointment Blvd.
6.7/10
An intimate, decades-spanning portrait of one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time.
I, Daniel Blake
7.8/10
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
In Fabric
6.2/10
A haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store, following the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
6.8/10
The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.
In the Earth
5.1/10
As a deadly virus ravages the world, Dr. Martin Lowery embarks on a mission to reach test site ATU327A, a research hub deep in the Arboreal Forest. The arduous journey, guided by park scout Alma, is set back by a nighttime attack that leaves the two bruised and shoeless. When they run into Zach, a man living off the grid, they gratefully accept his help. Zach’s intentions aren’t exactly what they seem, however, and a path out of the forest and into safety quickly fades as the line between myth and science blurs.
A Royal Night Out
6.5/10
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encounter romance and danger.
The Miniaturist
7/10
A woman moves to live with her new husband in 17th century Amsterdam, but soon discovers that not everything is what it seems.
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
7.2/10
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepares to release his final major film I, Daniel Blake.
Complicit
6.2/10
An MI5 officer's attempts to foil a possible terrorist plot are undermined by bureaucracy and moral dilemmas. Will he make the world a safer place or be complicit in making a tense situation even worse?
Happy New Year, Colin Burstead
6.4/10
Colin has rented a stately country home for his extended family’s New Year celebrations. He’s the centre of attention until his estranged brother David unexpectedly arrives, throwing the family dynamic far off orbit.
True Things
5.9/10
Q young woman living on the fringes of society becomes intoxicated by a stranger who overwhelms her quiet life.
Away
6.4/10
A story set in the north English seaside town of Blackpool and centered on two kindred spirits who form an unlikely friendship.
Polar Bear
8.8/10
Polar Bear pursues an act of violence as it ricochets through time. From Aaron as a young boy first encountering the bear, to ten years on, where his own rage finally explodes. Then over four more years on, a now young adult Aaron encounters Lea, both bound to and haunted by the same ghost of violence.
Blood Cells
7.1/10
A decade after a catastrophe destroyed his family and their farm, momentous news from home compels an exiled young man to embark upon an intense and surreal journey through the broken and beautiful margins of contemporary Britain.
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
This unique interactive film puts you on set with Ken Loach in production on his latest film, I, Daniel Blake. Throwing us into life on location and during pre-production, it enables you to change the course of your viewing experience by selecting inserts in which Loach and some of his key collaborators – past and present – give fascinating insights into his creative practices. (The version released on the Criterion Collection edition is only 38 minutes and doesn't include the interactive parts with interviews and illustrative scenes from previous Loach films.)
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
7.4/10
Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. Following his smash hit production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Benedict Andrews’ ‘thrilling revival’ (New York Times) stars Sienna Miller alongside, Jack O’Connell and Colm Meaney. On a steamy night in Mississippi, a Southern family gather at their cotton plantation to celebrate Big Daddy’s birthday. The scorching heat is almost as oppressive as the lies they tell. Brick and Maggie dance round the secrets and sexual tensions that threaten to destroy their marriage. With the future of the family at stake, which version of the truth is real – and which will win out?
