Here, in alphabetical order, are the films about which we’re most excited this year, but haven’t yet seen. So it doesn’t include the likes of The Falling, Carol Morley’s latest, nor the Joshua Oppenheimer’s excellent The Look of Silence, Roy Andersson’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Contemplating Existence or Noah Baumbach’s While We’re Young, which had festival premieres last year and are due to be released this. [caption id="attachment_11905" align="alignleft" width="300"]

Dhallywood is a wild cinematic genre overflowing with noble heroes, epic danger, and ludicrous levels of glitz and glam. Thrilling stories and legendary romances have been told through Bengali cinema since 1956, with some 100 Dhallywood movies released every year. Sarker Protick takes us onto the sets and into the studios for an intimate look at the campiest films imaginable in his series Love Me or Kill Me. The industry is the Bangladeshi cousin to India’s more well-known (and well-funded) Bollywood, but with a particularly flamboyan...

STEPHEN HAWKING would not be as famous as he is today if he was not so ill. As impressive as his accomplishments would have been from an able-bodied person, they are all the more astounding from someone with motor neurone disease (MND). There is something almost mythical about the image of such a far-reaching mind trapped in an immobile body. It would be absurd, though, to suggest that Hawking’s disability was the most significant thing about him, or that the most significant thing about his disability was how irritable it made his ex-wife, Jane. But those are the suggestions at the heart of James Marsh’s soapy new biopic, “The Theory Of Everything”. Never mind black holes or the Big Bang: in this telling of the Hawking story, what really matters is that when he scooted around the si...