Dir: Agnieszka Holland, UK, 2019, 116 mins, English & welsh dialogue

James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard

A compelling period biopic set in 1933 honouring Welsh journalist Gareth Jones, who exposed the Holodomor, a famine caused by Stalin’s agricultural policies in which up to 10 million people died, only to be broadly discredited by his professional peers and murdered before his 30th birthday. A poignant and necessary story that reminds us of the danger of ‘fake news’ and its devastating consequences.

Dir: Robert Eggers, US, 2019, 109 mins

Willem Dafoe, Robert Pattinson, Valeriia Karaman

Two 19th century lighthouse keepers, stationed on a remote, storm-blasted New England island, fight the elements, the spirits and each other in this turbulent psychological thriller. Ephraim Winslow has taken a four-week post as an assistant to Tom Wake, a grizzled man who runs his lighthouse with a mix of brutal authoritarianism and drunken camaraderie. Tensions soon arises when Winslow is given a list of grunt tasks, none of which includes tending the light itself.