The Kid With a Bike
(Artificial Eye, cert 12, Blu-ray/DVD)
A boy on a bike looks for the dad who’d rather he didn’t. De Sica’s 1948 classic Bicycle Thieves is in there somewhere but you don’t need to be a buff to empathise with this beautifully observed drama by the Dardenne brothers.
Wild Bill
(Universal, cert 15, Blu-ray/DVD)
For his directorial debut Dexter Fletcher reaches for an old standby, the lag-going-straight story, puts a western spin on it and casts Charlies Creed-Miles as his avenging Clint Eastwood. It’s set in the East End, as you might expect, and it’s blindingly good, which you might not.
Kiss Me
(TLA, cert 15, DVD)
Wallander-watchers and Bergman fans will spot familiar faces fleshing out this big hit from this year’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, a Swedish drama about a woman falling for her dad’s new woman’s daughter (got that?). Fraught, fragrant fare.
Wonderful London
(BFI, cert E, DVD)
Twelve silent documentary shorts from the Twenties, containing “pictorial sidelights on the world’s greatest city”, proving that boosterism didn’t start with Boris Johnson. Utterly fascinating in an “ooh, look, there’s Camden Lock” way.
