By Daryl Bär Struggling in a world he finds difficult to comprehend, teenage maths prodigy Nathan (Asa Butterfield) finds comfort in numbers but struggles building relationships with others, not least his mother (played by the sublime Sally Hawkins). Finding guidance in the most unlikely of tutors, Nathan’s gifts take him to

By Maahin Akhlaque. Director Morgan Matthews uses the basis of one of his successful documentaries, Beautiful Young Minds as the backdrop of X+Y, his first feature film. In it, Nathan (Asa Butterfield) trains to compete in the International Mathematics Olympiad, under the training of a former maths-wiz, played by Rafe Spall. Diagnosed

By Ben Hooper. A delightful, but slight, children’s animation. Wolfy (or Loulou, L'Incroyable Secret in its original French) tells the tale of the titular wolf and his bunny buddy Tom travelling from their cosy forest home to Wolfenberg in a bid to find Wolfy’s long-lost mother. Once there, their disparate heritages force

By Daryl Bär For Shirin being part of a Persian family isn’t easy. Being unable to come out to them or explain her recent split with girlfriend Maxine (Rebecca Henderson), life becomes a long series of dramas, self-deprecation and drunken fumbling. The transition of Shirin (writer/ director/ actor Desiree Arkhavan) through