Hollywood is so obsessed with origin stories that even stories that weren’t...
Movies | 07 02 2022
Though centred on a teenager seemingly content to fade into the background...
Movies | 04 02 2022
In one of many brilliant scenes in The Souvenir Part II, a quiet drama is...
With Moonfall, you can practically imagine the pitch meeting that willed it...
Movies | 03 02 2022
Given the nature of its bone-breaking, ball-busting brand of comedy, the...
Movies | 02 02 2022
There’s a lot to be said about the extraordinary world of televangelism, and...
Movies | 31 01 2022
Sean Penn’s latest directing gig gives his daughter, Dylan Penn, a solid...
Movies | 24 01 2022
Using a decaying house as a visual metaphor in horror movies isn’t new, but in...
If you need proof of how far the global balance has been tilted in favour of...
Movies | 21 01 2022
A softly spoken gorilla sings an impassioned cover of Coldplay’s EDM banger ‘A...
Parallel Mothers is a magic trick courtesy of Pedro Almodóvar. Built on a...
From first-time writer-director Fran Kranz (yes, he of The Cabin In The Woods...
No-one can accuse Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige of lacking ambition....
If Denzel Washington’s last directorial outing Fences was an Academy...
Movies | 20 01 2022
Belfast, Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical take on growing up in...
For Guillermo del Toro fans who have followed the monster-obsessed auteur...
Movies | 17 01 2022
A loosely formed documentary about a milk cow is not the obvious follow-up to...
Movies | 14 01 2022
Memoria begins with a bang. A literal one. A short, sharp explosion that wakes...
“How well do you remember the original?” That’s a question posed by the new...
Movies | 12 01 2022
Imagine the legendary Copacabana Steadicam shot from GoodFellas if, instead of...
Movies | 07 01 2022
Producer and star Jessica Chastain and director Simon Kinberg team up here to...
Movies | 06 01 2022
A UK-German co-production which avoids that bland Euro-pudding quality,...
When it comes to portraying troubled geniuses on screen, Benedict Cumberbatch...
Movies | 01 01 2022
“You’re a very powerful feeling,” one character tells another towards the end...
Movies | 30 12 2021
It’s snowing, one character observes in The Humans, gazing through a murky...
Movies | 28 12 2021
Object sexuality, the romantic attraction to inanimate objects, is hardly the...
Movies | 22 12 2021
The legacy of 1999’s The Matrix endures and evolves. It has been exalted,...
Movies | 21 12 2021
Mark Cousins is a bridge between filmmaking and film criticism. Whereas most...
Let's go back for a moment to a scene in Spider-Man: Far From Home. No, not...
Movies | 15 12 2021