Inside the North West Film Clubs building a…
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on their ability to curate interesting
Chihiro Amano: ‘It was like I hit a wall in all…
Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges preconceived notions of what Japanese
State of Statelessness review – an intimate…
This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with remarkable restraint. State of Statelessness is
Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for…
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in the run-up to the new
Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ira Sachs’ best film…
It’s only a matter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: a leisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd Avenue on the Lower East
It’s a Wrap: 2025 in Film
Emily Maskell Five personal favourite films of 2025 Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor) April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) On Falling (Laura Carreira)
A House of Dynamite review – a skilful and timely…
Now and then it occurs to me that the future of my very existence, as well as that of the rest of our global population,
Tron: Ares review – plays like a vapid,…
“The ’80s,” gasps Jared Leto (the eponymous Ares) with something approaching the human emotion of reverence. “Classic,” he says during a sequence paying extended homage to
Him review – not quite a touchdown
An ambitious college football player finds himself drawn into a cult in Justin Tipping’s sports horror. Justin Tipping’s Him wants to be a lot of things
The Smashing Machine review – a moving portrait…
Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The Smashing Machine was announced, but