MOVIE

Fallen Star: In Praise of The Man Who Fell To…

From there, he goes into seclusion in the dry Southwestern landscapes that likely remind him most of home, inadvertently retreating…

2 days ago

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…

When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more…

5 days ago

Arco review – primary-colour, major-key…

“What if rainbows were people from the future travelling in time?” is the sort of tagline that will make many…

1 week ago

Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…

Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness…

2 weeks ago

How To Make A Killing review – social satire with…

Modern celebrities are a little like social media algorithms. Express an interest in something once, and you’ll be inundated with it…

2 weeks ago

If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…

Forty years on, the film is often branded ​‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not…

2 weeks ago

Sound Of Falling review – a complex puzzle box…

The old adage ‘History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme’ lies at the heart of Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling,…

3 weeks ago

Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film

Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât,…

3 weeks ago

Diving into the SXSW film line-up

In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps…

4 weeks ago

Amanda Seyfried: ‘This movie has changed me’

Amanda Seyfried is unwrapping a magic set she just purchased from Hamleys as I walk into a hotel room in London to interview…

4 weeks ago