MOVIE

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 month 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…

1 month 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…

1 month 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…

1 month 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,…

1 month 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,…

2 months 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…

2 months 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…

2 months ago

The Moment review – it’s not that easy being green

On June 7 2024 Charli XCX unleashed a monster. Green, mean and only 41:23 minutes long, ​‘brat’ wasn’t just an album – it…

2 months ago

What Wasteman shows us about the reality of…

Director Cal McMau spent 10 years doing research, mainly via watching phone-captured footage smuggled out of prison and uploaded to YouTube,…

2 months ago