“Who was the real Charlie Chaplin?” It’s a simple enough question with an...
Movies | 17 02 2022
Dog isn’t the movie you think it is. From its poster and tagline (“A filthy...
Movies | 16 02 2022
Petrov’s Flu is the first film made by Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov...
Movies | 14 02 2022
This is a break-up romcom, in the Forgetting Sarah Marshall vein: one that...
Movies | 11 02 2022
Back in 2011, in a commercial made for the Japanese market but which has since...
The wedding planner meets a wedding crasher; it feels like the big studio...
Movies | 10 02 2022
After the quietly sweeping Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi has weaved another...
Movies | 08 02 2022
Refugee stories have a tragic, crushing universality about them: dank...
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...
A softly spoken gorilla sings an impassioned cover of Coldplay’s EDM banger ‘A...
Movies | 21 01 2022
If you need proof of how far the global balance has been tilted in favour of...
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