- December 3, 2025
Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn’t look at cinema too…
Jafar Panahi has had to navigate the most challenging set of circumstances in order to make films. Censored and persecuted by an authoritarian régime that
Christy review – this ain’t ringing no box office…
When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was serious about his craft, and
Pillion review – a refreshingly sexy and touching…
Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source material, retaining only a few crucial
The Carpenter’s Son review – FKA Twigs’ Mary is…
In the beginning there was nothing and then there was light. Or in the instance of The Carpenter’s Son, in the beginning there was the dogmatic
Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western
It is that Finnish word “that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as “a white-knuckled form of courage and
Rage and defiance in les banlieues – La Haine at…
The invisible loyalties between Vinz, Hubert and Saïd suggest that they are childhood friends, splintering in young adulthood because of tensions in the neighbourhood –
Predators review – one of the most valuable…
Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the journalist Chris Hansen, the 44-minute
Now You See Me: Now You Don’t review – new,…
Louis Leterrier’s unlikely 2013 hit, Now You See Me, opens with an instruction: “Come closer… Closer… The closer you are the less you’ll actually see” uttered
Predator: Badlands review – a strangely wholesome…
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s a textured sensuality to the
Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of…
The film’s title, renamed from the story’s original Save the Green Planet!, speaks to a central fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut. “Bugonia”
