- November 24, 2025
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”
Guillermo del Toro: ‘The world breaks your heart,…
Ever since he was a child, Guillermo del Toro has been fascinated by Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’. It is the story of a man who played God, and
Yemi Bamiro on the making of Black Is Beautiful:…
It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” which grew into the cultural movement
The Mastermind | Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere | Two Lane Blacktop (1971)
On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and finally, for film club, Two Lane Blacktop.
