Film

Therapy, as we know, can take anumber of different forms. For Australian multi-instrumentalists and Nick Cave cohort, Warren Ellis, this process of self-enrichment encompasses awildlife sanctuary for abused animals in Sumatra. Filmmaker Justin Kurzel captures Ellis’s musical theorising and grey-beard musings and then contextualises them against atrip to the titular park where we meet Femke

Throughout these performances something chameleonic about Mortensen as an actor materialises. There’s asoftness to the way he carries himself as Tom Stall and yet, when he plays the Russian mobster Nikolai inEastern Promises, his features seem sharper and more threatening. That sense of achanged self desperately clawing towards the surface plays out through more internal

Something you might not know aboutThe Strangers: Chapter 2 – other than that it even exists to begin with – is that it is asequel to the film that attempted to rebootThe Strangersrather than afollow-up to the 2008 original. Its direct predecessor lived and died quietly in 2018, but with two sequels already in the

The first image of György Pálfi’sHen– an extended close-up on achicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take the prize for the most arresting opening shot of 2025. It’s certainly asight most cinephiles won’t have seen before, and there’s plenty of them to come in the Greek director’s poultry picture, which take abird’s

In 2015, the UK-born Shamima Begum fled to Syria with adesire to join Islamic State, adecision which resulted in much knee-jerk vilification in the national media. It also led those more empathetic towards the enigmas of human behaviour to try to comprehend why she did what she did. This timely debut feature by Nadia Fall,

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail played at the Cannes Film Festival afull year before Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, which is worth noting in that both films have strikingly similar set-ups regarding the moral and ethical pretexts of bringing war criminals to justice. Hamid (Adam Bessa) shiftily walks up to apark bench

In his controversial but undeniably significant smash hit ​‘Stan’, Eminem relayed the story of an obsessive fan who would do anything to get the attention of his idol. His deteriorating mental health – conveyed through aseries of increasingly worrying letters to Eminem – eventually led him to threats, then acts, of violence, and even some

Early into the namesake forABig Bold Beautiful Journey, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) venture back in time to his high school, on the night of his first heartbreak. He clutches his chest, but smiles – laughs, even. ​“It feels exactly like it felt,” he says, visually giddy at the sensation of the same

From its opening moments, Neo Sora’s Happyend evokes aworld aflame with uncertainty. Title cards bearing cryptic phrases about old systems, restless enforcers, and crumbling frameworks give way to the declaration: ​“Something big is about to change.” In context, the statement seems ominous, but it doesn’t take long for the film to articulate that its near-future

When an actor wins abig award, or in the case of Cillian Murphy, the biggest award, the pressure mounts when it comes to answering that old chestnut of what happens next. Respect to Murphy, as rather than cash in his respectability chips with some thankless sidekick role in asuperhero monstrosity, he’s chosen to keep things

Between screenings, adiverse lineup of gastronomic experiences, talks and theatre led our culinary horizons to new frontiers. Tastings ofFresa di Ittiricheese from Sardinia and beer made of grape must derived from Moscato wine production are delicious reminders that an extensive network of independent producers and agricultural associations are the beating hearts behind Italy’s world-renowned cuisine.

Sometimes, it takes the creative impetus of agreat filmmaker to finally pick up that chunky novel that’s been sitting gathering dust on your book shelves since god-knows-when. Such was the case with my own yellowing edition of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel, ​‘Vineland’, which I’d shirked for too long having understood it to be, from contemporary

Eccentric food-preparation competitions are usually the domain of eagle-eyed TV execs who must attempt to work out the drama can be spun across 24 weeks and showcase adozen ​“characters” for the nation to root for. Filmmaker Constantine Costi manages to go from top to tail in awhip-cracking 75minutes, chronicling as he does the 2023 edition

For anyone that has paid even amodicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that make upFrom Ground Zero will be very familiar. Compiled of 22 shorts, all created since Israel increased their military efforts against Palestine in 2023, this anthology does exactly what the title suggests: it documents the

Nevertheless, Coppola knew what she wanted and, pressed for time, Godin and Dunckle returned to the studio for aweekend. In need of vocals, they turned to the only singer they knew, fellow Versailles native and Phoenix frontman, Thomas Mars, who in atwist of fate no one could have anticipated, Coppola would later end up marrying.

There are shades ofSuccessionin Aneil Karia’sHamlet:astylish, uneven adaptation that takes pleasure in entropy and extremity.Set at the estate of awealthy desi family in present-day London, the film begins by bringing our eponymous prince (Riz Ahmed) face-to-face with his father’s corpse. We see him performing rites, anointing the body with sandalwood paste; the naturalistic handheld camera

At aDavos-like gathering inside acavernous marble mine, global elites in dinner dress enjoy atweezer-precise amuse-bouche and aperformance of Cerrone’s all-time Italodisco banger ​“Supernature” by Charli XCX, when the performance is interrupted by acadre of pagan eco-warriors led by Anya Taylor-Joy with white Scandi sniper suit, assault rifle, and red headband over Greta Thunberg bangs, striding

A period piece inspired by her own childhood as the daughter of aFrench colonial official in Africa, Claire Denis’s first feature film, 1988’sChocolat, concerned the domestic arrangements of awhite family in Cameroon, particularly the mother’s fraught, ambiguously intense relationship with their servant (Isaach de Bankolé). The director returned to the continent in the late 90s

The aging painter Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) of Steven Soderbergh’sThe Christophers is introduced recording cameos, donning aberet for the occasion and signing off each time by drawing his autograph in the air, as if signing apainting, aflourish that costs each Cameo customer an extra hundred quid. Awork of art is worth more when signed by

There’s aman face down in the sand, unmoving. Nothing but vast golden sand dunes and endless blue sky surrounds him. Then, his body twitches awake. This is the raspy and rugged Tom (Sam Riley), who regularly wakes up hungover on the beach or by the pool or in his car with no recollection of how