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Most filmmakers are lucky if they make one masterpiece in their lifetime – Park Chan-wook can’t seem to stop doing it. No Other Choice is his long-awaited adaptation of Donald Westlake’s 1997 corporate satire-thriller ​‘The Ax’, about alaid-off employee who decides to thin out the job pool. Reuniting with leading man Lee Byung-hun, director Park

Named for the tiny Mariana island in the Philippine Sea that played host to the Irish national football team’s training camp ahead of the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Tokyo, Saipan is Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa’s fictionalised spin on asporting travesty that still causes fierce debate: captain Roy Keane’s abrupt departure from the

In Donald Westlake’s 1997 horror novel ​‘The Ax’, arecently laid-off manager at apaper company decides to thin out the competition in the job pool by tracking down and taking out his potential competitors as he vies for anew job. Westlake’s book was written amid the corporate redundancies of ​’90s America; it struck achord with the

Without the glossy production values that come with screening in amultiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on their ability to curate interesting lineups of films. ​“I try to bring in atheme”, Phoebe says, ​“whether that be ideological, like in our first season, ​‘Rotten Britain’, or something more formal, like the ​‘Time and

Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges preconceived notions of what Japanese cinema is or can be. Through their Women’s Empowerment and Nippon Cinema Now strands, the festival often showcases new work from female and non-binary filmmakers who bring their unique worldview

Many – myself included – were thrown through abit of aloop when Brit golden boy Ben Wheatley presented his 2013 fourth feature,AField in England, to an unsuspecting and sober public. Film critics tend to favour cosy narratives when it comes to generalising about the careers of the artists that they love, and following atrio of

Poor Spike (Alfie Williams) hasn’t been having the best time during the zombie apocalypse. After the events of 28 Years Later saw him lose his mother, become disillusioned with his father’s hard-nosed attitude and come acropper of Sir Jimmy Crystal’s (Jack O’Connell) ultra-violent troupe of acrobatic Saville acolytes, the opening of sequel The Bone Temple

We may still be deep in the 2025 awards cycle for afew more months, but that’s no excuse for looking into the deep blue yonder at some of the cinematic delights that may be bobbing to the surface in the coming weeks and months. Here we present to you part one of our round-up of

This is anear impossible film to review. In aworld flooded with propaganda and misinformation about the genocide in Gaza, Kaouther Ben Hania’s film speaks with radical honesty and its filmmaking merits feel of powerful consequence. Even setting aside its subject matter, it is an astounding feat of dramatising real events with an eye on the

Since playing atoothpaste superhero in an advertisement, down-on-his-luck actor Phillip Vanderploeg (Brendan Fraser) has been living in Tokyo for several years and further opportunities have been thin on the ground. Accepting aday-long gig as ​“Sad American” at afuneral, where the dedicatee turns out to be alive in the coffin, he enters awhole world of for-hire

This is afilm about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with remarkable restraint.State of Statelessness is an anthology comprisingfour tales by the Drung Collective, agroup of filmmakers working within the Tibetan diaspora.Each story is shaped by the same unresolved grief – for adistant land occupied and

It’s nearing aquarter-century since the retirement of ​“Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For awhile, in the run-up to the new millennium, he was everywhere: transcending the sports section to provide primetime entertainment and front-page news, bolstering his swelling celebrity with both combative talent (career record: 36 wins, only one loss)

It’s only amatter of time before kids are doing the Peter (Hujar) Pilgrimage: aleisurely photographer’s stroll down New York’s 2nd Avenue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 14th to 10th that cuts east across 10th and lands at one of the apartments between Alphabet City’s Avenue Cand Avenue D, where – in spirit

This is afilm about what it means to have children and the pulverising consequences that come from potentially losing them before they have had time to thrive. In terms of emotional trigger points and failsafe methods to make acinema audience sob, the premature death of achild is equivalent to holding four aces – asurefire victory

The career ascent of writer/​director Chloé Zhao has been immense, taking in intimate indie dramas (Songs My Brother Taught Me, The Rider), sprawling sagas that cleaned up at the Oscars (Nomadland) and the more thoughtful side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Eternals). She returns with an emotionally tumultuous adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, ​‘Hamnet’,

Emily Maskell Five personal favourite films of2025 Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor) April (Dea Kulumbegashvili) Flow (Gints Zilbalodis) On Falling (Laura Carreira) Cinematographer of theyear Darius Khondji (Mickey 17) Below theline Léo Silly-Pélissier (Animation director, Flow) Old guard Stellan Skarsgård New school Chase Infiniti It’s f***kin’ trash but Iloved it Bridget Jones:

I first became acquainted with Freida McFadden’s New York Times bestselling thriller ​‘The Housemaid’ earlier in 2025, when Istumbled across aYouTube video entitled ​“Is this the worst book ever written?”. Intrigued by the title Iclicked – the reviewer gave adetailed review of McFadden’s book, which concerns ayoung ex-con who takes amaid position in an affluent

In 2016, David Bowie’s death shook the world like asupernova– adeliberately-staged explosion that collapsed alifetime of personas into asingle, blinding point of closure. Ten years later, with aglut of posthumous Bowie films in tow, the question is no longer what remains to be said, but how it can still besaid. The Final Act treats Bowie

I’m really in pursuit of greatness,” Timotheé Chalamet announced in February 2025 while accepting the Screen Actor’s Guild Award for Male Actor in aLeading Role. ​“I know people don’t usually talk like that, but Iwant to be one of the greats.” Chalamet’s statement was earnest enough, if not alittle self-serious (he was being recognised for

Given how rare event television is in the streaming era, watercooler moments are far and few between. While Celebrity Traitors is agripping exception to this rule, the field of other possibilities is vast. Mammoth franchises sit alongside original storytelling in aTV schedule of your own making as the medium continues to adapt to the evolving