Film

The subject of male violence and the manosphere entered the political arena around the release of Adolescence on Netflix, which featured Ashley Walters in an acting role. Its impact was profound and it is currently the second most watched Netflix show ever made. In his debut feature film as director, Walters collaborates with screenwriter Nick

Barely out of his twenties, Lance Oppenheim has already established himself as something of amoving image renaissance man. With documentaries, shorts, music videos and more under his belt, he turns his hand to dramatic fiction with Primetime, aportrait of American TV presenter Chris Hansen (played with oily precision by Robert Pattinson) who was responsible for

In aworld where much of mid-budget Hollywood cinema comes in acacophony of sludgy greys and browns, Boots Riley is aglorious peacock. His films seem almost indecently alive. He plays with the frame like achild prodigy, acutely aware of the possibilities of lenses, angles and composition. He has yet to have the imagination and joy squashed

If the British filmmaker Terence Davies had been more into the Manchester post-punk scene rather than Doris Day and The King Singers, then there’s achance he might have made something akin to Carol Morley’s captivating, ripped-from-the-heart memory piece, 7Miles Out. This new fiction feature from the reliably leftfield writer/​director offers atragicomic bildungsroman detailing life below

The cosy, romantic status quo that hetrosexual couples enjoy in the formative stages of arelationship tends to fall by the wayside when anew child enters the scene. Our bodily chemistry suddenly alters as this bundle of joy must be protected, pandered to and become the centre of all attention, even if it’s driving agiant wedge

None of the couples are truly in love in co-directors Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s adaptation of Ursula Wills short fable, The Wicker Husband. It is medieval times and the population are held prisoner to social convention and the hallowed institute of marriage where women are literally placed in acollar like adog on their

Mystery is something that remains thoroughly connected to the influential German director FW Murnau – both in terms of his work and their fate, as well as to his mythology. It is devilishly tempting to view this air of mystery in connection to Murnau’s singular ability to capture the supernatural. Several Murnau pictures are lost

God, don’t you just hate it when you’re at afancy cocktail soirée and Wagner’s kids trap you in their sight lines and attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of their father, his work having provided an unwitting soundtrack to the Third Reich? And it’s not just the rightists who are apain, as there’s nothing worse than

Lee Chang-dong only makes films when he’s good and ready, as Possible Love is his follow-up to 2018’s astounding love-triangle drama, Burning. This new film explores class, gender, generational conflict and filmmaking through the prism of two couples who breach the economic divide to collaborate on adocumentary. LWLies: Do you see any aspect of performance

Queer Edward IITheo Rollason It’s ajubilant homecoming for London-based director Theo Rollason, who scooped up the Queer Lion at this year’s Venice Film Festival for their behind-the-scenes documentary covering the fraught production of Derek Jarman’sEdward II. Using Seamus McGarvey’s never-before-seen archive of betacam footage, Rollason builds an evocative capsule of 1990’s queer activism extending out

Were you to cut the skin of Stan Rennie, his blood would run with the distinct perfume of the Teesside fishing community of which he has been apart for the majority of his life. He lands lobsters, crabs and prawns and though this hasn’t led to vast riches, he has lived acomfortable life, continuing atimeworn

The tenth commandment prefaces Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love: Thou shalt not covet. Whether it’s thy neighbour’s house or thy neighbour’s wife, the Good Book is clear about the price of envy, but it’s hard to not believe the grass is greener when your own garden lies parched and withered. For Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon) and her

In every interview about Wildwood, director and Laika head honcho Travis Knight has mentioned that the film has been along time in the making. He first read Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis’ novel in the summer of 2011, before it was even available the the public; that fantastical story of apreteen girl who becomes embroiled

Over the past few years, Andrzej Żuławski’sPossession has been put on the internet’s radar as amorbid curiosity. You can find the film on endless ​‘most disturbing movies ever made’iceberg lists that the algorithm favours; the gruesome, uncanny moments being perfect visuals for clickable thumbnails. And then there is Anna (Isabelle Adjani) thrashing around in oversized

Making-of documentaries tend to be amixed-bag proposition. They can risk seeming like extras on aBlu-Ray release or exercises in navel-gazing. But when Eleanor Coppola picked up acamera and began to film the on-set circus of her husband Francis’ chaotic 1979 production of Apocalypse Now in her film Hearts of Darkness, she showed herself capable of

4. DelupiDirected by Mohammad Touqir Islam Delupi was filmed in aremote village in Bangladesh in the aftermath of great political and environmental turmoil that shook the country, especially its poorest communities. Director Mohammad Touqir Islam and his crew embedded themselves within the village, allowing events to unfold organically and gaining the trust of the people

We’ve come to amystifying juncture in human history, as the rampant onslaught of AI clogs up our news feeds and provides daily threats to all life in existence. Fun, eh? There are many who believe we’re getting close to afive-alarm extinction event if we don’t act now, turn off the big switch and leave asmall

As achild who grew up attending Sunday school every week, Isuppose I’ve thought about being swallowed by awhale more than the average person. In the classic Old Testament story, the prophet Jonah is swallowed by awhale (it might have just been abig fish) because he defies God’s direct instructions to go to the city of

In late 2018, France ground to ahalt on the back of the gilets jaunes protests in which naffed-off labourers downed tools and expressed their grief on the streets. In Paris, members of the law enforcement anti-gang brigade (BRI) were handed aremit to tool up as quickly as possible and take whatever steps were necessary to