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Will Tom Holland, who we just sawstruggling to live up to his father’s legacy in Christopher Nolan’sThe Odyssey, ever grow up? From his big break as one of the Billy Elliotts on the West End to the adorkable teenage web-slinger, Holland seems to have been coming-of-age for over adecade. In this latest instalment of what

In the first episode, Fleabag-as-narrator initially presents as awoman in control of her own story, the type of cosmopolitan best friend you might grab araucous, profanity-laden brunch with, then go home and secretly worry about. Sure, she goofs up: she beds some subpar candidates thanks to avoracious sexual appetite, gets into passive-aggressive cold wars with

While planes roar overhead on their way to or from nearby Luton Airport, Ish (Farhan Hasnat) and his best friend Maram (Yahya Kitana) ride their bikes through the suburbs in search of summer diversions. As the holidays stretch out in front of them, so too do their imaginations: in the scrubland they build aden out

Christopher Nolan’sThe Odyssey is so stuffed with technical triumphs that singling out one feels alittle like complimenting Poseidon on his puddles. The world’s largest operational Viking ship replica! The first film photographed entirely on IMAX! Astrapping, 3.5‑tonne stallion of aTrojan Horse! All remarkable. All very Nolan. But his most unlikely filmmaking feat? Making the Cyclops

Silent cinema has long had areputation of antiquity, seen by most of the 21st century film audience as outdated, irrelevant and culturally redundant. The narrative of film itself has always been driven by the advent of popular new technology. In 1927,The Jazz Singer took audiences by storm, shifting popular cinema into the era of talkies

Truth &Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth &Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news,

“Synchy is useful for me,“ Temirzhan explains. ​“When I’m not making afilm, Ican still engage with cinema and grow our critics’ community.“ Where he finds the time to run and write for the publication is amystery, given the fact he is also ahighly prolific filmmaker in his region. As co-founder of the grassroots film collectiveTartaly,

With regards to the dialogue and American/​British accents used in place of more accurate speech – Emily Wilson, whose translation of​‘The Odyssey‘ was Nolan and Damon’s north star, hassuccinctly hit that nail on the head. Similarly, it’s hard to get too worked up about the historical realism of the costumes in afilm where a60ft cyclops

Truth &Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with selected colleagues and friends, they discuss the latest movie releases. Truth &Movies has all your film needs covered, reviewing the latest releases big and small, talking to some of the most exciting filmmakers, keeping you across important industry news,

Do you remember sending the cast, maybe it was just Ricki Lake, but you sent them aVHS tape demonstrating some of the Hairspray dances, the Mashed Potato… Do you remember making thattape? Oh yeah, Imade it with the real people who were on the committee of The Buddy Deane Show. The real people, they helped

Since Sam Raimi’s gruesome franchise was brought screaming back to life with the 90-minute bloody ascension that is Evil Dead Rise, atrilogy of Deadite movies was promised. Second up to command thosedemonic sickosis director SébastienVaniček, but can he sustain this hellish crescendo? Enter the dysfunctional family, newly widowed Alice (Souheila Yacoub), and the grieving family,

“It will be ​‘green,’ but amost wonderful green, agreen which no artist could ever obtain on his palette, agreen which neither the varied tints of vegetation nor the shades of the most limpid sea could ever produce the like! If there be green in paradise, it cannot but be of this shade, which most surely

To ​“shoot the people“ means not only to capture them, but to bear witness, and to use the camera as aweapon of testimony. Such is the ethos of Andy Mundy-Castle’s documentaryShoot the People, which follows Nigerian-British photographer and activist Misan Harriman – the first Black male photographer to shoot the cover of British Vogue –

With social media morphing into adomineering beast over the years, young people are increasingly using it as something to hide behind, or worse, to exhibit apersonality that is in no way aligned with their true feelings and values. This couldn’t be more true in the case of Balthazar (Jaeden Martell), awealthy New York City teen

Two ageing drinkers, Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla) in Francesco Sossai’s The Last One for the Road drift across the barren outskirts of Venice in search of their old friend Genio (Andrea Pennacchi) and afinal drink. Their chaotic journey pulls in Giulio (Filippo Scotti), ashy architecture student whose morning academic review is gradually

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival feels as though it’s about the process as much as it is the exhibition of animation. Now in its 66th year, the festival taking place in the French alpine city has changed and grown substantially across the last couple of decades, even just in the last few years, as

For many, grief is acryptic crossword clue for which there’s never quite enough cells for the answer to properly fit – yet it’s aconundrum that you must adapt to and learn how to live with. For meek Columbian factory worker Martha (Jenny Nava), the search for answers – and for justice – has become an

A miserable, cynical and histrionic dirge into the lives of contemporary highschoolers who, according to Serbian director Miroslav Terzić​and screenwriter Bojan Vuletić, want nothing more than to murder one another and dance to shitty techno-pop. From abrazenly portentous opening shot of aburning apartment block, to its fantastically dumb fire-based finale, 3Weeks After plays like an

If you want to get something done in Bulgaria, you’ve got to repress any moral scruples you may have and learn to look people in the eye and say, ​“Yes, Ican make that happen for you, but what do Iget for my troubles?” Kristina Grozeva and Petar ValchanovBlack Money for White Nightsis afilm about an

When you’ve got alion behind you and the sea in front of you, the only choice is to dive in and hope for the best. So says Mariama (Sokhna Diallo) aSenegalese immigrant in Cyprus who, the day after her 18th birthday, has been turfed out of aspecial facility for child refugees and told she has