Film

Bearing the name of one of the wealthiest families in American history, James Vanderbilt has covered the gamut of genre in his screenwriting career. Having dashed off David Fincher’sZodiac,The Amazing Spider-Man,Slender Man, and Netflix’sMurder Mysteryfilms, Vanderbilt took to directing with 2015’sTruth starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes set during the Iraq War. The film critiqued

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 by the film’s unlikely hero, J. Daniel Atlas (Jesse Eisenberg). What follows was an increasingly ridiculous, self-important and deeply fun crime caper, chasing ​“the four horsemen” as they swindled their

Projecting back to those halcyon days when narrative media about must-win dystopian death sports was satisfyingly scarce. It’s been along time since Paul Michael Glaser’s 1987 film The Running Man, so we can raise awry smile when we see its opening drag where it announces, with Nostradamus-like precision that, ​“By 2017, the world economy has

While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom – his crew have problems of their own. His manager Ron (Adam Sandler) is constantly on the phone to his incredibly understanding wife Lois (Greta Gerwig) as she deals with their own familial crisis, while Kelly’s

Preset no. two, my local student-run station, is not interested in boundaries, generationally or sonically. The college kids play an eclectic range of music, including some from the era older folk claim these kids are so far removed from. Despite moving away, Ikept the preset for my hometown college station too. Idistinctly remember the night

Predators: Badlandsworks best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles, there’s atextured sensuality to the world crafted by director Dan Trachtenberg that’s undeniably appealing. The scaled, rippled skin of the Predator has acertain kind of beauty; its hollowed out face, golden eyes and expressive mandibles

The hallowed performer and auteur of acting, Daniel Day-Lewis, is aman who perpetually has his out of office on, though in the background he’s probably perusing his inbox, and occasionally deigns to reply out of sheer politeness. Yet his first screen outing since 2017’s Phantom Thread is strictly afamily affair, with his son Ronan on

If you haven’t lived it, it’s hard to explain, that gnawing discomfort that makes you want to do something certified-capital‑C loony-bin-admission Crazy. Walk into traffic or throw your body down the stairs or slash up your skin with arazor blade or bite one of your fingers off like ababy carrot. It’s like alot of things.

When you have need to go into ahospital, most people in their right mind would expect one of two possible outcomes: firstly, you might walk out back out the door with some deeper clarity of your suspected ailments; or secondly, you might not come out at all, if circumstances are particularly grave. In Dolores Fonzi’s

Throughout her career, Lynne Ramsay has created some of the most searing character studies in modern cinema. From Ratcatcher to You Were Never Really Here, her work is defined by unflinching direction and fearless performances. In her new work, Die My Love, she teams up with Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson to create her take

A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of acentury, from the rapid expansion of the railways in the 1910s to the thundering highways of the 1960s. Adapting this much-lauded miniature epic might seem like afool’s errand, but Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar, who previously

The film’s title, renamed from the story’s originalSave the Green Planet!, speaks to acentral fascination of Kubrick spanning from Lolita to Eyes Wide Shut. ​“Bugonia” refers to amythological process holding that bees would spawn from the carcass of an ox. This sexual and reproductive anxiety is baked into the fabric ofBugonia as one species’ demise

Ever since he was achild, Guillermo del Toro has been fascinated by Mary Shelley’s ​‘Frankenstein’. It is the story of aman who played God, and his complicated creation has remained aconstant influence for the filmmaker. Indeed, for much of his career he has been vocal in his yearning to adapt the novel for the screen,

Do you know your neighbour? Do you know them by name? Have you held aconversation beyond ​“hi, do you have my parcel?” For many of us, the person next door is afigure we only see occasionally. We hear their dog barking or baby crying through the walls, but interaction can be slim. According to a2023⁄24

Every time Iwrite about Ed Wood it hurts. Not because of the extremely personal content of the work, or because of an artist lost to housing insecurity and addiction, but because after asentence or two, no matter how much Itry to avoid it, I’m going to have to use apronoun. There was no point in

In alandscape of historical subversions and reinterpretations, Palestine 36 tells the story straight. Before revolution brings violent coherence as writer-director Annemarie Jacir’s cast of all-too-familiar archetypes juggle developments in Palestine over the course of 1936. There’s the introspective youth Yusuf (Karim Daoud Anaya), who moves from Palestinian villages ravaged by unhinged military man Captain Wingate

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 that would unapologetically embrace and celebrate Blackness, especially honouring the beauty of darker-skinned individuals. Originally born Gilbert Ronald Brathwaite, the photographer later chose to rename himself ​‘Kwame’ in honour ofKwame

Change was in the air at Aardman Animation in the early 2000s. After decades of making aname for themselves through animated ads and celebrated shorts, it was only natural for the studio to get bigger. ​“I personally think of the Aardman story as being very linear,” says co-founder Peter Lord, talking to Little White Lies

Radu Jude’s Hungarian protagonist Orsolya (Eszter Tompa) lives near the historic Transylvanian city of Cluj, which is being overrun by tech-driven gentrification. Orsolya means well, really, but her job as abailiff requires her to evict ahomeless man occupying the boiler room of abuilding set to be turned into aluxury hotel. In the 20-minute window he’s

In times of great societal upheaval, it becomes appealing for many to find ascapegoat upon which all ills and injustice can be conveniently pinned. Some choose aminority based on race, gender, religion or sexuality; others might opt for another country more generally, or, in the case of Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons), an alien species from