Category: Movie

Lovingly rendered period detail, check. A deft blending of this history with strokes of the old-fashioned occult, check. An undercurrent of seething forbidden desire that lends a heightened sense of stakes to the story at hand, check. This can mean only one thing — a new

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This formally unambitious talking heads documentary introduces us to celebrity physician and immunologist Anthony Fauci as he prepares for just another day at the office. This involves standing at the vanguard in the battle against Covid-19, batting away troll messages from

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In 2016 The Hollywood Reporter dubbed Sion Sono “the most subversive filmmaker working in Japanese cinema today”. Unpredictable, eclectic and irreverent, it was perhaps only a matter of time before he found his way to kindred spirit Nicolas Cage, who has achieved a similar

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We dig into the ‘Hawkeye’ trailer, celebrate its many comic book references, and consider how it chooses to adapt its source material differently than the current ‘What If…?’ series. Source link

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Though it looked for a moment like the pesky pandemic that just refuses to end would preempt a lot of the cinema programming for the remainder of the year, many distributors are holding fast to their scheduling plans and moving forward with caution. A lot of the titles with

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The trim running time of Bertrand Desrochers and Darragh Carey’s A Brixton Tale means a complicated social drama is delivered while saving a hell of a lot of shoe leather in the process. Wealthy white YouTuber Leah (Lily Newmark) tracks down reserved black youth Benji (Ola

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The success of John Wick – not just the box-office returns, but its cultural permeation of the mainstream seemingly attained by one or perhaps two original-concept movies per decade these days – guaranteed that it would spawn imitators. Those hopeful that the industry

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Turning a Broadway hit into a film usually goes one of two ways: either you cash in on audience goodwill and force them to endure an uninspired, overlong restaging (see: Cats); or you carve out something fresh that actually feels tailored for the screen. Stephen Karam’s The

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I recently made a film, The Story of Looking, about how I see. It got me thinking about the movies I’ve watched throughout my life, and which moments in them struck me as genuinely new. I love genre cinema as much as the next person and genre’s pleasures come from

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A decade on from his 15-hour magnum opus, The Story of Film comes another chapter in the life and interests of critic-turned-filmmaker Mark Cousins. The Story of Looking, is expanded from his 2017 book of the same name, yet this time the director limits himself to 90 minutes

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