Criterion Review: F for Fake
★★★★★ Ostensibly a documentary about art forger Elmyr de Hory and his equally slippery biographer, Clifford Irving, Orson Welles’ last completed film is more an […]
The Swedish entertainment industry is growing – and it’s not just film
If you’ve been paying attention, you may have noticed that Sweden has been stepping up their entertainment game. We’ve been seeing Swedish actors rise to […]
Film Review: Mission: Impossible – Fallout
★★★★★ IMF Agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and long-time associates Luther (Ving Rhames) and Benji (Simon Pegg) are on the trail of the Syndicate, a […]
Film Review: Iceman
★★★☆☆ Inspired by the famous frozen Ötzal mummy discovered in 1991, Felix Randau’s third feature tells the story of the eponymous Iceman’s final days. Living […]
Film Review: Apostasy
★★★★☆ Daniel Kokotajlo’s debut Apostasy is a remarkable and authentic mediation on religion, belief, family and loss. Single mother Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran) runs a matriarchal household, […]
Why the American West is the world’s favourite film set
The sprawling, other-worldly deserts combined with isolated communities and the stunning natural backdrops that constitute the great American West have captured our imaginations for generations. […]
Film Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp
★★★★☆ Bring It On director Peyton Reed returns with Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, a heartfelt family comedy in which the peril lies in […]
DVD Review: King of Hearts
★★★★☆ In 1918, a German regiment occupies a small French town, to which they hope to lure the advancing British army before blowing the place […]
DVD Review: Berlin Alexanderplatz
★★★★★ In 1928 Berlin, Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) is released from prison after serving four years for the manslaughter of his girlfriend, Ida (Barbara Valentin). […]
Film Review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
★★★☆☆ Waiting more than a decade to release a sequel, the candy-coloured world of Mamma Mia! returns to cinemas this summer in the form of Mamma […]
Film Review: Hotel Artemis
★★★★☆ It’s 2028 and rioting fills the streets of Los Angeles. Disputes over water, now privatised, have reached a volatile point and the city is […]
Film Review: Generation Wealth
★★★☆☆ “Greed isn’t good” remains the predominant message in Laura Greenfield’s sporadically engrossing and frequently overreaching look at the culture of capitalism. Generation Wealth feels […]
Karlovy Vary 2018: Our festival highlights
“I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” Radu Jude’s film claimed the top prize at this year’s festival and it’s […]
Karlovy Vary 2018: Winter Flies review
★★★★☆ Olmo Omerzu’s follow-up to the stinging satire of 2015’s Family Film is another tale of children left to their own devices by negligent parents, […]
Film Review: Happy as Lazzaro
★★★★☆ Alice Rohrwacher returns with her remarkable third film about a rural Italian community. Happy as Lazzaro sparkles with soul, enchantment and introspection – it’s […]
Karlovy Vary 2018: Profile review
★★★☆☆ Unfolding entirely on a laptop screen, Timur Bekmambetov’s new thriller Profile seeks to explore the murky world of how social media is used to […]
Film Review: Burning
★★★★☆ Lee Chang-dong’s Burning features red-hot actor Yoo Ah-in (as Jong-su), Steven Yeun (as Ben) and newcomer Jeon Jong-seo (as Hae-mi) in an intricate thriller […]
Karlovy Vary 2018: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” review
★★★★☆ Following 2015’s Aferim!, Radu Jude returns to the topic of historical Romanian anti-Semitism in his furious new satire “I Do Not Care If We […]