Curry Barker’s Obsession arrives as part of the ongoing resurgence of low‑budget horror, a movement proving that inventive filmmaking and sharp thematic focus can still pull audiences into cinemas. Ma...

Since The Mandalorian first aired back in 2019, there has been one (small, green) element that has won over even the purest of Star Wars fans. Now, Grogu not only has his name added to the title, but ...

Egyptian mummies have been appearing on screen since 1899. Whilst the most famous examples include Boris Karloff’s bandage-clad Imhotep and Stephen Sommer’s 1999 box office smash, it is perhaps one of...

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Dead Man’s Wire finds Gus Van Sant working in a mode that suits him perfectly: a tense, character‑driven true‑crime drama that doubles as a study of alienation, economic grievance and media spectacle....

Jan Komasa’s Good Boy arrives as one of those unsettling, genre‑slippery films that resists easy categorisation, operating somewhere between psychological thriller, social parable and pitch‑black char...

Stroma Cairns’s debut feature The Son and The Sea is a quietly affecting coming‑of‑age drama that unfolds with the patience of a tide rolling in. Set against the rugged beauty of the Scottish coastlin...

Romantic comedies have long relied on familiar formulas - meet-cutes, misunderstandings, reconciliations - but Splitsville takes great pleasure in dismantling those conventions with a sledgehammer. Ra...

Max Walker-Silverman’s Rebuilding is a gentle, quietly affecting drama that approaches loss in a way that feels rooted to the landscape it inhabits. Rather than leaning into the devastation of wildfir...

Franz Kafka is one of the most celebrated writers of all time, spawning his own adjective to encompass all this surreal and nightmarish. His seminal works, including The Penal Colony, The Trial and Th...

Bury the Devil unfolds with a sense of inevitability, beginning at the story’s endpoint. We are immediately primed for a slow, unnerving descent into the night that preceded it. The film uses the sing...

Richard Hawkins’ Think of England arrives as a curious hybrid: part wartime drama, part behind‑the‑scenes chamber piece and part psychological study of people pushed far beyond their limits. What begi...

British cinema has long been rooted in the raw, unvarnished realities of working‑class life, from the kitchen‑sink dramas of the 1960s to the social‑realist films that continue to interrogate austerit...

James J. Robinson’s First Light is a remarkably confident debut, the kind of first feature that feels as though its director has already spent years refining a personal cinematic language. Set in a re...

“Don’t be scared. If a bullet is fired, film it,” a voice off camera says, about halfway through Kamal Aljafari’s breathless documentary of life in occupied Palestine. From the very first frames, With...

Jan Komasa’s Good Boy arrives as one of those unsettling, genre‑slippery films that resists easy categorisation, operating somewhere between psychological thriller, social parable and pitch‑black char...

Dead Man’s Wire finds Gus Van Sant working in a mode that suits him perfectly: a tense, character‑driven true‑crime drama that doubles as a study of alienation, economic grievance and media spectacle....

Written and directed by Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 is a documentary that feels less like a historical portrait and more like a klaxon sounding across the present day. The film is anchored in the final ...

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” is surely one of the most famous cries in all of cinema. And whilst Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein doesn’t give us a repeat of this refrain, it certainly revels in all the...