British actor Helen McCrory has died aged 52 after battling cancer, her husband confirmed in a statement this afternoon. Posting on Twitter, he wrote: “I’m heartbroken to announce that after an heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love […]Read More
With the works of Wong Kar-Wai recently treated to a new 4K restoration, no time is better than now to fall in love with the director’s dreamlike world. Tommy James breaks down his favourite: the lovesick classic Chungking Express. I remember watching Chungking Express for the first time in film class. It was a scratchy […]Read More
Lucasfilm has announced that British Actor, Phoebe Waller-Bridge will join the cast of the fifth Indiana Jones movie. The untitled addition to the iconic franchise will be Harrison Ford’s last, as he reprises his role as the whip-wielding archaeologist for the final time at 78-years-old. Waller-Bridge is renowned for her cutting wit as showcased in […]Read More
An octogenarian goes undercover in a nursing home in The Mole Agent, Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s enjoyably odd Oscar-nominated documentary. While attempting to unearth evidence of abuse, he discovers something different altogether. Within the first few seconds of The Mole Agent, a large, framed photo of Scarface villain Tony Montana is shown hanging from a […]Read More
Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern will star in the upcoming film The Son, writer-director Florian Zeller’s follow up to his Oscar-nominated and BAFTA winning movie The Father. Written for the screen by Zeller and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons), The Son is an adaptation of Zeller’s acclaimed stage play. The film will tell the […]Read More
Laddie: The Man Behind The Movies is a deeply personal love letter from director Amanda Ladd-Jones, both to movies and to her father, film industry executive and producer Alan Ladd Jr. Whilst not always inventive in its structure, Ladd-Jones’ directorial debut manages to breath new life into the ‘talking heads’ format and provide a whirlwind […]Read More
With the closing of entertainment venues due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the longing for theatre productions and performances has never been so strong. Simon Godwin’s Romeo & Juliet was due to perform in July 2020, as noted at the beginning of the television film, but due to the pandemic the run was cancelled. This alternative, […]Read More
Italy has abolished a 1913 censorship law which allowed the government to ban films based on moral and religious grounds. This landmark change will see filmmakers now effectively self-regulating their work, providing an age rating for each film in line with the 2016 Cinema Law. These ratings will be monitored by a commission of 49 […]Read More
Darius Marder’s debut feature Sound of Metal begins with, well, just that: the sound of a metal guitar, reverberating eerily over a black screen. Eventually we see the bare torso of a man, framed by his drum kit with stage lights beating down on his bowed head. Nameless and placeless, we are presented only with […]Read More
Run opens with a flashback scene, something this film makes use of frequently. We see an upset Diane Sherman (Sarah Paulson) after giving birth to a premature baby. Then we are propelled into the present day, seeing Diane and her 17-year-old daughter, Chloe (Kiera Allen). From the offset, a fast and jarring pace is set. […]Read More
One half of the gifted Safdie Brothers duo, Benny Safdie, will join award-winning actress Rachel McAdams in an adaption of Judy Blume’s 1970 novel Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Directed by The Edge of Seventeen’s Kelly Fremon Craig, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is an adaptation of Blume’s classic coming-of-age tale […]Read More
Savvas D. Michael’s Red Rage is as crazy as it sounds. A vigilante couple tear through their town’s drug underworld in a spell of murderous lust; the husband, Oscar (Jack Turner), claims the killings were inspired by a vision from God, while the wife, Ella (Fernanda Diniz), is uncontrollably aroused by her husband’s homicidal obsession. […]Read More
Movie Monday: Film Recommendations By Our Contributors Death is an intriguing concept: it’s inevitable, yet we don’t know much about it until it eventually happens. Will the world just fall silent and go dark? Will we know that it’s coming, or will it be instant? For me, death is a concept that the Netflix original […]Read More
Too restrained to be fun and too superficial to be chilling, The Banishing is a dull film that feels much longer than its 97 minutes. Elisabetta Pulcini reviews. The Banishing follows a young family formed by Marianne (Jessica Brown Findlay), her daughter Adelaide (Anya McKenna-Bruce) and her husband Linus (John Heffernan), a vicar, as they […]Read More
The latest entry in Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse is the massive mutant clash we’ve all been waiting for. The last time these two behemoths of the screen exchanged fists (and claws) was in 1962’s King Kong vs. Godzilla. Waiting nearly 60 years for a rematch, the atomic-powered lizard and the larger-than-life primate deliver a memorable showdown that will satisfy […]Read More
