Lewis Royle

  • The Indiependent sits down with contemporary classical duo Rasa Daukus and Will Larsen, known as Tess Said So, to discuss their award-winning live musical score for the 1922 gothic horror classic Nosferatu. […]

  • This week, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has cancelled several projects in various stages of completion. The one that made the most noise, though, was the announcement that Batgirl, directed by Bilall Fallah & […]

  • 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most important films ever made; German Expressionist director F.W Murnau’s 1922 horror masterpiece Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (often simply call […]

  • The first solo Batman film since 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, Matt Reeves’ The Batman is finally here—and well worth the decade-long wait.

    ★★★★★

    The Batman’s caped crusader is brought to life by Robert Pa […]

  • Tammy Faye: From Christian Televangelism to Queer Sainthood The Eyes of Tammy Faye is an upcoming biopic about Tammy Faye Messner, one of the most famous and prolific […]

  • Spider-Man: No Way Home is still keeping the competition at bay as it remains the highest-grossing film at the UK box office after six weeks, raking in £2.3 million last weekend.  

    This puts it ahead of  […]

  • Lewis Royle wrote a new post 4 years ago

    It’s that time of year to start discussing which films of 2021 might prevail and go on to win some big awards next year. As ever, the spotlight is on who might prevail in the most coveted categories of them a […]

  • Lewis Royle wrote a new post 4 years ago

    Chloé Zhao’s much-anticipated Eternals is star-studded, action-packed and most importantly—a breath of fresh air for the MCU. 

    ★★★✰✰

    Eternals, Marvel’s latest cinematic outing written and directed by Acade […]

  • Lewis Royle wrote a new post 4 years ago

    Jane Campion’s return to the big screen is a resounding success as Benedict Cumberbatch steals the show in this tense, psychosexual western drama.

    ★★★★✰

    The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s triumphant re […]

  • As the spookiest night of the year approaches, let’s look at one of cinema’s defining techniques—the jump scare.

    The jump scare is one of the most effective techniques a filmmaker has in their arsenal. Regar […]

  • This film is being screened as part of the 2021 BFI London Film Festival and you can find all of our coverage of the festival here

    Joel Coen gives us a supernatural Macbeth like no other with Denzel […]

  • In his first outing without his brother Ethan, Joel Coen is adapting William Shakespeare’s dark tragedy Macbeth. Coen, the writer and director, has kept us all waiting for any footage from his adaptation, st […]

  • This year marks the 70th Anniversary of A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the play of the same name by American playwright Tennessee Williams. When it premiered on Broadway in 1947, it was immensely successful, […]