Director Joachim Trier’s films The Worst Person in the World and Oslo, August 31st are fundamentally identical despite their exterior dissimilitude. Oslo follows a young recovering drug addict called...
The Oscars are live on Sunday 27 March at 8pm ET on ABC. In the UK they will air at 1am GMT on the Sky Cinema...
Patricia Highsmith’s works have long proven cinematic goldmines from her debut novel Strangers on A Train becoming a 1951 Hitchcock classic through multiple iterations of Tom...
A couple of weeks ago, the Oscar nominations ignited the first real spark of public interest in awards season 2022. It centred around fans of Lady...
The Beatles ended because they needed creative and personal independence, not because Yoko Ono sat on an amp. Between their influences across visual art, social politics,...
Following his first two films, Wong Kar-wai left behind any influences and pastiches of Hong Kong filmmakers. What emerges is a postmodern world that is uniquely...
In a market where crime is the most sought after drama, Agatha Christie remains its supreme pioneer. The world’s all-time best-selling author, her novels have been...
The world of theatre has often taken inspiration from other mediums, sometimes even elevating them beyond their original form. Among the highest grossing musicals of all...
Valentine’s Day has always been polarising. I know people that truly embrace it, eagerly shopping for cards that rhyme, breakfast in bed, chocolates in red heart-shaped...
In a kitchen in Gerlan, North Wales, back in the early 2000s, my friend Tom’s TV could access German MTV somehow. It was too expensive to...
Any movie marinating in its love of cats can only make for a joyous partnership with the cinephiles of 2022. A relatively unsung gem of the...
Shakespeare and film have a long and varied history with many takes on the Bards works both in the English language and translated into a plethora...
Awards season is in full swing. Even if the major ceremonies haven’t started yet, the frocks and tuxes are being dry-cleaned as we speak, and the...
At one hundred years old, Japanese cinema remains totemic in its placement in film culture. Japanese cinema is steeped in the nation’s sense of tradition and...
Upon seeing Ghostbusters: Afterlife in the cinema, it was not something I was particularly looking forward to seeing. Like many, I did not want to find...
