Over the years, I have run the full gamut of the Cannes experience – from queuing up for early morning screenings and waiting in mile-long lines...
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...
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...
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...
Wong Kar-wai’s second feature is exemplary of a filmmaker having fleshed out their style and authorial voice, as Days of Being Wild is a melancholic fever...
Wong Kar-wai is, first and foremost, a product, proponent, and perpetuator of the Hong Kong New Wave. From the capitalistic and greed-driven depiction of Hong Kong...
Aah, Film festivals! That 6 am alarm at the weekend so you can grab the last seat for the new must-see film starring Timothee Chalamet. (For...
The public image of the Cannes Film Festival is one of glamour. There’s the backdrop of turquoise waves lapping the sandy beach, chic French Mademoiselles strolling...