Movies
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Landscape Collector: the scout behind Hollywood’s…
In Christopher Nolan’s forthcoming The Odyssey, ancient Troy is played by the Ksar of Aït Benhaddou, an 11th-century Moroccan fortress…
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The Weight review – gold in them hills
At the absolute least, debutant director Padraic McKinley is probably going to be bombarded with work offers on the back…
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Digger review – a satire with no meaningful target
For those still bitter that renegade Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu’s divisive theatreland satire Birdman beat out Richard Linklater’s Boyhood…
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Cotton Queen review – reclaims the crown for…
For generations of Sudanese women, cotton meant money of their own. Grandmothers spun raw fibres into thread and sold it,…
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Extra Geography review – a delightfully…
A teen girl’s best friend is more important than her first kiss and while few would willingly admit to this…
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Charles Melton: ‘It was like a waking dream’
We’re calling it the biggest Oscar snub of modern times – Charles Melton should have been recognised for his tremendous…
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The forgotten hybrids of Japan’s Y2K horror boom
The films didn’t exactly support Ichise’s 2005 statement that “Japanese horror is scarier than American horror”, but they were exemplary…
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Sophie Thatcher: ‘It felt like the most I’d ever…
Sophie Thatcher hasn’t slept properly in weeks. Between wrapping the final season of cult horror series Yellowjackets and being a part…
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Nicolas Winding Refn: ‘I’d been given a gift to…
Nicolas Winding Refn returns to the cinema – and from the dead – with a neon-hued fable about the father-daughter relationship…
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Her Private Hell review – a wild new showcase of…
In 2007, I got up early one autumn morning and took the train to Worksop in Nottinghamshire. My reading material for…
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