European cinema breeds provocateurs, from Pasolini to Haneke to Noé, Österlund and Radu Jude. Although separated by generations, nationalities and genres, these filmmakers never shy away from confronting their audience with the crass, controversial and/or achingly contemporary. Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer...
For those not intimately familiar with the topographical and historical minutiae of the UK, the relatively blasé way in which the British public react to the inciting event of David Mackenzie’s Fuze might seem a bit odd. An unexploded World War Two...
Regrouting blackened bathroom tiles; filling out a commercial tax return; cleaning the mouldering leaves out of a clogged storm drain; grudgingly buying a birthday gift for a racist aunt; reviewing The Super Mario Galaxy Movie… All things that slumber in the dismal depths of your...
The inner lives of buildings and institutions provide an intriguing and enlivening way of looking at the modern landscape, particularly through film. Just as human beings have personal histories that cause their bodies and minds to change over the course...
If you ever find yourself wandering the streets of east London on a Friday night, maybe a few virgin Sea Breezes into your evening, you’ll likely see someone unironically sporting the scorpion jacket that Ryan Gosling wore in Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011...
When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more than a bit of valuable IP, and the pressure to turn standalone stories into franchises, regardless of their suitability, has never...
Channeling the spirits of movies like Mean Girls and The Craft, Forbidden Fruits follows a group of young women working at a mall as they fight over group control, seek belonging, and experiment with withcraft. It’s a whimsical send-up of mall life where a coven operates out of a hip...
The sci-fi subgenre of “ordinary man with remarkable but niche skill set ends up reluctantly saving the world” somehow still finds fertile ground in 2026 – perhaps the triumph of the charming nerd is as sure as death and taxes....
Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness over revenge, and an earnest belief in the innate collective goodness of humanity. He explores these subjects via epic fantastical...
Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially a glorified anthology film. But oh, how glorious its sights and sounds truly are. The writer/director’s follow-up to 2018’s 3D spectacular...
