For a moment, The Call was intended to be a television series, and in some ways it still feels as if it would work brilliantly in that medium. At the heart of it is Jordan [...]

Bradley Cooper’s version of A Star is Born is the third Hollywood remake of the 1937 original, following on from George Cukor’s 1956 adaptation, starring Judy Garland, [...]

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence is the third film in Roy Andersson’s trilogy about the human condition, following on from Songs from the Second Floor and [...]

In some ways, Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale plays like a spiritual sequel to The Cabin in the Woods, deconstructing neo-noir in the same way that Cabin [...]

Few figures have been explored in so many ways in British popular culture as Winston Churchill, to the point where Churchill often seems to have become a cipher for British [...]

Just as John Wick drew from gaming as much as cinema, so John Wick: Chapter 2 feels like a gaming sequel as much as a film sequel – a broader, more expansive, and more [...]

Damien Chazelle’s latest film is a study of Neil Armstrong in the years before the moon landing, but it’s not quite accurate to describe it as a biopic, since there is [...]

While Bart Layton’s first film, The Imposter, was technically a documentary, it often seemed to blur the lines between fictional and non-fictional film making, not simply [...]

Few American minority groups pose such challenges to representation as Chinese-Americans. On the one hand, Chinese-Americans have suffered systemic racism from the moment [...]

While Andrew Bujalski’s films might have departed, in some ways, from the mumblecore aesthetic that he pioneered with Funny Ha Ha, they haven’t ever quite left the [...]