In 2014, Jennifer Peedom went to Nepal to film a documentary about the working conditions of Sherpas assisting Westerners to scale Everest. While she was actually shooting at [...]

How would Al Pacino look in a sitcom? That’s the question posed by Author! Author!, an early 80s comedy that sees the former Michael Corleone reimagined as Ivan Travalian, [...]

No director quite captured the spirit of the 80s like Paul Schrader. While the decade is often associated with excess, extravagance and high camp, underneath it all was a [...]

As the second biopic about Steve Jobs in as many years, it’s inevitable that Steve Jobs should play out as a conscious revision of the Apple mythology promulgated by [...]

While drone warfare may play a central role in the contemporary military landscape, it’s proved remarkably resistant to representation within anything resembling a [...]

Alone in the Dark tends to get less attention than most of the other films to come out of the early 80s slasher craze. In part, that’s because it doesn’t quite have the [...]

From a distance, Jacques Audiard’s Palme d’Or-winning film looks like social realism. For one thing, it’s a film about immigration – in this case, from Sri Lanka to [...]

  Sometimes the best horror films seem to elude the classification of horror altogether, or at least make you question exactly what it is that distinguishes horror from [...]

I almost didn’t see The Daughter, Simon Stone’s first feature as film director after a long stint at the Belvoir. From a distance, it looked like exactly the kind of [...]

Every year at the Cannes Film Festival there are a handful of French titles that seem to get less press and less distribution than the rest of the lineup. While there are [...]