There’s an endearing auteur-amateur nexus to found footage horror. Aspiring film directors often can’t realise their visions due to budgetary constraints or a lack of [...]

Hard Truths is the work of a master operating at full capacity. Like most of Mike Leigh’s other films it revolves around a collection of lower-middle class characters. In [...]

Edward Berger’s Conclave feels like a throwback to two distinct 90s modes: the mid-budget adult thriller and the corporate Vatican thriller. It’s about a papal conclave [...]

The working title of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindnesses was And. In some ways, that was a more apposite title, since this anthology comedy is obsessed with one of the [...]

The Apprentice, Ali Abbasi’s first film in English, is a dramatisation of the formative friendship between Donald Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, and power broker Roy [...]

Marcello Mio is a bit of an unusual entry in this year’s Cannes selection. On the one hand, it’s clearly there as a legacy inclusion and as reflection of the [...]

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film, Parthenope, is one of the most alluring of his career – and that’s really saying something. It’s about a young woman, the Parthenope [...]

There’s something profoundly paradoxical about the way that social activism often plays out on social media. More and more, influencers are using their platforms to draw [...]

Ever since Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola has been chasing the auteurist high of creating one of the most groundbreaking films in cinematic history. He almost achieved [...]

The last two episodes of The X-Files, “3” and “One Breath” were both quite anomalous, dealing as they did with Scully’s abduction and near death. “Firewalker” [...]