A creatively challenged writer-director is writing a screenplay about a creatively challenged writer-director in an entertaining self-reflexive experiment from the Spanish great that feels like a ...

Loosely based on Claude Chabrol’s psychological thriller The Unfaithful Wife, Zvyagintsev’s story of a CEO under personal and professional pressure doubles as a potent reflection on corruption in ...

Pete Ohs’ airy exploration of desire, travel and self-mythology feels like Premium-Class Mumblecore, starring Charli xcx as a restless British tourist hoping to reconnect with someone from her past.

This is the pass that Emeric Pressburger – later half of Powell and Pressburger – used to access the screening theatre at Germany’s biggest film studio, just before he fled Berlin in the early 1930s.

The young director’s feature-length version of his YouTube shorts stays true to its creepypasta origins, turning a wasteland of cheap furniture into an infinite hellscape that entraps the viewer along ...

Since the pandemic, for me anyway, it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death. Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain ...

As we celebrate the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, let’s start by examining something I’ll call the ‘Marilyn moment’. That’s the one that makes you set aside everything else – and with Marilyn, ...

Emerging from the communist theatre movement in post-Partition Bengal, Ritwik Kumar Ghatak became one of cinema’s most radical voices and the conscience of his time. Ghatak’s influence on South Asian ...

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