A family is a fragile thing too often taken for granted, and once the love is gone it’s very hard to bring back. A Common Story has an unusual gimmick: it is about a family, but the child hardly features. For she has grown up and gone off to university, …
Wu Ying is well on his way on the Thousand Li Journey. He has moved from being an outer sect member to an inner sect member in just a few short months. Now he has to keep working on his cultivation and choose a secondary occupation. The options are many …
The first thing I liked about this movie was its title. The 1953 ascent of Everest has often been told as Edmund Hillary’s story, with the Sherpa who reached the summit beside him mentioned as the other guy in the photo. This film is called Tenzing. Not “Everest,” not “The …
Violet McGraw is one of Hollywood’s favorite new scream queens, having made a name for herself in the M3GAN franchise and The Curse of the Necklace alongside sister Madeleine. For her latest movie, the actress is putting her spin on Christmas with the holiday heist Double Trouble. Violet and Madeleine …
This was a press event sponsored by HBO, hosted by Mallory Rubin from The Ringer, to celebrate the finale of Lanterns, therefore it may contain spoilers. All episodes of Lanterns are available on HBO and HBO Max now. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Moderator: Hello, everyone. …
Some will debate the pertinence of a movie starting with a quote, but I found myself particularly amused by how Rob Savage’s Other Mommy begins with a line attributed to Aynar of Erebus, stating, “A chance to be human, the miracle that we mistake for the ordinary, is coveted by …
Sometimes it feels like modern technology has given us the worst of both worlds. We have the capacity to be constantly connected with our loved ones no matter where in the world we may be. This can provide the illusion that we are in the same place as those we …
This review of season 4 of Ted Lasso will include spoilers. Please be advised! As news of season 4 of Ted Lasso began to take shape, people had questions. Jason Sudeikis had said that he only envisioned three seasons for the series, and despite the clamoring from the fans, he …
Hamlet is an Everest, as director Richard Eyre (Johnny Flynn) announces to his assembly of actors early on in Elsinore, Simon Stone’s film opening the London Film Festival. The title role alone has 4167 lines. Mounting a production at the National Theatre of Great Britain’s Olivier Theatre, which seats 1100, …
The camera never stops moving in Joko Anwar’s thrilling Ghost in the Cell. It moves and moves and moves and moves until it hits us with a sequence of gore so extreme, so visceral, that it will likely put off viewers who thought this genre offering would be more sophisticated. …
The action will be great, and I’ll forgive the story. That’s been the deal with Sam Hargrave (Extraction) since his directing debut. Back in 2020, I stopped the first Extraction mid-viewing just to go back and watch its oner again. The 21-minute oner in Extraction 2 is still something I’d …
I almost skipped this one. The press screening for The Social Reckoning was early in the morning, I was exhausted, and a follow-up to The Social Network without David Fincher (Se7en) directing or Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain) playing Mark Zuckerberg didn’t sound urgent enough to drag myself out of …
So this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a bunch of French politicians arguing with each other in a meeting room. As France grapples with the new world order, where America is no longer an ally and Russia is very much worse, its art has …
The language – and structure – of animated films needs to be reinvented within Hollywood. Stale stories are unfortunately plaguing our screens, despite formal inventiveness at almost every turn. Hollywood has released plenty of great animated offerings this year, but has any given the audience something truly different? Hoppers was …
The new HBO series War from creator George Kay feels like it’s doing for the inner workings of high-powered law offices what Succession did for the inner workings of media companies. By taking on a high profile divorce between a social media mogul and an actress, we get a look …
Steven Spielberg is, inarguably, one of America’s most recognizable filmmakers in cinema history. This is not always indicative of a particular level of quality. We have all talked about the auteur theory to death, but all levels of talent can be recognized by visual style. Visuals are not the only …
Quentin Dupieux is not only an electronic musician (who earned a UK number one back in 1999) but also the finest surrealist filmmaker of our times. To say his movies are unpredictable, illogical, ridiculous and violent is an understatement. But their wildness and their misbehaviour has the feel of ordinary …
It was notable at this year’s Cannes how many movies re-examined France and the Second World War. It’s been obvious for some years now how the French film industry has been retelling its own stories and creating blockbusters for home audiences without caring too much about how they’ll land overseas. …
Director Marshall Curry is a veteran in the filmmaking industry. He is a four-time Academy Award nominee. Curry received two nominations for Best Documentary Feature with Street Fight and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front. Another of his nominations was for Best Documentary Short Subject …
Tin Castle aka Irish Travellers is the very rare documentary worth seeing for its cinematography. Unfortunately the cinematography is the best thing about the film. Director Alexander Murphy also shot the film and some of its images are among the most surprisingly beautiful that have ever been captured in a …