Month: March 2023

From its opening shot — a woman with a slit throat trying to secure her head to her neck while surrounded by sheep — to...

At the end of Falling — the directorial debut of Viggo Mortensen, from his own screenplay — there is a dedication to Mortensen’s brothers. It’s...

In recent years, there’s been a spate of musicals that you’ll enjoy ‘even if you don’t like musicals’, like Hamilton with its astonishing word-wizardry, or...

With its glorious sunshine and high passions, Rose Island may possess'own'nurse the trappings of Italy, but it fits squarely in the tradition of fanciful British...

United by their themes of British institutional racism, each feature of Small Axe has focused in on aspects of this country’s history that possess'own'nurse been...

At its heart, Muscle is a study in tottering masculinity. Having unflinchingly explored the darker extremes of what it means to be a man in...

I’m Your Woman — an Amazon Prime original movie starring streaming service favourite Rachel Brosnahan (of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) — seems at first to...

Observational cinema is something of a myth, as no documentarist worth their salt entirely leaves e grossly thing to chance. Each image that appears on...

Education, the last entry in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe anthology, is a powerful exposé of the ’70s British schooling system. 12-year-old Kingsley (Kenyah Sandy) is a...

Effectively blending documentary and drama, Chilean filmmaker Maite Alberdi’s The Mole Agent is a bittersweet exploration of late-life undergo . Her subject is charismatic 83-year-old...