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The rumble is on in the trailer for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story

By Charles Bramesco

Ansel Elgort and newcomer Rachel Zegler lead the director’s delayed remake of the hot-blooded musical.

David Squires on…. What to expect at the 93rd Academy Awards

By Little White Lies

Our resident cartoonist preview’s this year’s star-studded (and Covid-safe) ceremony.

Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are making a series about Christianity

By Charles Bramesco

The “three-year” series will dramatise the little-adapted ‘Apocrypha’, the excised sections of the Bible.

The mind-blowing legacy of David Cronenberg’s Scanners

By David Robb

The director’s 1981 body horror feels increasingly relevant in our age of technological dependency.

Anime Yasuke mixes African history with fantasy thrills

By Kambole Campbell

LeSean Thomas’ six-part animated series is an electrifying vision of a long-ignored legend.

The trailer for Leos Carax’s musical Annette has arrived at long last

By Charles Bramesco

The Sparks-scored film, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, will premiere at Cannes in July.

The radical queer politics and bittersweet legacy of Tomboy

By Ariel Klinghoffer

Céline Sciamma’s LGBTQ+ themed second feature found itself at the centre of a political storm in France.

Barry Jenkins hits the small screen with The Underground Railroad trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In the director’s ambitious Amazon miniseries, the network for escaped slaves takes on a more literal form.

Jim Jarmusch has directed a new short film for Saint Laurent

By Charles Bramesco

Julianne Moore, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Indya Moore appear in the nine-minute experiment.

Discover this medieval monster movie inspired by Army of Darkness

By Anton Bitel

Jordan Downey’s fantasy revenge horror The Head Hunter pays homage to Sami Raimi’s Evil Dead series.

Zack Snyder unleashes zombie chaos in the Army of the Dead trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Dave Batuista leads the crack squad of criminals boosting Las Vegas amidst waves of the undead.

A new film explores what it means to be queer in Kenya today

By Yassine Senghor

Director Peter Murimi discusses capturing the experience of a young gay man in I Am Samuel.

Discover the fast-paced thrills of this hard-boiled Euro crime drama

By Anton Bitel

Based on real events, Sergio Martino’s Silent Action from 1975 is as cynical as it is uncompromising.

Why shouldn’t Black British actors play Americans?

By Silva Chege

Criticism of Daniel Kaluuya’s role in Judas and the Black Messiah only serves to divide the diaspora.

The Lure director sets English-language debut with Silent Twins

By Charles Bramesco

In Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s latest, Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance play sisters with an unusual bond.

Angelina Jolie fights fires in the trailer for Those Who Wish Me Dead

By Charles Bramesco

She ventures into the wilds of Montana for writer/director Taylor Sheridan’s latest neo-western.

Is the fate of UK film being determined by an algorithm?

By Daisy Bata

Our investigation into the government’s Culture Recovery Fund has found evidence of automated cultural elitism.

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