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The 20 best home entertainment releases of 2020

By David Jenkins

Our round-up of the year’s finest physical releases, some of which helped us through the dark times of lockdown.

Lars von Trier will return to TV for a third series of The Kingdom

By Charles Bramesco

The infamous Dane will shoot a third instalment of the his cult ’90s show set in a neurosurgery ward.

Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist holiday classic

By Brianna Zigler

Stanley Kubrick’s final film contains a thinly-veiled critique of the vulgar excess and materialism of Christmas.

Check out the winning entry to our El Camino creative brief

By Little White Lies

We set a bumper sticker design challenge inspired by the Breaking Bad spin-off movie.

Discover this early Samuel Fuller noir set in Tokyo’s criminal underworld

By Anton Bitel

House of Bamboo, one of the first American features to be shot in Japan, is as hard-boiled as they come.

The 25 best TV shows of 2020

By Emma Fraser

From Schitt’s Creek to The Last Dance, here are our favourite small-screen offerings from the past year.

Olivier Assayas is making an Irma Vep miniseries with Alicia Vikander

By Charles Bramesco

The HBO show will be loosely based on the French director’s 1996 film, with Vikander in the Maggie Cheung role.

David Squires on… David Fincher’s Mank

By Little White Lies

Our resident cartoonist offers his take on the creation of one of most notorious screenplays ever written.

Making sense of Disney’s deluge of new content announcements

By Charles Bramesco

A staggering number of upcoming projects were revealed this week, set to be rolled out over the next decade.

Steven Soderbergh has written a sequel to Sex, Lies, and Videotape

By Charles Bramesco

Andie MacDowell and Laura San Giacomo would reprise their roles as neurotic sisters.

Deck the halls with the worst Christmas movies of all time

By Charles Bramesco

You may want to sharpen up that eggnog, it’s going to be a bumpy sleigh ride...

Paul WS Anderson’s Monster Hunter sparks racism controversy in China

By Charles Bramesco

The director has apologised, but his film remains virtually banned in the country’s major market.

Legendary is preparing legal action over Warner Bros’ HBO Max gambit

By Charles Bramesco

The production company say they were only given short notice of the distributor’s major announcement last week.

Polytechnique remains a harrowing portrayal of violent misogyny

By Anton Bitel

Denis Villeneuve’s third feature, which respectfully dramatises a real-life school shooting, remains tragically relevant.

The action-horror hybrid that took Asia Extreme to a whole new level

By James Balmont

Ryûhei Kitamura’s frenetic, crazily-ambitious cult favourite is low-brow filmmaking at its mind-boggling best.

An auteur and his flying machine: Brewster McCloud at 50

By Saffron Maeve

Robert Altman’s long-overlooked satire reflects the director’s frustrations with the Hollywood studio system.

Muscle is a fearless exercise in deconstructing on-screen masculinity

By Christina Newland

Gerard Johnson’s genre-defying latest tosses class, sexuality and body image into a pungent stew.

What’s gained and lost by the HBO Max-Warner Brothers deal?

By Hannah Strong

With the studio announcing a landmark streaming deal for its 2021 slate, it once again falls to audiences to “save cinema”.

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