Posts by Charles Bramesco

Green Border review – brilliant and tense

By Charles Bramesco

A stirring depiction of the refugee situation in Europe, as Syrians fleeing war face harrowing interrogation at the Polish-Belarusian border.

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Universal Language – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

The clashing cultures of Canada and Iran are fused in Matthew Rankin’s dryly comic follow-up to The Twentieth Century.

The New Boy review – an ambitious undertaking by one of Australia’s best

By Charles Bramesco

A young arrival at an Australian nunnery begins to exhibit unusual powers in Warwick Thornton's fantastical drama.

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Monster review – heartfelt and likably earnest

By Charles Bramesco

The relationship between two young schoolboys has ramifications for their local community in the new drama from Hirokazu Koreeda.

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The Curse is Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s unsettling suburban house of mirrors

By Charles Bramesco

Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone star as an unscrupulous property developing couple who find themselves cursed by a small child in this A24 and Showtime collaboration.

Janet Planet – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Annie Baker's debut feature about a mother and daughter is magical and assured drama that announces the Pulitzer Prize winner as a filmmaking talent as well as a literary one.

Green Border – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Veteran filmmaker Agnieszka Holland offers a stirring, stark depiction of the refugee situation in Europe, as Syrians fleeing war face harrowing interrogation at the Polish-Belarusian border.

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Raven Jackson's feature debut announces a striking visual talent, following the story of a young woman's life in rural Mississippi.

Reptile review – less “whodunit”, more “who cares?”

By Charles Bramesco

Music video mainstay Grant Singer makes the leap to features with this real estate-based detective thriller, but the results are disappointingly underwhelming.

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Boy Kills World – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

A deaf-mute young man swears revenge on the group that murdered his family in Moritz Mohr's bloodthirsty but tedious directorial debut.

Poolman – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

There’s a whole lot of Chinatown in Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman, an Angeleno neo-noir with a script that gives Robert Towne more than fair grounds to sue for damages.

Woman of the Hour – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, about a abused upstart actress and a serial killer in her midst, says all the right things, but too loud and too often.

War Pony

By Charles Bramesco

Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s debut feature focuses on two Oglala Lakota teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.

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Sydney Sweeney: ‘I’ve always felt that my duty is to my characters, and to my work’

By Charles Bramesco

The star of Tina Satter's whistleblowing drama Reality speaks about the challenges of playing a real person and the concept of the modern movie star.

The New Boy – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Warwick Thornton’s spiritually-inclined Outback drama sees a nameless aboriginal boy face off against Cate Blanchett’s anxiety-prone nun.

The Sweet East – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Talia Ryder stars as a high school student who becomes embroiled in various precarious situations on the east coast of America in Sean Price Williams' feature debut.

Monster – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest, scored by the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, is a dense, shape-shifting drama that grows more scattered as it progresses.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: ‘You just try to live in a way that minimises your reprehensibility’

By Charles Bramesco

The team behind the explosive eco-thriller How to Blow Up A Pipeline reflect on the nature of activism, living under capitalism and spurring audiences out of inertia.

The Director’s Fortnight and Critic’s Week sidebars bolster a packed Cannes

By Charles Bramesco

Films from Michel Gondry, Manoel de Oliveira, and a slew of newcomers will play alongside the Official Selection announced last week.

Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Glazer, and Wes Anderson lead the 2023 Cannes Film Festival lineup

By Charles Bramesco

The Competition selection also includes new works from Catherine Breillat and Todd Haynes.

Cairo Conspiracy

By Charles Bramesco

Tarik Saleh’s latest sees the election of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most prestigious university for Islamic scholarship.

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Life is plastic and fantastic in the first Barbie trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie dons a great many outfits as the iconic children’s plaything in Greta Gerwig's technicolour dreamland.

Scott Pilgrim is back in action, now in anime form

By Charles Bramesco

The cast of Edgar Wright's film adaptation has reunited for a Netflix miniseries about the mild-mannered, ex-dueling Torontonian.

Everything we know so far about Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City

By Charles Bramesco

Spanish desert doubles for the American Southwest in the new film set at a stargazers' convention.

The solution to cinema’s curation conundrum? More, more, more

By Charles Bramesco

Are streaming channels limiting our movie selection? Only as much as we let them!

A Good Person

By Charles Bramesco

Auteur Zach Braff puts then-girlfriend Florence Pugh through it in the opioid-addiction drama.

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Everyone, just let Quentin Tarantino cook

By Charles Bramesco

Is his new film about a movie critic a stealth Pauline Kael biopic? Maybe! Who knows?

A brief history of the “legacy Oscar” and its winners

By Charles Bramesco

Some voters informally consider the Academy Award a career-long acknowledgement; some actors resent this.

Croisette wishes: 20 films we’d like to see at Cannes in 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and Pedro Almodóvar number among the heavy hitters expected on the red carpet.

It’s time for action in the explosive first trailer for How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By Charles Bramesco

A cross-cultural coalition plots to disrupt an oil supply chain in Daniel Goldhaber's galvanizing new film.

Hong Sang-soo gets lost in the funhouse in the first Walk Up trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The Korean filmmaker's latest drama climbs through the floors of an apartment building and finds pockets of quotidian life.

Eli Roth will expand the spoof trailer Thanksgiving into a full-length feature

By Charles Bramesco

It's the third mock teaser from the genre homage Grindhouse to become a full-fledged film.

Broker

By Charles Bramesco

Hirokazu Koreeda's latest tale of found families focuses on an illegal South Korean adoption scheme, run by two grifters with hearts of gold.

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Barry Keoghan-mania will continue with a Billy the Kid biopic

By Charles Bramesco

He'll offer a humanized, revisionist take on the gunslinger of repute in his longstanding dream project.

Paul King has signed on to direct the Tom Holland-starring Fred Astaire biopic

By Charles Bramesco

At long last, the promise of the "Umbrella" lip-sync video shall be delivered upon.

The Spirited Away stage play is coming to American cinemas

By Charles Bramesco

This spring, audiences unable to attend the Japanese production will behold the live-action magnificence of the radish spirit.

Netflix will make inroads into French film by partnering with Cinémathèque Française

By Charles Bramesco

France has been resistant to the streaming barbarians at the gates, but that may be starting to change.

Jake Gyllenhaal takes on the Taliban in the first trailer for The Covenant

By Charles Bramesco

In Guy Ritchie's new thriller, a soldier must fight his way through Afghanistan to rescue the interpreter who saved his life.

Want to see a new movie for a pound?

By Charles Bramesco

In an unusual distribution scheme, Marcus Markou's film The Wife and Her House Husband can be seen in cinemas for a quid.

Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar-nominated role is just one part of a banner year

By Charles Bramesco

Her turns in Please Baby Please, Matilda, and even Amsterdam show off a chameleonic range.

Glasgow Film Festival has lined up a cavalcade of premieres for 2023

By Charles Bramesco

Adura Onashile's debut Girl will open the fest, and Nida Manzoor's Polite Society will close it out.

Everything Everywhere All At Once leads the pack of nominations for an unpredictable Oscars

By Charles Bramesco

All Quiet on the Western Front and the Banshees of Inisherin also came up big in this morning's announcement.

The Berlin Film Fest’s 2023 lineup includes Christian Petzold, Hong Sang-soo

By Charles Bramesco

President Kristen Stewart will also pass judgement on films by Matt Johnson and Angela Schanelec.

With the 21st-century period piece, cinema writes the history books

By Charles Bramesco

Films like Uncut Gems, Hustlers, and Lady Bird help us make sense of a modern past.

Puberty is an adventure in the Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The Edge of Seventeen director Kelly Fremon Craig returns to the travails of adolescent girlhood.

For Francis Ford Coppola, a production off the rails is right on track

By Charles Bramesco

His comeback picture Megalopolis has been marred by high-profile snafus — not that we'd expect anything less.

Composer Michael Giacchino will turn director with a remake of sci-fi classic Them!

By Charles Bramesco

The Oscar-winning musician is planning a fresh take on the 1954 killer-ant B-picture.

LWLies’ favourite line readings of 2022

By Charles Bramesco

Our writers choose their favourite snippets of dialogue from this year's cinematic offerings, from the absurd to the hysterical.

Michelle Williams just needs some hot water in the first Showing Up trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She plays a frustrated artist preparing for a show in Kelly Reichardt's wry, downbeat comedy.

Pay your way out of death in the trailer for Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool

By Charles Bramesco

Alexander Skarsgård and Mia Goth star in the thriller set at a resort hiding an underside of depravity.

Wes Anderson’s new film Asteroid City will hit Earth in an early-summer release date

By Charles Bramesco

With a theatrical run scheduled for June, a premiere at Cannes seems all but assured.

A new short film from Alice Rohrwacher is getting a release through Disney+

By Charles Bramesco

The 37-minute Le Pupille joins a group of rebellious youngsters spending the holidays at their boarding school.

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig face the apocalypse in the White Noise trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The world lurches toward a postmodern end in Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's essential novel.

Channing Tatum gyrates back into our hearts in the trailer for Magic Mike’s Last Dance

By Charles Bramesco

Steven Soderbergh directs the third installment of the male-stripping saga as Mike brings his talents to London.

Brendan Fraser is a man transformed in the first trailer for The Whale

By Charles Bramesco

In the new film from Darren Aronofsky, Fraser portrays an obese recluse ready for one last chance at redemption.

Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael have written another original musical film

By Charles Bramesco

The songwriting legends behind Annette will grace the silver screen again with the mysterious X Crucior.

Neptune Frost

By Charles Bramesco

A group of coltan miners form an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman's Afrofuturist musical.

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Two Tilda Swintons enter Johanna Hogg’s haunted house in the Eternal Daughter trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Swinton plays a Hogg stand-in as well as her mother in the atmospheric not-quite-horror picture.

Remembering Jules Bass, stop-motion pioneer and creator of Christmas wonder

By Charles Bramesco

Deceased at 87, he and partner Arthur Rankin reigned as kings over midcentury Yuletide nostalgia.

Barbarian

By Charles Bramesco

A holiday rental turns into a nightmare for a young woman in Zach Cregger's horror debut.

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Ticket to Paradise

By Charles Bramesco

George Clooney and Julia Roberts take to Bali in a hollow-hearted reminder of why the modern romcom is in decline.

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A coalition of actors wants to change how Hollywood sees hair

By Charles Bramesco

Fronted by Kerry Washington, Zoe Kravitz, and Rosario Dawson, the CROWN Act forbids discrimination against natural hair.

Personality Crisis: One Night Only — first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen takes the stage in Martin Scorsese's latest music doc.

Radical artist Nan Goldin takes on opioid barons in the All the Beauty and the Bloodshed trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Laura Poitras' documentary chronicles Goldin's campaign of grassroots activism against the Sackler family.

A Cooler Climate – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

James Ivory reminisces about a youthful year spent in Afghanistan with this cozy archival documentary.

Pope of trash John Waters will return to directing with an adaptation of his own novel

By Charles Bramesco

Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance marks Waters' first time behind the camera in 18 years.

Mutzenbacher – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Ruth Beckermann enlists a hundred men to read passages from the controversial 19th century novel Josefine Mutzenbacher: The Life Story of a Viennese Whore.

Coma — first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Bertrand Bonello's bouncing off the walls in this free-associative grab-bag of early lockdown anxieties.

What is Luca Guadagnino adding to his extended cut of A Bigger Splash?

By Charles Bramesco

The director's cut, titled An Even Bigger Splash, will restore 70 minutes of footage cut from the film. To what effect?

Timothée Chalamet chows down in the first Bones and All trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He and Taylor Russell play lovestruck teen cannibals in the latest from Luca Guadagnino.

Smile

By Charles Bramesco

Parker Finn’s debut redeems the Trauma Horror movie with ferocious focus and demented humour.

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Answer the door, it’s the first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin

By Charles Bramesco

The suspense master's latest is a horror twofer — a home-invasion film and an apocalypse film.

Strawberry Mansion

By Charles Bramesco

A dream auditor becomes caught up with an ageing eccentric in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney's highly imaginative feature.

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No one can be trusted in the first trailer for Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave

By Charles Bramesco

A cop investigating a murder in a wind-swept mountain town falls for the victim's widow in the Cannes prize-winner.

A Jazzman’s Blues – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Tyler Perry tries his hand at serious-minded filmmaking with this overwrought Deep South melodrama.

Be a mensch and take a look at the first Armageddon Time trailer, would you?

By Charles Bramesco

Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, and Jeremy Strong guide one boy's coming-of-age in James Gray's latest.

Saddle up for Walter Hill’s return to the Western in the Dead for a Dollar trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz cross paths in pursuit of a wayward woman with designs of her own.

Guy Maddin is bringing a new augmented-reality project to London Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

He's leading today's wave of announcements concerning the 'LFF Expanded' programme of immersive art forms.

Albert Serra wishes you were here in the tropical trailer for Pacifiction

By Charles Bramesco

French Tahiti becomes a picturesque purgatory for a colonialist official in Serra's panoramic latest.

Don’t lose your lunch at the first trailer for the puke-flecked Triangle of Sadness

By Charles Bramesco

Male models, a massive cruise liner, and a whole lot of vomit herald the coming of Ruben Östlund's latest.

A friendship ends with severed fingers in The Banshees of Inisherin’s first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Brendan Gleeson torches his longtime relationship with Colin Farrell in Martin McDonagh's new dramedy.

Bullet Train

By Charles Bramesco

An unlucky assassin finds himself on the commute from hell in director David Leitch’s irritating action-thriller.

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Fame devours Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe in the first Blonde trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Andrew Dominik's long-awaited not-quite-biopic adapts Joyce Carol Oates' novel for Netflix.

The wooden boy comes to life again in the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

By Charles Bramesco

There's a darker edge to the classic kiddie fable in this stop-motion take with a starry voice cast.

The Venice Film Festival unveils a jam-packed lineup for 2022

By Charles Bramesco

The Lido will be perfectly happy to host the buzzy Netflix films banned from Cannes.

A cavalcade of big names have been tipped for a stuffed Venice Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

Luca Guadagnino, Andrew Dominik, Olivia Wilde, and many others are rumored to be locks for the Lido.

A teen dropout suffers for his art in the first trailer for Funny Pages

By Charles Bramesco

Owen Kline's debut film takes us into the scuzziest corners of New Jersey in search of inspiration.

Fantasy collides with insanity in the first The Silent Twins trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance star in this dramatisation of June and Jennifer Gibbons’ strange life story.

Amy Winehouse is the latest star to get the Hollywood biopic treatment

By Charles Bramesco

Will audiences say ‘no, no, no’ to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s upcoming film?

A new season at the BFI Southbank showcases the marvels of Afrofuturism

By Charles Bramesco

In the Black Fantastic explores racial identity through mythology, science-fiction, and the supernatural.

The first trailer for David O. Russell’s Amsterdam catches stars in a national mystery

By Charles Bramesco

Margot Robbie, John David Washington, and Christian Bale lead as a trio of friends caught in a murder case.

The BIFAs look to the future by introducing gender-neutral acting categories

By Charles Bramesco

Gender isn't binary, and awards programs ought to reflect that simple truth.

Andrew Haigh’s upcoming Strangers makes lovers of Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal

By Charles Bramesco

As the two men form a unique bond, Scott's haunted by the memory of his long-deceased parents.

Lars von Trier checks in for another stay in The Kingdom with the first Exodus trailer

By Charles Bramesco

His TV series set within a hospital coursing with malevolent energy is back for another series.

The BFI’s new Film on Film Festival is a celluloid fetishist’s dream

By Charles Bramesco

The 2023 proceedings will feature a bevy of classics projected on good ol’ 35mm, 16mm, and 70mm.

A sheltered girl gets some hands-on sex education in the Sharp Stick trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Kristine Froseth seduces a married Jon Bernthal in the new erotic comedy from Lena Dunham.

Kevin Costner’s new project Horizon will now be four interconnected movies

By Charles Bramesco

Scheduled for release in three-month intervals, the films are currently casting 170 speaking roles.

Sean Durkin will square off with Zac Efron for a homespun wrestling tragedy

By Charles Bramesco

A dramatization of the sad events that befell the Von Erich family will follow Durkin's acclaimed The Nest.

Harry Styles is the long arm of the law in the first My Policeman trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He portrays one of three characters followed through decades, their lives charting 20th-century upheavals.

The Predator franchise goes back to an uncolonized America in the first Prey trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In the not-yet-ravaged Comanche Nation, an expert hunter faces a seemingly unstoppable extraterrestrial foe.

Broker – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

A woman who leaves her infant son in a Busan “baby box” finds an unexpected family in Hirokazu Koreeda’s tender drama.

Fogo Fatuo – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

A man on his deathbed recounts his youth as a firefighter in João Pedro Rodrigues’ striking queer feature.

H Jon Benjamin: ‘When I’m Bob, I’m a hamburger cook and not a singer’

By Charles Bramesco

The man behind Bob’s Burgers talks about the show’s transition to the big screen for a murder mystery musical.

War Pony – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Gina Gammel and Riley Keough’s debut feature focuses on two Oglala Lakota teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.

Boy from Heaven – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

A power struggle begins after the death of the grand imam at a prestigious Cairo university in Tarik Saleh’s conventional drama.

David Cronenberg’s comeback continues as he sets up a deathly drama

By Charles Bramesco

Vincent Cassel will star in The Shrouds as an inventor who devises a method of speaking to the dead.

Father Stu

By Charles Bramesco

A skeptical amateur wrestler finds religion in writer/director Rosalind Ross’ uninspired biopic.

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Plug your ponytail into the first trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water

By Charles Bramesco

Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, and Edie Falco are among the additions to the sci-fi mega-franchise’s cast.

Martin Scorsese will narrate a documentary extolling Powell and Pressburger’s genius

By Charles Bramesco

The directorial duo known as The Archers gave the world resplendent visions of fantasy like Black Narcissus and The Red Shoes.

Florence Pugh and Harry Styles play house in the Don’t Worry Darling trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Olivia Wilde returns to the director’s chair for the upcoming psycho-thriller puncturing the idyll of ’50s suburbia.

Jerrod Carmichael braces for the end in the red-band On the Count of Three trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Christopher Abbott also stars in the dark comedy about a pair of friends in a suicide pact.

Alejandro González Iñárritu is taking his talents to Netflix

By Charles Bramesco

The upcoming BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths will get a global theatrical run before it goes online.

The first Bodies, Bodies, Bodies trailer is all fun and games until someone gets hurt

By Charles Bramesco

Amandla Stenberg, Lee Pace, Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, and Rachel Sennott star in the Gen-Z-fluent horror film.

Martin Scorsese’s Film Foundation is launching a virtual screening room for classic films

By Charles Bramesco

The new service will be free to all, showing choice cuts from Fellini, Huston, and many others.

Take a look at Cartoon Saloon’s new animated feature My Father’s Dragon

By Charles Bramesco

The new film from the studio behind Song of the Sea and Wolfwalkers will be released by Netflix.

The trailer for Shin Ultraman keeps Japan at the top of the reboot game

By Charles Bramesco

While Hollywood strip-mines its own IP half to death, Toho Pictures is showing the world how franchising is done.

Kristen Stewart may or may not get swole for Rose Glass’ bodybuilding movie

By Charles Bramesco

She’s only been cast as the lover of Love Lies Bleeding’s musclebound protagonist... but still.

How Paul Verhoeven defies genre trappings with Benedetta

By Charles Bramesco

‘Nunspoiltation’ doesn’t quite cut it when it comes to the work of this fiendishly talented auteur.

The Assistant director Kitty Green will take to the Outback for her next film

By Charles Bramesco

The Royal Hotel reunites Green with star Julia Garner, who finds herself on the receiving end of toxic masculinity once again.

Robert Eggers: ‘This is me trying to do Conan the Barbarian by way of Andrei Rublev’

By Charles Bramesco

The visionary director of The Northman talks scaling up production, his love of Viking culture, and the perils of working with a flock of birds.

Iranian courts have found Asghar Farhadi guilty of plagiarism on A Hero

By Charles Bramesco

The ruling came in favor of Azadeh Masihzadeh, a former student of Farhadi’s, and her documentary All Winners All Losers.

Ethan Coen will go solo on a bawdy “lesbian road trip” movie

By Charles Bramesco

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood; one, to a black-and-white Macbeth adaptation, the other, to sexploitation homage.

Daniel Kaluuya will turn writer/producer for dystopian London thriller The Kitchen

By Charles Bramesco

The upcoming Netflix film takes place in the brutal, heavily stratified society of 2044.

A new Top Gun: Maverick trailer breaks through the sound barrier

By Charles Bramesco

Fighter jets, egos, legacies – they’re all up in the air in the next-gen sequel to the military action classic.

Panos Cosmatos will drag us back into insanity with his next film Nekrokosm

By Charles Bramesco

A24 will produce the sci-fi fantasy set within a "strange galaxy" where a hostile force threatens two lovers.

Who should star in the new West End production of The Shining?

By Charles Bramesco

All work and no play will make director Ivo van Hove and star Ben Stiller dull boys.

Scene Stealers: The fleet-footed opening of West Side Story

By Charles Bramesco

In our series examining the Best Picture contenders of 2022, a salute to the easy lyricism of Spielberg’s musical remake.

A handful of pre-announcements foretell a robust Cannes slate

By Charles Bramesco

A handful of big names — Elvis! George Miller! Tom Cruise! — have been locked in prior to the official selection.

The end is near in the first trailer for Gaspar Noé’s death drama Vortex

By Charles Bramesco

Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun play a couple in their lives’ waning days, staring down the great beyond.

The first trailer for Pleasure goes deep, deep inside LA’s porn industry

By Charles Bramesco

The debut feature from Ninja Thyberg has already raised eyebrows for its graphically depicted sex scenes.

The first trailer for Richard Linklater’s animated kid flick Apollo 10 1/2 has achieved liftoff

By Charles Bramesco

Jack Black, Glen Powell, and Zachary Levi lend their voices to the new rotoscoping project.

All aboard the first trailer for the high-speed shoot-’em-up Bullet Train

By Charles Bramesco

Brad Pitt stars in the gun-crazy action film from John Wick codirector David Leitch.

Quentin Tarantino saddles up for TV with a guest-directing gig on Justified

By Charles Bramesco

Tarantino last directed star Timothy Olyphant as a gunslinger in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood.

Bill Murray is set to star in Aziz Ansari’s directorial feature debut

By Charles Bramesco

The as-yet untitled film will adapt a 2014 non-fiction book rethinking end-of-life medical care.

The first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic features little conversation, more action

By Charles Bramesco

Austin Butler portrays the hip-swiveling, scandal-igniting rock-and-roll superstar in the new film.

Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas play cat and mouse in the Deep Water trailer

By Charles Bramesco

After a year and a half of delays, the erotic thriller renaissance is here at last care of director Adrian Lyne.

Alex Garland pivots into outright horror with the first trailer for Men

By Charles Bramesco

In the upcoming film, Jessie Buckley brings her grief to a solo holiday in the English countryside.

The 2022 Oscar nominations give cinephiles plenty of cause for optimism

By Charles Bramesco

The Academy voters shied away from the sort of film generally considered "awards bait" and instead went for critical darlings.

Peter Strickland takes a bite out of the haute cuisine world in the Flux Gourmet trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In the oddball film, Asa Butterfield joins a musical collective using food for unusual, visceral performance art pieces.

New website Missing Movies is compiling a listing of non-streaming classics

By Charles Bramesco

Digital platforms would have us believe the history of cinema is all at our fingertips – not so.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

By Charles Bramesco

Jessica Chastain transforms into the opulent yet controversial ​Tammy Faye Messner in Michael Showalter’s customary biopic.

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Moonfall

By Charles Bramesco

Disaster artist Roland Emmerich pits a team of astronauts against the moon in his latest schlockbuster offering.

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Jacques Audiard captures the poetry of urban life in the Paris, 13th District trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Céline Sciamma coauthored the script, which reunites her with Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Noémie Merlant.

The first trailer for After Yang welcomes an android into the family

By Charles Bramesco

Kogonada’s well-received second feature brings Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner-Smith a robotic son/helper.

Steve Ellison preps his sophomore feature with sci-fi/horror mindbender Ash

By Charles Bramesco

The musical polymath known as Flying Lotus and Captain Murphy is readying his follow-up to body horror extravaganza Kuso.

Josephine Decker pivots to YA lite in the trailer for The Sky Is Everywhere

By Charles Bramesco

The writer-director puts her experimental bent to one side as she adapts a teen-favorite novel of love and loss.

Bong Joon-ho has lined up Robert Pattinson for his next sci-fi epic

By Charles Bramesco

The new film loosely adapts Mickey7, a to-be-released novel about a clone colonizing an ice-world.

Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road

By Charles Bramesco

Rolling Stone editor Jason Fine pootles around California with the Beach Boys legend in Brent Wilson's lacklustre documentary.

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See Sidney Poitier in rare behind-the-scenes photos from In the Heat of the Night

By Charles Bramesco

They’re part of Park Circus and MGM’s upcoming Poitier tribute, which includes screenings of the film.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi arranges a yearning triptych in Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy

By Charles Bramesco

The other half of the Japanese director’s 2021 double feature is coming to the UK at last.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

By Charles Bramesco

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand take on the most infamous power couple in literary history, care of Joel Coen.

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A ’70s porn shoot takes a bloody turn in the trailer for Ti West’s X

By Charles Bramesco

Mia Goth, Brittany Snow, and Scott Mescudi star in the throwback horrorshow.

Sizzling and well-done, the first trailer for The Bob’s Burgers Movie is here

By Charles Bramesco

A sinkhole threatens business in the long-running animation series’ first foray onto the big screen.

A virus tears through Russia in the eerily timely trailer for Petrov’s Flu

By Charles Bramesco

In the latest feature from Kirill Serebrennikov, a resurrected corpse is just one oddity in the surreal grab-bag.

Wes Anderson’s is making an other Roald Dahl adaptation for Netflix

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll direct The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar with Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role.

Peter Jackson will bring The Beatles’ famed rooftop concert to IMAX cinemas

By Charles Bramesco

The highlight sequence of the recent Get Back documentary will be seen as never before.

Steven Yeun: ‘I have a desire to play a humanity we can all access’

By Charles Bramesco

The in-demand Korean-American actor reflects on his role in Stephen Karam’s intimate ensemble drama The Humans.

The bovine life cycle makes for high drama in the first Cow trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Take an exclusive look at Andrea Arnold’s new documentary, in which life and death come to the barnyard.

Vikings unleash hell in the first trailer for Robert Eggers’ The Northman

By Charles Bramesco

Alexander Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicole Kidman, and Björk star in the 10th-century Icelandic epic.

Michelle Yeoh busts through the multiverse in Everything Everywhere All at Once

By Charles Bramesco

Swiss Army Man directors Daniels – Kwan and Scheinert – reteam for this suitably out-there follow-up.

Nicolas Cage plays himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Pedro Pascal plays an obsessive fan who draws the master thespian into a real-life shootout in the action-comedy.

George MacKay staves off World War Two in the Munich: The Edge of War trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The latter portrays Neville Chamberlain in this dramatisation of the 1938 Nazi appeasement in Munich.

C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix forms a close bond with a precocious whippersnapper in Mike Mills’ gentle family drama.

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Channing Tatum will make it rain in a third Magic Mike film

By Charles Bramesco

Steven Soderbergh will get back in the director's chair for Magic Mike's Last Dance.

Robert Greene: ‘This film is indictment of how the media portrays survivors’

By Charles Bramesco

The director discusses the complex ethics of his new documentary, Procession, which gives a voice to survivors of sexual abuse.

Martin Scorsese and Jonah Hill will team up on a Jerry Garcia biopic

By Charles Bramesco

The portrait of the Grateful Dead frontman will be Scorsese's next directing gig after Killers of the Flower Moon.

Ira Sachs’ next film will focus on a queer love triangle of European festival darlings

By Charles Bramesco

Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw play lovers driven apart when one of them has an affair with Adèle Exarchopoulos.

Sizing up this year’s submissions for the Best International Feature Oscar

By Charles Bramesco

Could this be Titane’s time to shine? Will Memoria make the cut? Or will Drive My Car cruise to victory?

Quentin Tarantino is getting into the NFT game

By Charles Bramesco

The director is set to auction off never-before-seen scenes from Pulp Fiction, containing ‘secret’ content.

A24 will stream Warwick Thornton’s “looping film” The Beach this Thanksgiving

By Charles Bramesco

The “continuous, week-long sensory experience” luxuriates in the tropical vibes of the Australian shore.

Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor will find love in a WWI-era romance

By Charles Bramesco

Two of the UK’s preeminent heartthrobs will pool their dreaminess as the leads of Oliver Hermanus’ upcoming film.

Asghar Farhadi weaves another tense drama in the first trailer for A Hero

By Charles Bramesco

The tale of redemption and prejudice won the Iranian director a Grand Prix at the Cannes premiere.

Survivors of the church reclaim their stories in the Procession trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The new documentary from Robert Greene uses dramatic reenactment to process trauma.

Aaron Sorkin goes behind the scenes of I Love Lucy in the Being the Ricardos trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director’s latest film stars Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.

Olivia Colman grapples with motherhood in The Lost Daughter trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She’s joined by Dakota Johnson and Jessie Buckley in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s outstanding directorial debut.

The Beatles make one last record in the Get Back documentary trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Peter Jackson's film unlocks a treasure trove of never-before-seen footage of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Ghostface has a new game for a new generation in the Scream trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In the first installment of the franchise sans Wes Craven, the masked killer returns to prey on another round of teens.

Peter Dinklage and a few musical numbers liven up a classic in the Cyrano trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The latest film from Joe Wright brings his signature theatricality to Rostand’s timeless romance.

Simon Rex is a dirtbag triumphant in the trailer for Sean Baker’s Red Rocket

By Charles Bramesco

He plays a washed-up porn star hungry for a second chance in this drama set around the Texan fringes.

C’mon C’mon – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Joaquin Phoenix and newcomer Woody Norman play uncle and nephew in Mike Mills’ tender drama about a family in flux.

Anne at 13,000 Feet

By Charles Bramesco

A nursery worker finds inner peace through skydiving in writer/director Kazik Radwanski’s invigorating character study.

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Joanna Hogg’s memoir goes meta in the first trailer for The Souvenir Part II

By Charles Bramesco

Honor Swinton-Byrne reprises her role as the writer/director’s on-screen avatar in the forthcoming sequel.

Paul Thomas Anderson takes us back in time with the Licorice Pizza trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In ’70s SoCal, a tentative romance blossoms between cool girl Alana Haim and newcomer Cooper Hoffman.

Întregalde – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Three aid workers are led on a detour through darkest Transylvania in Radu Muntean’s allegorical intergenerational drama.

The Tragedy of Macbeth – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Something Coen this way comes... Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand star in this innovative take on the Bard.

A new exhibition opens a window into Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

By Charles Bramesco

After seeing the sets, props and costumes from the film, visitors can stop at a Parisian-style café.

Kristen Stewart makes a run for it as Lady Di in the Spencer trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Her performance as Princess Diana has positioned Stewart as this year’s awards season front-runner.

An animated music video from The French Dispatch revives a pop classic

By Charles Bramesco

As “Tip-Top”, Jarvis Cocker performs a rendition of Christophe’s soaring ‘Aline’ in the Wes Anderson-directed clip.

Full of sound and fury, the first trailer for The Tragedy of Macbeth is here

By Charles Bramesco

Denzel Washington plays the Thane of Cawdor, and Frances McDormand is his scheming wife.

Time stops for love in the first trailer for The Worst Person in the World

By Charles Bramesco

Renate Reinsve won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for Joachim Trier’s multi-layered romance.

Cry Macho

By Charles Bramesco

At 91, Clint Eastwood delivers a low-slung neo-western charmer about an old dude taking one final shot at redemption.

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The carnival comes to town in the first trailer for Nightmare Alley

By Charles Bramesco

Step right up to see Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, and Rooney Mara in Guillermo del Toro’s period psychothriller!

Everything we know about Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director is returning to his SoCal roots for his hotly-anticipated next picture, which hit cinemas in November.

Gunpowder Milkshake

By Charles Bramesco

Karen Gillan leads an all-star squad of female contract assassins in Navot Papushado’s all-action misfire.

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Jessica Chastain goes all-out in Michael Showalter’s superficial biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner.

Neptune Frost – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman ponder post-colonisation in this percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical.

Christopher Nolan’s next film will recount the birth of the atomic bomb

By Charles Bramesco

Cillian Murphy is rumored to be playing famed inventor J Robert Oppenheimer in the director’s historical drama.

Neo jacks in and logs on once again in The Matrix Resurrections trailer

By Charles Bramesco

After nearly two decades, Lana Wachowski’s addendum to her cyberpunk classic is almost upon us.

Watch Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in the Don’t Look Up trailer

By Charles Bramesco

They’re part of an ensemble cast including Meryl Streep and Timothée Chalamet in Adam McKay’s climate change satire.

Joaquin Phoenix reads a bedtime story in the first trailer for C’mon C’mon

By Charles Bramesco

He looks after his precocious young nephew in writer/director Mike Mills’ tender family drama.

Jake Gyllenhaal races against time in the first trailer for The Guilty

By Charles Bramesco

Antoine Fuqua directs this remake of the hit Danish thriller about an emergency responder who receives a disturbing call.

Francis Ford Coppola is set to finish his long-delayed epic Megalopolis

By Charles Bramesco

He’s willing to fork out his own millions on a would-be cast of Oscar Isaac, Cate Blanchett and Forest Whitaker.

See the first trailer for Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground documentary

By Charles Bramesco

The acclaimed director of Velvet Goldmine eulogises the ’60s rock legends in his new film.

Benedict Cumberbatch is a dastardly cowpoke in The Power of the Dog trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He stars with Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons in the new Western from Jane Campion.

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu remake is a go, with Anya Taylor-Joy on board

By Charles Bramesco

She’ll play the ripe-necked victim of Orlok the vampire in the new take on FW Murnau’s Gothic classic.

Penélope Cruz knows best in the first trailer for Parallel Mothers

By Charles Bramesco

She and Milena Smit share a spiritual bond in the new film from Pedro Almodóvar.

Paolo Sorrentino revisits his childhood in The Hand of God trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In his upcoming work of loose autobiography for Netflix, a young man has a brush with greatness in ’80s Napoli.

Take a first look at Florence Pugh in period piece The Wonder

By Charles Bramesco

She’s headed to 19th-century Ireland for director Sebastián Lelio’s medical-intrigue drama.

Margot Robbie has joined the cast of Wes Anderson’s next film

By Charles Bramesco

She’ll appear alongside Tom Hanks, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray in the director’s mystery project set in Spain.

Jennifer Lawrence will play a Hollywood power agent for Paolo Sorrentino

By Charles Bramesco

The real-life Sue Mengers’ client list included Barbra Streisand, Cher and Michael Caine.

A 91-year-old Clint Eastwood keeps on keepin’ on in the Cry Macho trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The nonagenarian directs and stars in the pensive south-of-the-border western film.

Brendan Fraser has joined the cast of Martin Scorsese’s upcoming western

By Charles Bramesco

As well as Killers of the Flower Moon, he’s booked a role in the new film from Palm Springs director Max Barbakow.

The House of Gucci trailer showcases a full range of Italian(?) accents

By Charles Bramesco

Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Jared Leto, Al Pacino... and Jeremy Irons?! Abbondanza!

The Sparks brothers on their Jacques Tati collaboration that never was

By Charles Bramesco

Ron and Russell Mael came close to working with the legendary French director in the 1970s.

After 30 years, Phil Tippett’s stop-motion opus Mad God is finally complete

By Charles Bramesco

The animator’s long-awaited fusion of handmade sci-fi and horror will premiere at the Locarno Film Festival.

Oscar Isaac beats the odds in the first trailer for The Card Counter

By Charles Bramesco

He’s a card shark, vengeance-seeker, and possible war criminal in Paul Schrader’s new crime drama.

Tomorrow creeps in its petty pace in the first image from Joel Coen’s Macbeth

By Charles Bramesco

Denzel Washington assays the Scottish noble and Frances McDormand is his scheming wife in the NYFF opener.

Matt Damon and Adam Driver throw down the gauntlet in The Last Duel trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In Ridley Scott’s medieval epic, they face off alongside Jodie Comer and a towheaded Ben Affleck.

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival returns with a wave of announcements

By Charles Bramesco

Kenneth Branagh, Edgar Wright, Mélanie Laurent, Zhang Yimou, Terence Davies, and many more!

Your guide to the major distribution deals from Cannes 2021

By Charles Bramesco

Here’s a full breakdown of who is bringing some of the year’s most-anticipated movies to the UK and US.

Park Chan-wook will adapt The Sympathizer for TV, with Robert Downey Jr. on board

By Charles Bramesco

RDJ will portray multiple antagonists in the new take on Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel.

Tilda Swinton goes on a sensory journey in the first Memoria trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She embarks on an existential quest in the latest feature from Thai great Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Watch the 4K restoration trailer for True Romance

By Charles Bramesco

Arrow Video is giving the 4K treatment to an early ’90s triumph from Quentin Tarantino and Tony Scott.

Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac spar in the Scenes From a Marriage trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece, said to increase Sweden’s rate of divorce, is getting a second life on TV courtesy of HBO.

The sexist Black Widow joke salvaged by Nicole Holofcener

By Charles Bramesco

A creaky joke from the original script turned into a heated exchange about the female reproductive system.

Justin Kurzel explores the origins of a mass shooting in the Nitram trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Caleb Landry-Jones and Essie Davis star in the dramatization of a real-life 1996 massacre.

Taron Egerton will replace Robert Pattinson in Claire Denis’ next film

By Charles Bramesco

The onetime Rocketman is poised to star alongside Margaret Qualley in The Stars at Noon.

Roger Deakins is publishing a deluxe book of his photography

By Charles Bramesco

‘Byways’ will cover five decades of photographs from the Academy Award-winning DoP.

Tony Soprano gets himself a gun once again in The Many Saints of Newark trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The prequel to HBO's flagship gangster series rejoins the Soprano family in the '60s.

Two Irish sisters share a bitter reunion in the scorching trailer for Wildfire

By Charles Bramesco

Cathy Brady's debut feature confronts the human toll of the national fight for independence from the UK.

French Exit

By Charles Bramesco

This dour transatlantic farce about a widowed New York socialite who relocates to Paris is a lesser literary adaptation.

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Michael Myers slashes his way through the Halloween Kills trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Jamie Lee Curtis reprises the role of Laurie for David Gordon Green's addition to the horror franchise.

The first trailer for The Harder They Fall revives the Black Western with style

By Charles Bramesco

Regina King, Lakeith Stanfield, Idris Elba, and Jonathan Majors star in the yarn of cowpokes and outlaws.

A new documentary will go behind the scenes at the Cannes Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

Cannes Uncut will capture the “glorious excesses” of the world’s most glamorous film festival.

Walter Hill’s new western pits Christoph Waltz against Willem Dafoe

By Charles Bramesco

They’ll play a bounty hunter and an outlaw, respectively, in the veteran director’s upcoming Dead for a Dollar.

Fast cars and smashed spines abound in the first trailer for Titane

By Charles Bramesco

A car showroom model, a grieving father, and a woman with a mysterious past cross paths in Julia Ducournau’s latest.

Nicolas Cage goes searching for his porcine pal in the Pig trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In Michael Sarnoski’s low-key debut, the Cage takes revenge on the exploitative food industry.

It Must Be Heaven

By Charles Bramesco

Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman goes in search of parallels to his homeland in this charming road movie.

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Alexander Payne’s next film will reunite him with Paul Giamatti

By Charles Bramesco

The Holdovers puts the Sideways star at an elite prep school over the holidays circa 1970.

Jessica Chastain praises the good lord in The Eyes of Tammy Faye trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She plays televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in the new dramatization of her improbable rise and fall.

Bryan Fuller is pumping the gas on a remake of Stephen King’s Christine

By Charles Bramesco

The creator of TV's Hannibal and Pushing Daisies will make his foray into movies with the tale of automotive horror.

Everyone’s armed and dangerous in the first trailer for No Sudden Move

By Charles Bramesco

Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Amy Seimetz and Jon Hamm star in Steven Soderbergh’s period crime caper.

Reality and fantasy overlap in the first trailer for Bergman Island

By Charles Bramesco

Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska and Anders Danielsen Lie appear in Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest.

Girl

By Charles Bramesco

Bella Thorne goes on the warpath in first-time director Chad Faust’s lacklustre revenge thriller.

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Luca Guadagnino will reteam with Timothée Chalamet on Bones & All

By Charles Bramesco

The one-time Call Me By Your Name collaborators will join forces on a different sort of romance in their next film.

What does Amazon’s buyout of MGM mean for movie-lovers?

By Charles Bramesco

James Bond is the big name, but the ramifications extend far beyond 007.

Time cracks and splinters in the first trailer for Last Night in Soho

By Charles Bramesco

Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie bleed into one another, possibly literally, in Edgar Wright’s psycho-thriller.

Timothée Chalamet will play a young Willy Wonka in a new prequel

By Charles Bramesco

He’s set to take the lead in an origin story from Paddington director Paul King.

Chloé Zhao’s style gets Marvelized in the first trailer for Eternals

By Charles Bramesco

The recent Oscar winner brings her talents to the studio system for the big-budget superhero epic.

In the Heights

By Charles Bramesco

New York is teeming with sweaty, joyous life in the exuberant musical from Crazy Rich Asians’ Jon M Chu.

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Brandon Cronenberg will adapt J.G. Ballard’s novel Super-Cannes for TV

By Charles Bramesco

He'll make Ballard a family business with the vision of techno-dystopia in the south of France.

Jennifer Hudson socks it to us as Aretha Franklin in the Respect trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Liesl Tommy’s film chronicles the early years and rise to fame of the Queen of Soul.

Sci-fi cult classic Attack the Block will reinvade cinemas with a sequel

By Charles Bramesco

John Boyega will reprise his role of Moses, with Joe Cornish once again set to write and direct.

Those Who Wish Me Dead

By Charles Bramesco

Angelina Jolie is pitted against the forces of nature in this damp squib of a thriller from writer/director Taylor Sheridan.

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The Woman in the Window

By Charles Bramesco

Joe Wright serves up a tepid slice of Hitchcockian suspense, with Amy Adams as a paranoid agoraphobe.

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The trailer for The Sparks Brothers salutes a singular musical legacy

By Charles Bramesco

Edgar Wright directs the form-pushing documentary about the legendary Los Angeles pop duo.

Bong Joon-ho is sets to make waves with his first animated feature

By Charles Bramesco

After his next English-language project, he’ll return to Korea for the sea creature-based cartoon fantasy.

Paul Mescal will take to the Irish countryside for an A24 psychodrama

By Charles Bramesco

Co-directors Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis are preparing a follow-up to 2015’s The Fits.

Matt Damon seeks justice for his daughter in the Stillwater trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Abigail Breslin and Camille Cottin also star in the latest drama from Spotlight director Tom McCarthy.

Venom: Let There Be Carnage gets a gooey first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Tom Hardy is back as everyone’s favourite quasi-schizophrenic vigilante crimefighter.

Sofia Coppola has directed a new short film for the New York City Ballet

By Charles Bramesco

The 26-minute mood piece captures the majesty of the dance company for their Spring Gala.

Nuns get hot under the collar in the Benedetta trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Virginie Efira, Lambert Wilson and Charlotte Rampling lead Paul Verhoeven’s Cannes-bound drama.

George A Romero’s unfinished final work is back on track

By Charles Bramesco

His posthumous swan song Twilight of the Dead may soon enter production.

David Cronenberg is gearing up for his first new film in nearly a decade

By Charles Bramesco

Crimes of the Future will begin filming in Greece soon, and looks set to star the Viggo Mortensen.

15 films we’d like to see at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

With Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Paul Verhoeven locked in, we’re ready to keep the rumour mill turning.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Andrew Garfield has an internet-age rise and fall in the Mainstream trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Maya Hawke and Nat Wolff also star in Gia Coppola’s upcoming social media satire.

The Soviet version of The Lord of the Rings has been unearthed at last

By Charles Bramesco

Russian-language remake Khraniteli is right there on YouTube, for curious hobbits’ viewing.

Floridian hell breaks loose in the first trailer for the rip-roaring Zola

By Charles Bramesco

Taylour Paige and Riley Keough star in the Janicza Bravo’s road-trip thriller inspired by a viral Twitter thread.

Jason Statham takes on an army of bank robbers in the Wrath of Man

By Charles Bramesco

The trailer for Guy Ritchie’s latest sends the Stath on a rampage of paternal vengeance.

Godzilla vs King Kong

By Charles Bramesco

Two of cinema’s most iconic monsters square off in Adam Wingard’s underwhelming IP crossover.

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The first trailer for The Suicide Squad assembles a ragtag psycho crew

By Charles Bramesco

James Gunn reboots DC’s preeminent team of villains on the leash in a new adventure.

Bad Trip

By Charles Bramesco

Eric André spins his tried-and-trusted brand of hidden-camera humour into a feature-length buddy comedy.

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Ben Wheatley conjures woodland insanity in the In the Earth trailer

By Charles Bramesco

A research expedition descends into violent hysterics in the writer/director’s pandemic-era horror.

Cary Fukunaga will go cyberpunk with a ‘Tokyo Ghost’ adaptation

By Charles Bramesco

Following No Time to Die, the American director plans to put his stamp on the cult comic series.

Lisandro Alonso and Rick Alverson are teaming up for an Amazonian epic

By Charles Bramesco

The like-minded independent directors will venture into the Brazilian jungle for The God Beside My Bed.

Emerald Fennell is lining up a superhero movie for her next film

By Charles Bramesco

The Promising Young Woman writer/director is in talks to pen the script for DC Films’ Zatanna.

Florian Zeller will continue to scale the family tree with The Son

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director of The Father is set to adapt his own play for his next feature film.

Michael B Jordan will make his directorial debut with Creed III

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll come out swinging with a massive studio project as his first stint behind the camera.

Elizabeth Banks scores her next directing gig on Cocaine Bear

By Charles Bramesco

As the title suggests, the film will recount a true incident concerning some ursine narcotics antics.

Steven Spielberg will get personal with a film looking back on his childhood

By Charles Bramesco

Michelle Williams is in line to star as a character supposedly based on the director’s mother.

Avatar will reclaim its all-time box office record with a Chinese re-release

By Charles Bramesco

Put that in your Infinity Gauntlet and smoke it, Avengers: Endgame!

The Crown star Emma Corrin will lead a Lady Chatterley’s Lover film

By Charles Bramesco

She’ll play a noblewoman seized by uncouth desire in the adaptation of DH Lawrence’s scandalous novel.

Alejandro González Iñárritu has begun production on his first film in six years

By Charles Bramesco

Limbo will capture the “political and social modernity of Mexico”, and is being lensed by Darius Khondji.

Ridley Scott eyes Jodie Comer for the female lead in his Napoleon epic

By Charles Bramesco

She’s set to star as Josephine, paramour to the infamous, diminutive world-conqueror.

Pixar weaves a fantasy of Italian mer-boys in the first Luca trailer

By Charles Bramesco

A pair of friends must keep their amphibian secret from their harpoon-happy community.

David Fincher will adapt French graphic novel ‘The Killer’ for his next film

By Charles Bramesco

Michael Fassbender could be in line to star in the upcoming thriller, the director’s latest for Netflix.

Guy Ritchie is marching to the front with a new World War Two thriller

By Charles Bramesco

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare concerns a secret black ops team doing the dirty work.

See Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage

By Charles Bramesco

The Affair creator Hagai Levy will update Ingmar Bergman’s relationship drama for 2021.

Ari Aster’s next film has found its lead in Joaquin Phoenix

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll play “one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time” in Disappointment Blvd, for A24.

Jesse Plemons joins Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon

By Charles Bramesco

He’s poised to take over the lead role from Leonardo DiCaprio in the director’s 1920s crime western.

Watch a clip from Hong Sang-soo’s Berlin-bound Introduction

By Charles Bramesco

A young actor works on his relationships with his father and girlfriend in the Korean master’s newest feature.

Emma Stone goes punk in the first trailer for Disney’s Cruella

By Charles Bramesco

She leads the cast of I, Tonya director Craig Gillespie’s live-action 101 Dalmatians prequel.

Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar

By Charles Bramesco

This female buddy comedy starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo is a silly delight from start to finish.

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Judd Apatow will attempt to find the funny in COVID with his new film

By Charles Bramesco

Karen Gillan, Maria Bakalova, Pedro Pascal, Peter Serafinowicz and more are already on board.

Music

By Charles Bramesco

The controversy surrounding Sia’s directorial debut should not distract from its basic cinematic failings.

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M Night Shyamalan heads to the beach in the first trailer for Old

By Charles Bramesco

A small section of coast seems to be rapidly ageing Vicky Krieps and Gael García Bernal in the new thriller.

Paul Greengrass: ‘I wanted to make The Searchers in reverse’

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director on channelling John Ford for his first foray into the American frontier, News of the World.

News of the World

By Charles Bramesco

Tom Hanks saddles up for a classically-styled western about a Civil War veteran who rescues an orphaned girl.

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Todd Haynes will direct Michelle Williams in a film about Peggy Lee

By Charles Bramesco

Billie Eilish is also reported to be starring in the director’s upcoming biopic of the American jazz singer.

Bliss

By Charles Bramesco

Mike Cahill’s disastrous sci-fi parable sees Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek slip into a simulated realty.

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Yorgos Lanthimos is reworking Frankenstein with Emma Stone

By Charles Bramesco

The pair are set to adapt the novel ‘Poor Things’, about an undead woman pieced back together.

George Clooney is reviving Buck Rogers for the small screen

By Charles Bramesco

The old-times hero of pulp fiction paperbacks will get the blockbuster treatment from Legendary.

Get your first look at Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana

By Charles Bramesco

She’s playing the late People’s Princess in Pablo Larraín’s upcoming biopic Spencer.

Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams will reunite on Showing Up

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s regular collaborator is set to play an artist preparing the exhibition of a lifetime.

Malcolm & Marie

By Charles Bramesco

John David Washington and Zendaya play out a tedious lovers’ tiff care of writer/director Sam Levinson.

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Terence Davies has begun work on a Stefan Zweig film

By Charles Bramesco

While we await his next feature, Benediction, there’s news of his adaptation of The Post Office Girl.

Tilda Swinton will star in Joanna Hogg’s other upcoming film

By Charles Bramesco

After The Souvenir Part II, we’ll see her in the writer/director’s The Eternal Daughter.

Noah Baumbach will adapt White Noise with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll join a small cadre of filmmakers who have taken a whack at the prose of Don DeLillo.

The drug war targets a star in The United States vs Billie Holiday

By Charles Bramesco

Andra Day plays the singer, as she’s harassed by the feds for her heroin use.

Danny Boyle will direct a TV miniseries about The Sex Pistols

By Charles Bramesco

Anglophile television is about to get a whole lot less polite, thanks to the director’s upcoming show.

Watch Zendaya and John David Washington in the Malcolm & Marie trailer

By Charles Bramesco

They do a whole lot of talking and crying in the new Netflix drama from director Sam Levinson.

Jessie Buckley is set to star in Alex Garland’s next film, Men

By Charles Bramesco

She’ll play a young woman mourning the death of her ex-husband while on holiday in the English countryside.

Steven Soderbergh has shared his annual viewing log for 2020

By Charles Bramesco

Here’s every piece of media the American director consumed last year, including four different viewings of Mank.

Fancy a week alone watching movies in a remote lighthouse?

By Charles Bramesco

The Göteborg Film Festival is offering one brave soul a once-in-a-lifetime festival experience.

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.

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 Byrne’s American Utopia

By Charles Bramesco

Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s celebrated concert shows a pop master at the peak of his powers.

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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.

Aardman and Netflix are making an animated Christmas musical

By Charles Bramesco

Gillian Anderson and Richard E Grant will lend their vocal stylings to Robin Robin.

Hirokazu Koreeda is preparing his first Korean-language film

By Charles Bramesco

Wachowskis regular Bae Doona and Parasite’s Song Kang-ho lead the cast of Baby, Box, Broker.

Channing Tatum reunites with Lord & Miller for a monster movie send-up

By Charles Bramesco

It’s alive! (‘It’ being a parody of Universal’s classic horror pictures, courtesy of the Jump Street directors.)

Spike Lee is planning to direct a Viagra origin story musical

By Charles Bramesco

The songwriting team behind Passing Strange is also on board for the director’s take on Pfizer’s wonder drug.

Vanessa Kirby grieves in the Pieces of a Woman trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She shares top billing with Shia LaBeouf in this emotive drama about a couple who lose their infant child.

Lynne Ramsay sets her sights on a Stephen King adaptation

By Charles Bramesco

She’s set to bring the survival-horror ‘The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon’ to the screen.

Meryl Streep and Lucas Hedges set sail in the Let Them All Talk trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Steven Soderbergh’s latest also includes Gemma Chan, Candice Bergen and Dianne Wiest.

The Safdies have directed a hallucinatory video for Oneohtrix Point Never

By Charles Bramesco

Welcome to a vortex of video detritus, inspired by the musician’s latest single ‘Lost But Never Alone’.

Abel Ferrara taps Ethan Hawke for the new thriller Zeros and Ones

By Charles Bramesco

The espionage thriller will serve as the director’s response to the worldwide lockdown.

Céline Sciamma has begun work on her next film, a childhood drama

By Charles Bramesco

Petite Maman, which has already begun filmed in Paris, stars two eight-year-old leads.

Smooth Talk pits an adolescent Laura Dern against primal American evil

By Charles Bramesco

Joyce Chopra’s newly restored coming-of-age picture deserves classic status.

Peter Serafinowicz and the South Park team are deepfaking an entire film

By Charles Bramesco

Their Donald Trump doppelgänger Fred Sassy may get a silver screen vehicle sometime soon.

Armie Hammer and Mads Mikkelsen will play spy games in a new thriller

By Charles Bramesco

They’re set to star in The Billion Dollar Spy from director Amma Asante.

George Clooney has an urgent message in The Midnight Sky trailer

By Charles Bramesco

As a scientist secluded in Antarctica, he must warn returning astronauts of the catastrophes that have befallen Earth.

Kenya Barris will make his directorial debut with a Richard Pryor biopic

By Charles Bramesco

The accomplished screenwriter and Black-ish showrunner is stepping behind the camera.

Feast your eyes on hundreds of behind-the-scenes photos from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

A newly surfaced website also previews Atticus Ross and Trent Reznor’s score.

Tom Hanks hits the country roads in the News of the World trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He ferries a young girl to safety in an old-school western from Paul Greengrass.

It’s Hollywood versus Hearst in the full trailer for Mank

By Charles Bramesco

David Fincher pits art against commerce in the story of Herman Mankiewicz's tragic downfall.

Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm

By Charles Bramesco

Sacha Baron Cohen’s calamity-prone Kazakh reporter takes dead-aim at US conservatism in this rip-snorting sequel.

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The first trailer for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom strikes up the band

By Charles Bramesco

Viola Davis stars alongside the dearly departed Chadwick Boseman in the musical period piece.

Bill Nighy will lead an English-language reworking of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru

By Charles Bramesco

The newly-announced update will be scripted by none other than Kazuo Ishiguro.

Dev Patel is starring in a film about the male striptease troupe Chippendales

By Charles Bramesco

Sorry, but he’ll not be doing any of the scantily-clad dancing in Craig Gillespie’s upcoming drama.

Bong Joon-ho’s early shorts are coming to the UK for the first time

By Charles Bramesco

Influenza and Incoherence will screen later this month at the London Korean Film Festival.

Park Chan-wook has begun work on his next film, a romantic murder mystery

By Charles Bramesco

Decision to Leave marks the director’s return to Korea following his English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl.

French Exit – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Michelle Pfieffer prowls the upper social echelons of Paris and Manhattan in this trifling take on Patrick DeWitt’s novel.

COVID relief scheme offers respite for UK film and TV production

By Charles Bramesco

Filmmakers and producers effected by the pandemic can apply for financial aide to cover the cost of their losses.

David Fincher transports viewers to a bygone Hollywood in the Mank trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s first feature film in six years tells the story of how Citizen Kane was written.

Tilda Swinton sits for Pedro Almodóvar in The Human Voice trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The Spanish master’s 30-minute short is coming to UK cinemas next month.

An international coalition of female spies team up in The 355

By Charles Bramesco

Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing – the whole gang is here.

At 90, Clint Eastwood is starting production on a new movie

By Charles Bramesco

The unstoppable nonagenarian will also star in Cry Macho, in which he’ll play a washed-up rodeo rider.

Borat is back in the trailer for his Subsequent Moviefilm

By Charles Bramesco

Sacha Baron Cohen’s foolhardy Kazakh reporter tackles Trump and COVID in this sequel.

The Trial of the Chicago 7

By Charles Bramesco

Bad habits die hard in Aaron Sorkin’s high-wire legal drama about the Chicago Seven protestors.

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Watch the hair-raising first trailer for refugee horror His House

By Charles Bramesco

A couple from South Sudan settle in the UK, only to discover that their new home is haunted...

A Korean family chases the American dream in the Minari trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Lee Isaac Chung’s Sundance-dominating drama stars Steven Yeun and newcomer Alan Kim.

Barry Jenkins will direct a sequel to the computerized Lion King remake

By Charles Bramesco

The Oscar-winning filmmaker will go from Harlem to Pride Rock.

Ben Wheatley is making a COVID horror film between studio projects

By Charles Bramesco

Before Tomb Raider, he’s sneaking in a low-budget indie tackling our present pandemic crisis.

Steven Soderbergh’s next film brings together all of your favourite actors

By Charles Bramesco

Don Cheadle! Jon Hamm! Kieran Culkin? Julia Fox?! BRENDAN FRASER?!?

Riz Ahmed bangs the drums in The Sound of Metal trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He portrays a stickman who is rapidly going deaf in Darius Marder’s visceral debut feature.

Ryan Gosling set to star in drama about the life of a stuntman

By Charles Bramesco

John Wick co-director David Leitch will draw on his own experiences as a rough-and-tumble man of action.

Two cinematic tributes to Ruth Bader Ginsburg are set for re-release

By Charles Bramesco

The biopic On the Basis of Sex and the documentary RBG will raise charity funds in these new US runs.

Studio Ghibli has released 400 free images from its film library

By Charles Bramesco

From Spirited Away to Ponyo, your screensavers and wallpapers will never be the same again.

Lee Isaac Chung will direct a live-action remake of Your Name

By Charles Bramesco

Paramount and Toho will join forces for the body-swapping anime adaptation.

Kirsten Johnson ponders life and death in the Dick Johnson is Dead trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The filmmaker’s new documentary simulates her father’s demise, over and over.

Aaron Sorkin goes back to court in The Trial of the Chicago 7 trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Sacha Baron Cohen steps up to testify in the ’60s-set legal drama from the screenwriter’s latest directorial effort.

American Utopia – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Spike Lee’s film of David Byrne’s acclaimed Broadway performance is a transcendent cinematic experience.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune gets a spicy first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Timothée! Zendaya! Oscar Isaac! Giant sand worms! Something for everyone!

The Academy Awards have set new diversity standards, but to what end?

By Charles Bramesco

It’s difficult to think of a film that wouldn’t clear this low bar.

Ben Wheatley courts intrigue with the first Rebecca trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Tangled passions ensnare Lily James and Armie Hammer in this update of Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel.

David Fincher returns to cinemas with first images from Mank

By Charles Bramesco

His first feature in six years chronicles the tensions between Orson Welles and Herman J Mankiewicz on Citizen Kane.

Francis Ford Coppola has prepared a new edit of The Godfather Part III

By Charles Bramesco

Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone will restore the director and Mario Puzo’s original vision.

No Time to Die gets an action-stuff, neon-soaked new trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Daniel Craig’s 007 will return to brick-and-mortar cinemas in November, by gum.

Brady Corbet has cast his ambitious next film The Brutalist

By Charles Bramesco

Mark Rylance, Vanessa Kirby and Marion Cotillard have joined the actor-director’s postwar epic.

Bill & Ted Face the Music

By Charles Bramesco

The Wyld Stallyns return after nearly three decades out of the saddle. The result could hardly be more excellent.

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Paul Mescal set to star in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter

By Charles Bramesco

The Normal People actor has been cast in the upcoming psychological thriller, Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut.

Clemency director Chinonye Chukwu is making an Emmett Till biopic

By Charles Bramesco

The drama will cover its subject’s 1955 lynching and his mother’s historic campaign for justice.

Paleontology and sapphic passions combine in the Ammonite trailer

By Charles Bramesco

19th-century Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet fall in love in Francis Lee’s latest.

The Berlin Film Festival has done away with gendered acting categories

By Charles Bramesco

The Berlinale will stick to Leading Performance and Supporting Performance categories in future.

Ai Weiwei has made a sobering pandemic documentary in secrecy

By Charles Bramesco

The Chinese artist-filmmaker’s gorgeous, shattering CoroNation quietly arrived online over the weekend.

Chemical Hearts

By Charles Bramesco

Riverdale sweetheart Lili Reinhart plays a star-crossed high schooler in this stilted teen weepie from Richard Tanne.

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Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion Pinocchio is taking shape

By Charles Bramesco

Ewan McGregor and newcomer Gregory Mann lead the voice cast, with additional roles announced.

A starry ensemble sinks into sin in The Devil All The Time trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough and Mia Wasikowska head up Antonio Campos’ period piece.

Lulu Wang is adapting a Hirokazu Koreeda drama for her next feature

By Charles Bramesco

She’s taking on an English-language version of Like Father, Like Son for her follow-up to The Farewell.

HBO’s Lovecraft Country delivers a fierce broadside against bigotry

By Charles Bramesco

Misha Green and Jordan Peele’s 10-part series externalises the darker implications of Lovecraftian lore.

Animation legend Don Hertzfeldt is readying a third World of Tomorrow short

By Charles Bramesco

The densely conceptual sci-fi series now focuses on the lonely David Prime.

The I’m Thinking of Ending Things trailer leaps through time and space

By Charles Bramesco

Expect another unconventional, wryly funny odyssey of the mind from Charlie Kaufman.

Young Ahmed

By Charles Bramesco

The Dardenne brothers change tack with this provocative portrait of a teenage Muslim fundamentalist.

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Paul Thomas Anderson wants Bradley Cooper for his ’70s high school movie

By Charles Bramesco

Every school has that one handsome teacher – could it be B-Coop?

Steve McQueen’s John Boyega-starring miniseries is arriving this year

By Charles Bramesco

Small Axe sees the actor-activist play a London police officer trying to change the system from the inside.

Miranda July’s Kajillionaire follows a family of eccentric thieves

By Charles Bramesco

Evan Rachel Wood, Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger and Gina Rodriguez lead the cast.

Pixar announces Luca, a coming-of-age adventure set on the Italian Riviera

By Charles Bramesco

The animation studio’s next feature-length film joins a pair of best friends for an “unforgettable summer”.

A short history of Hollywood’s (ill-fated) attempts to adapt the internet

By Charles Bramesco

A bidding war over a Reddit-sourced horror pitch rings a familiar bell.

Now that it’s off the release calendar, when will we get to see Tenet?

By Charles Bramesco

Christopher Nolan’s time-fluctuation thriller has been downgraded to TBD.

Brandon Cronenberg’s mind-jellying Possessor has gotten a first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Christopher Abbott and Andrea Riseborough star in the psycho-horror film.

Father Soldier Son

By Charles Bramesco

There's a sense of cyclical despair at the heart of Leslye Davis and Catrin Einhorn's portrait of the modern day American veteran.

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See the trailer for a stripped-down concert film Nick Cave recorded under COVID

By Charles Bramesco

An Idiot Prayer sees the musician wandering an abandoned Alexander Palace as he speaks his songs.

Sundance London will go virtual to continue in 2020

By Charles Bramesco

Zeina Durra’s Luxor and Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank head up the main feature programme.

Jonathan Glazer and Mica Levi team up for ‘dancing plague’ film

By Charles Bramesco

Strasbourg 1518 pairs the Under the Skin director and composer with an ensemble of world-class dancers.

RIP Ennio Morricone – Eleven essential compositions

By Charles Bramesco

From Spaghetti western classics to the Tarantino pictures they inspired, a master’s digest.

Back Roads

By Charles Bramesco

Alex Pettyfer marks his directorial debut in inauspicious fashion with this lurid family incest thriller.

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BFI London Film Festival announces virtual 2020 edition

By Charles Bramesco

This year’s LFF will offer online screenings, free screen talks and more, widening access across the UK.

Ava DuVernay and Colin Kaepernick are working on a series about his younger years

By Charles Bramesco

The miniseries exploring the activist and football star’s formative experiences will run on Netflix.

In a bleak week, two artists have been sentenced to jail time

By Charles Bramesco

Kirill Serebrennikov and Taraneh Alidoosti have been critical of their respective states in recent weeks.

Barry Jenkins is dramatizing a gorilla conservation doc for Netflix

By Charles Bramesco

Leonardo DiCaprio is also producing the narrative adaptation of the film Virunga.

A young girl voyages into outer space in the Over the Moon trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The latest film from Pearl Studio and celebrated animator Glen Keane arrives on Netflix this year.

James Gray to team up with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Oscar Isaac

By Charles Bramesco

The Ad Astra director is in the early stages of prepping his next feature, Armageddon Time.

7500

By Charles Bramesco

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays a besieged pilot in this airborne thriller from German director Patrick Vollrath.

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15 June, 1990, an exceptionally unhinged day in Hollywood history

By Charles Bramesco

Thirty years ago, Gremlins 2: The New Batch and Dick Tracy arrived in one fell swoop of auteurist mania.

Cannes announces official selection for its cancelled 2020 edition

By Charles Bramesco

Steve McQueen, Wes Anderson and Im Sang-soo were all set to compete at this year’s festival.

Studio Ghibli’s next feature will air on TV this winter

By Charles Bramesco

Aya and the Witch tells the story of the smartest girl in the world and her hex-casting companion.

Shane Carruth releases concept trailer for his lost passion project

By Charles Bramesco

In the unrealised A Topiary, humankind discovers how to 3D-print organic matter.

A new Martin Scorsese short film is airing this week

By Charles Bramesco

The director has been processing the pandemic through the lens of classic cinema.

The next major film festival is coming to your living room

By Charles Bramesco

We Are One collects over 100 submissions from Berlin, Cannes and BFI London Film Festival.

New survey suggests UK cinemas won’t reopen until September

By Charles Bramesco

And that’s the earliest projected date, according to a report from the Independent Cinema Office.

Descend into madness with a new animated short from David Lynch

By Charles Bramesco

Antlered monstrosities, floating worms – just another day in Lynchland.

My Comfort Blanket Movie: The Triplets of Belleville

By Charles Bramesco

Charles Bramesco basks in the soothing whimsy of Sylvain Chomet’s animated marvel from 2003.

Spike Lee blazes a path through Vietnam in Da 5 Bloods trailer

By Charles Bramesco

His heist thriller follows a crew of black veterans in search of treasure left behind years earlier.

Capone

By Charles Bramesco

Tom Hardy goes for broke in this pedestrian twilight-years biopic of notorious mobster Al Capone.

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Elisabeth Moss goes a bit mad indoors in the Shirley trailer

By Charles Bramesco

At this point, who among us can’t relate to Josephine Decker’s latest film?

Spaceship Earth

By Charles Bramesco

The true story of a group of people who spent two years quarantined in a giant replica of Earth’s ecosystem.

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Master cinematographer Roger Deakins has turned master podcaster

By Charles Bramesco

Team Deakins digs into the finer points of cinematography and the film industry.

The Eddy review – A haunting melody that quickly fades

By Charles Bramesco

Damien Chazelle’s eight-part Paris jazz drama scarcely misses a note, but we’ve heard this tune before.

Beastie Boys Story

By Charles Bramesco

How Brooklyn’s finest changed the rap game, as told by the group’s two surviving members.

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Join an ill-fated scientific revolution with the first trailer for Spaceship Earth

By Charles Bramesco

The stranger-than-fiction documentary tracks the fate of Biosphere 2, a self-contained geodesic dome.

A new documentary checks in with quarantining filmmakers around the world

By Charles Bramesco

The latest iteration of the Room H.264 series touches on the sweeping effects of coronavirus.

Cannes sidebars officially cancel their 2020 editions

By Charles Bramesco

The pandemic has prompted the Directors’ Fortnight, Critics’ Week and Acid festivals to set their sights on 2021.

AMC is heading for bankruptcy, but that may not spell the end

By Charles Bramesco

Though the US cinema chain has hit dire straits, the sky hasn’t begun falling yet.

This streaming pick finds hope in the suffering of war

By Charles Bramesco

Agnieszka Holland’s masterpiece Europa Europa is harrowing and gorgeous – and now available to watch online.

A crowdfunding effort has saved Derek Jarman’s seaside cottage

By Charles Bramesco

The late filmmaker and queer activist called Dungeness in Kent home during the latter years of his life.

“Virtual cinemas” aim to take US arthouse theaters online – and into the future

By Charles Bramesco

150 movie theaters have signed up for the possibly game-changing Kino Marquee.

A new relief fund will provide aid to the UK’s film and TV industries

By Charles Bramesco

Netflix has already pledged £1 million in a joint venture with BFI and The Film and TV Charity.

Is quarantine viewing a time for edification or relaxation?

By Charles Bramesco

On one hand, the comforting familiarity of a rewatch. On the other, broadened horizons.

Your quarantine guide to streaming video in the UK and US

By Charles Bramesco

Don’t let the encroaching pandemic prevent you from enriching yourself with the best of film and TV.

The Truth

By Charles Bramesco

Hirokazu Koreeda follows up Shoplifters with a typically dreamy, heart-piercing family drama.

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My Darling Quarantine brings the film festival experience online

By Charles Bramesco

Organisers from Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Locarno and others are joining forces to raise money in light of Coronavirus.

Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story reveals dazzling new images

By Charles Bramesco

The upcoming remake of the classic musical envisions the glamorous, pandemic-free ’50s.

The Hunt

By Charles Bramesco

It’s Liberal Elites versus Red Staters in Craig Zobel’s long-delayed horror-satire. The wait was hardly worth it.

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John Boyega partners with Netflix to bolster Africa’s film industry

By Charles Bramesco

The British-Nigerian actor wants to bring more localised stories to a global audience.

Parasite is now the UK’s highest-grossing foreign-language film ever

By Charles Bramesco

After sweeping the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho now has the honour of knocking Mel Gibson off his perch.

Coronavirus throws the 2020 Cannes Film Festival into jeopardy

By Charles Bramesco

The festival is confident the show will go on, but concerns are mounting as the virus continues to spread.

Good Night, and Good Luck will tread the boards with a stage adaptation

By Charles Bramesco

Bridge of Spies scribe Matt Charman will adapt the screenplay about Red Scare paranoia.

Fantasy Island

By Charles Bramesco

A tropical getaway becomes a waking nightmare for its hapless guests in this dire reboot of the ’70s TV show.

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The directors of Free Solo are set to tackle the 2018 Thai cave rescue

By Charles Bramesco

Elon Musk has yet to be attached, but Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin look to have landed the project.

A coalition of LGBTQ+ filmmakers are boycotting an Israeli film festival

By Charles Bramesco

Over 100 artists are taking a stand against the annual TLVFest in Tel Aviv.

After the mass walkout, what’s next for Cahiers du Cinéma?

By Charles Bramesco

The future of the long-running French film journal has been plunged into uncertainty.

The Jordan Peele-produced remake of Candyman gets its first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Nia DaCosta directs the update of a socially-conscious 1994 horror hit.

Can Indiana Jones survive without Steven Spielberg?

By Charles Bramesco

The director reportedly won’t be returning for Indy 5, with James Mangold posed to take over.

A new Little Shop of Horrors remake ensnares Chris Evans

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll star as the demented dentist alongside Taron Egerton and Scarlett Johansson.

Robert Eggers is prepping his next film, a 10th-century Viking epic

By Charles Bramesco

The Lighthouse director is reuniting with Willem Dafoe and DoP Jarin Blaschke for The Northman.

Watch a Tilda Swinton-narrated clip from Jóhann Jóhannsson’s final film

By Charles Bramesco

The late Icelandic composer’s Last and First Men was completed posthumously.

Jennifer Lawrence and Adam McKay are plotting the end of the world

By Charles Bramesco

But no need to worry – it’s just for their new movie Don’t Look Up.

Claire Denis prepares new film with Robert Pattinson and Margaret Qualley

By Charles Bramesco

The Stars at Noon sticks both actors in 1984 Nicaragua, mid-revolution.

Greed

By Charles Bramesco

Fake tan and righteous fury abound in Michael Winterbottom’s satire of a mega-rich entrepreneur.

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Martin Scorsese is tackling the western genre with his next film

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s forthcoming Killers of the Flower Moon is finally taking shape.

Has the video game movie curse finally been lifted?

By Charles Bramesco

Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog could be the great blue hope for an industry bête noire.

We need to talk about Caleb Landry Jones’ debut LP

By Charles Bramesco

The reputable character actor is ready to jam out, Frank Zappa-style.

Rick Moranis is coming out of retirement for a Honey, I Shrunk the Kids sequel

By Charles Bramesco

He’s set to star alongside Josh Gad in a belated follow-up to the beloved ’80s sci-fi comedy.

Dev Patel is on fire in the new trailer for The Green Knight

By Charles Bramesco

The British star plays Sir Gawain in director David Lowery’s latest, from the A24 stable.

Watch the first trailer for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

By Charles Bramesco

The story of a French newspaper's post-WWII operation goes heavy on whimsy.

Ava DuVernay will honour Nipsey Hussle in a new documentary

By Charles Bramesco

The rapper, who was assassinated one year ago, is the subject of the director’s upcoming Netflix film.

With Parasite’s big night, Oscar’s world gets a little bigger

By Charles Bramesco

The “local” awards ceremony reflects an industry inching towards globalization.

At long last, you can now disable Netflix’s autoplay feature

By Charles Bramesco

The streaming giant has moved to bring an end to those annoying automatic previews.

The Saw franchise draws new blood with the Spiral trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Chris Rock and Samuel L Jackson as beat cops? We’re listening...

Everything we know about Christopher Nolan’s Tenet

By Charles Bramesco

All the latest intel on the director’s forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster, starring John David Washington and Robert Pattinson.

Which movies sold big at this year’s Sundance Film Festival?

By Charles Bramesco

Records were broken as Amazon, Netflix and the major studios battled for a piece of the indie market.

The Rhythm Section

By Charles Bramesco

Blake Lively is hellbent on revenge in director Reed Morano’s female-inflected riff on James Bond.

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A24 is looking to turn Under the Skin into a TV series

By Charles Bramesco

A bidding war could bring Scarlett Johansson’s homicidal alien to the small screen.

What’s next for post-remake Disney?

By Charles Bramesco

Once they’ve run out of animated classics to revive, where will the Mouse House turn?

Anne Hathaway gets political in the trailer for Dee Rees’ latest

By Charles Bramesco

The Last Thing He Wanted will open at Sundance before hitting Netflix.

Parasite will return to theaters in a new black-and-white version

By Charles Bramesco

Bong Joon-ho has prepared a monochrome edit of his award-winning comedy-thriller.

The Elephant Man is returning to cinemas in a new 4K restoration

By Charles Bramesco

David Lynch’s award-winning vision of alienation has never looked better.

Dolittle

By Charles Bramesco

Robert Downey Jr takes on the famous literary physician with predictably disastrous results.

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David Lynch grills a monkey in a new short on Netflix

By Charles Bramesco

It’s your basic hard-boiled cop interrogation, except with a primate and an experimental master.

Bait director Mark Jenkin is preparing his next feature

By Charles Bramesco

Enys Men is being billed as an “eco-sophical horror”, and begins shooting in Cornwall in May.

Roland Emmerich wants to crash the Moon into the Earth

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s next project will be a disaster movie of celestial proportions.

Spike Jonze’s Beastie Boys documentary is set for release this spring

By Charles Bramesco

The much-anticipated film covers 40 years of fighting for the right to party.

Quentin Tarantino will direct the Bounty Law episodes he wrote for OUATIH

By Charles Bramesco

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is getting its very own Jake Cahill-themed spin-off.

The French Dispatch sounds like Wes Anderson’s biggest movie yet

By Charles Bramesco

It’s not four-hours long, but the director’s latest is shaping up to be something major.

What can we expect from President Spike Lee at Cannes 2020?

By Charles Bramesco

Brooklyn’s finest will head up the competition jury when the festival returns for its 73rd edition.

What can we learn from this year’s Oscar nominations?

By Charles Bramesco

No love for J.Lo and a strong showing from Parasite as the shortlist for the 92nd Academy Awards is announced.

Hollywood’s major studios are bowing before the almighty algorithm

By Charles Bramesco

Following Netflix’s example, Warner Bros has announced plans to base major decisions on AI data.

Directors are uniting against the scourge of motion-smoothing

By Charles Bramesco

Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan are backing a new setting called “Filmmaker Mode”.

Kelly Reichardt blazes a trail in the First Cow trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The American writer/director’s poignant latest flattened audiences at last year’s New York Film Festival.

Timothée Chalamet will play Bob Dylan in a new James Mangold film

By Charles Bramesco

Timmy will tackle the controversial “Dylan goes electric” period in 1965.

Benoit Blanc will return in a sequel to Knives Out

By Charles Bramesco

The sleuth extraordinaire looks set to head up his very own franchise.

Christopher Nolan returns with the first trailer for Tenet

By Charles Bramesco

Secret agents! Car chases! Time travel? The thinking person’s blockbuster director is back...

Far-right magazines are using Ladj Ly’s criminal record for defamation

By Charles Bramesco

The French director of Les Misérables has been subjected to implicit racism.

A closer look at this year’s International Feature Oscar also-rans

By Charles Bramesco

The shortlist was too short for Monos and these other standouts from 2019.

Re-enter the danger zone with the first Top Gun: Maverick trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Tom Cruise returns as the fighter pilot par excellence in Joseph Kosinski’s high-octane sequel.

Money on the Street: A Conversation with the Safdie Brothers

By Charles Bramesco

The filmmaking siblings take us on a tour of New York’s Diamond District, the setting for their sensational Uncut Gems.

New York comes alive in the first trailer for In The Heights

By Charles Bramesco

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton success leaps onto the silver screen in 2020.

Carey Mulligan takes revenge in the Promising Young Woman trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The teaser for Killing Eve showrunner Emerald Fennell’s debut features a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’.

A newspaper is filing a lawsuit against Clint Eastwood’s new film

By Charles Bramesco

The Journal-Constitution wants to take Warner Bros to court over Richard Jewell.

Who you gonna call? The new Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer!

By Charles Bramesco

Even the reboots are getting rebooted, this one courtesy of writer/director Jason Reitman.

The devil’s in the retail in the trailer for Michael Winterbottom’s Greed

By Charles Bramesco

Steve Coogan headlines this satire about a ruthless fast-fashion mogul.

Disney gives Mulan the live-action treatment with a new trailer

By Charles Bramesco

A humble daughter, played by Liu Yifei, will save all of China in the upcoming remake.

007 returns in the first No Time to Die trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film will be the actor’s final appearance in the iconic tux.

Studio Ghibli’s films are being made available for digital purchase

By Charles Bramesco

GKIDS will bring the anime classics to the North American market.

Inside the strange, sadly telling Bolsonaro-DiCaprio feud

By Charles Bramesco

The ultra-conservative Brazilian president has blamed the Amazon’s forest fires on the actor-activist.

At last, everyone can see Jonathan Glazer’s eerie new short

By Charles Bramesco

Masked figures perform a ritual most sinister in the six-minute miniature.

The Two Popes

By Charles Bramesco

Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce give an acting masterclass in Fernando Meirelles’ Papal tête-à-tête.

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Will Lulu Wang’s The Farewell fare well in the Chinese market?

By Charles Bramesco

The American director’s acclaimed feature has been pulled from the release schedule.

Jane Austen gets a sumptuous revival in the Emma trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Anya Taylor-Joy takes the title role in Autumn de Wilde’s adaptation of the comedy of manners.

A change in US law is rewriting Hollywood’s playbook

By Charles Bramesco

Deregulating the major studios could spell bad news down the line.

Are they really going to release the Snyder Cut?

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s rumored alternate edit of Justice League may exist after all.

Eddie Murphy will star in a Beverly Hills Cop sequel for Netflix

By Charles Bramesco

The popular police comedy is the latest ’80s movie to be strip-mined for its nostalgia value.

Charlie’s Angels

By Charles Bramesco

Kristen Stewart leads a squad of lethal female spies in the latest reboot of the ’70s TV sensation.

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Disney has added cultural depiction warnings to some streaming titles

By Charles Bramesco

The House of Mouse has flagged “outdated” stereotypes on its new streaming platform – but is it enough?

Paul Thomas Anderson is going back to school for his next picture

By Charles Bramesco

Details have emerged of the US director’s ninth feature, about a California high school student.

Damien Chazelle sets his sights on Old Hollywood for his next film

By Charles Bramesco

Possibly featuring Emma Stone as Clara Bow, and with Brad Pitt in an unspecified role.

Classic TV turns into low-rent fun in the Fantasy Island trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Lucy Hale tortures her girlhood bully in the Blumhouse horrorshow.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s upcoming Memoria gets a big deal

By Charles Bramesco

The 2020 release will be Joe’s widest North American run to date.

Death is Pixar’s next adventure in the Soul trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The latest animated escapade from director Pete Docter features the vocal stylings of Jamie Foxx.

Elisabeth Moss is appearing in a new Invisible Man movie

By Charles Bramesco

Upgrade’s Leigh Whannell directs a modern twist on HG Wells’ classic sci-fi tale.

Ava DuVernay speaks out against an Oscar disqualification

By Charles Bramesco

She called out the Academy for ruling out Nigeria's submission.

Ridley Scott and Lady Gaga team up for Gucci murder thriller

By Charles Bramesco

The pop star is returning to the silver screen for a true-crime retelling of Maurizio Gucci’s assassination.

Old episodes of Friends are there (in cinemas) for you

By Charles Bramesco

Reruns of the popular ’90s sitcom will soon be screened in movie theaters.

The Academy is getting into streaming – and that could be good news

By Charles Bramesco

Awards screeners will be available to view online, drastically changing the physics of voting.

Do Netflix’s varied playback speeds pose a threat to filmmakers?

By Charles Bramesco

Brad Bird and Judd Apatow have spoken out against the streaming giant’s latest experiment.

Oscar Isaac will star in Paul Schrader’s next movie

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director is prepping The Card Counter, a tale of gambling and revenge.

Check out the new international poster for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

By Charles Bramesco

The latest promotional artwork for the South Korean master’s riotous domestic comedy is a thing of beauty.

Aaron Sorkin readies his Chicago 7 movie with a starry cast

By Charles Bramesco

Michael Keaton and William Hurt are the latest additions to the courtroom drama.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is returning to cinemas, longer than ever

By Charles Bramesco

Quentin Tarantino’s ninth feature is gearing up for its awards season run with 10 additional minutes of footage.

Zack Snyder has completed shooting his Army of the Dead

By Charles Bramesco

The director returns from the comic-book wilds for a zombie heist flick.

Dolemite Is My Name

By Charles Bramesco

Eddie Murphy is back to his live-wire best in this funkadelic biography of Blaxploitation icon Rudy Ray Moore.

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Who still needs to weigh in on the Marvel vs Auteurs debate?

By Charles Bramesco

The discourse will not be satisfied until Terrence Malick descends from his mountaintop stronghold.

The release of Tarantino’s latest has been cancelled in China

By Charles Bramesco

It may or may not have something to do with the much-discussed Bruce Lee scene.

Want to live at Stephen King’s house in Maine? Now you can

By Charles Bramesco

The horror novelist par excellence has turned his home into a museum/writers' retreat.

Revisiting Disney’s bizarre live-action run from the 1960s to the ’80s

By Charles Bramesco

Disney+ will soon be a repository for kiddie films forgotten by time.

Jia Zhangke will pivot to movie stardom with a role in front of the camera

By Charles Bramesco

The auteur makes his debut as actor in the upcoming Pseudo Idealist.

Martin Eden’s lead will suit up in leather for a Diabolik remake

By Charles Bramesco

Luca Marinelli will don the King of Terror’s cowl for Italian filmmakers Marco and Antonio Manetti.

Mati Diop makes her Oscars bid with the first Atlantics trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The French-Senegalese auteur won big at Cannes for her striking debut feature.

Netflix will bring The Irishman to Broadway (kind of)

By Charles Bramesco

The streaming disruptor’s latest gambit challenges what a movie theater really is.

Clint Eastwood looks for the truth in the Richard Jewell trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The director tackles the true story of the man who foiled a 1996 bombing plot.

Guy Ritchie stirs up some trouble in the first trailer for The Gentlemen

By Charles Bramesco

Matthew McConaughey, Hugh Grant and Charlie Hunnam team up for the director’s return to action comedy.

Iannucci does Dickens in The Personal History of David Copperfield trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Dev Patel stars as the plucky orphan of the 19th century literary legend.

Margot Robbie is a loopy Harley Quinn in the Birds of Prey trailer

By Charles Bramesco

She leads an all-female vigilante super team against Gotham’s criminal element.

The best examples of directors grilling directors

By Charles Bramesco

Conversations between masters of the medium yield rare insights into their creative process.

Adam Sandler can’t stop hustling in the Uncut Gems trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He's a tireless diamond dealer in the Safdie brothers' latest.

A look into this year’s Oscar submissions from around the globe

By Charles Bramesco

France pulled a surprising snub — could it pay off in a crowded field?

Todd Haynes tackles a legal thriller in the Dark Waters trailer

By Charles Bramesco

It's good-guy lawyer Mark Ruffalo versus the corporate machine in the upcoming film.

Greed – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Steve Coogan plays an odious fast fashion magnate in Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy.

Dolemite Is My Name – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Eddie Murphy brings his electric presence and a whole lot of F-bombs to this amusing behind-the-scenes filmmaker biopic.

The Truth – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

The Japanese master of family observation, Hirokazu Kore-eda, heads to Paris for his English language debut.

Everything is fantastic in the first trailer for About Endlessness

By Charles Bramesco

Roy Andersson's latest is a series of vignettes along the outskirts of war.

Steven Soderbergh plays the market in The Laundromat trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman lead the director’s Big Short-esque financial caper.

A John Wick themed escape room is coming to London

By Charles Bramesco

The ‘Excommunicado’ experience immerses players in a world of elite assassins.

Hustlers

By Charles Bramesco

Jennifer Lopez reminds the world of her white hot star wattage in this lapdancing Robin Hood caper film.

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Timothée Chalamet ascends in the first trailer for The King

By Charles Bramesco

He stars with Joel Edgerton and Robert Pattinson in David Michôd’s epic take on Shakespeare.

Todd Haynes has quietly prepared a new mystery drama

By Charles Bramesco

Mark Ruffalo goes gumshoe for Dark Waters, with Anne Hathaway and Tim Robbins co-starring.

Park Chan-wook’s new western comes together at Amazon

By Charles Bramesco

The Brigands of Rattlecreek may have lassoed Matthew McConaughey.

The Matrix series re-reloads with plans for another sequel

By Charles Bramesco

Keanu Reeves is on board, but with only one Wachowski sister attached.

Noah Baumbach’s anti-romance Marriage Story gets a pair of trailers

By Charles Bramesco

Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver come together, then drift apart.

Kristen Stewart enters the briny deep in the Underwater trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Something's terrorizing their ocean-floor research lab in the upcoming thriller.

Bong Joon-ho unleashes household mayhem in the Parasite trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Class conflict takes a bloody turn in the South Korean master’s Palme d’Or winner.

Harris Dickinson and Joe Alwyn set for The Souvenir sequel

By Charles Bramesco

The former, along with Charlie Heaton, is replacing Robert Pattinson in Joanna Hogg’s next film.

Press your petticoat, the Little Women trailer has arrived

By Charles Bramesco

Greta Gerwig directs Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, and Timothée Chalamet.

It’s faith versus fascism in the trailer for A Hidden Life

By Charles Bramesco

Whispering voiceover, drifting dolly shots, parents playing with children – Terrence Malick is back!

Eddie Murphy struts his stuff in the Dolemite Is My Name trailer

By Charles Bramesco

He plays Rudy Ray Moore in this salute to the blaxploitation legend.

What happens when real-world tragedy intersects with movie violence?

By Charles Bramesco

News that Universal is pulling all marketing for The Hunt reflects a sorry state of affairs.

Taika Waititi’s next film will be an inspirational football epic

By Charles Bramesco

Next Goal Wins tells the true story of the American Samoa team's unlikely victory.

TIFF reveals eclectic Platform Competition line-up for 2019

By Charles Bramesco

The festival’s sidebar includes new films from Julie Delpy and Sarah Gavron, plus Riz Ahmed as a heavy metal drummer.

You too can eat like an alien with the new Star Wars cookbook

By Charles Bramesco

Have dinner at Maz Kanata’s canteen from the comfort of your own kitchen.

Adrian Lyne will make his return with a Ben Affleck erotic thriller

By Charles Bramesco

Ana de Armas also stars in the director’s forthcoming ’90s throwback, titled Deep Water.

Descend into madness with the first trailer for The Lighthouse

By Charles Bramesco

Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star as two salty sea dogs in Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch.

Disney claims 2019’s box-office crown with an unprecedented gross

By Charles Bramesco

The Mouse House has 7.67 billion reasons to celebrate – but should the rest of the film world be concerned?

Zombieland returns from the dead with Double Tap trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin are back in this horror comedy sequel.

Ridley Scott readies a period piece with a trio of big-name writers

By Charles Bramesco

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Nicole Holofcener are on scriptwriting duties for The Last Duel.

Joker and Ford v Ferrari headline the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

Todd Philips, James Mangold, Taika Waititi, Rian Johnson and more are set to unveil new films this autumn.

Tom Hanks warms hearts in the A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood trailer

By Charles Bramesco

American TV personality Fred Rogers is receiving the biopic treatment.

Edward Furlong will return to the Terminator franchise for Dark Fate

By Charles Bramesco

The actor is finally old enough to reprise his T2: Judgement Day role.

The first Cats trailer is here, all alone in the moonlight

By Charles Bramesco

Take a first look at Taylor Swift and co in Tom Hooper’s musical adaptation – “digital fur technology” and all.

Arson at Kyoto Animation Studio takes both a human and artistic toll

By Charles Bramesco

A fire at one of Japan’s foremost animation houses has resulted in the loss of precious life and work.

Take a first look inside MINDHUNTER Season 2

By Charles Bramesco

David Fincher and Netflix’s crime thriller returns 16 August – with some familiar faces...

Quentin Tarantino is bringing his favourite ’60s movies to TV

By Charles Bramesco

The public will be able to bone up in anticipation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Why we’re excited about Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie

By Charles Bramesco

It seem like a ‘one for them’ job, but this is an exciting opportunity.

Peek into the UK’s secret history in The King’s Man trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Ralph Fiennes and Harris Dickinson star in the espionage prequel.

Three early Stanley Kubrick scripts have been unearthed

By Charles Bramesco

The draft screenplays, dating from the 1950s, all deal with themes of marital strife.

Brian De Palma’s next project will be his first crime novel

By Charles Bramesco

‘Are Snakes Necessary?’ will hit shelves next year.

Jessica Chastain gets spy thriller 355 up and running

By Charles Bramesco

The US star is producing, and she’s doing it her way.

Renée Zellweger goes over the rainbow in the Judy trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The Judy Garland biopic focuses on her 1969 London residency.

Here’s what to keep an eye out for at Comic-Con 2019

By Charles Bramesco

Albeit in a more sparsely attended year, some big names (read: Marvel) will return.

Rian Johnson goes Agatha Christie in the Knives Out trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Chris Evans, Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon and more star in the whodunit.

Young lovers go on the run in the Queen & Slim trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya play the black Bonnie and Clyde in the upcoming drama.

The Dark Crystal series announces major exhibit at BFI Southbank

By Charles Bramesco

You’ll be able to check out sets, puppets and costumes from Netflix’s spinoff of Jim Henson’s cult classic.

Rachel Morrison eyes directing debut with Flint boxing drama

By Charles Bramesco

The Oscar-nominated cinematographer is developing a feature based on a script by Barry Jenkins.

Scorsese and DiCaprio to reunite on Killers of the Flower Moon

By Charles Bramesco

The pair are teaming up for a murder mystery set in 1920s Oklahoma.

Chinese film festival pulls opening film at the last second

By Charles Bramesco

Hu Guan’s The Eight Hundred was mysteriously withdrawn from this year’s Shanghai Film Festival.

A game of hide-and-seek turns violent in the Ready or Not trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Muskets, battle axes and crossbows abound in Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s mystery horror.

Richard E Grant cast as former drag queen in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

By Charles Bramesco

He joins Sharon Horgan in a film adaptation of the hit British musical.

The trailer for Doctor Sleep picks up where The Shining left off

By Charles Bramesco

The new horror film gives Stanley Kubrick’s classic a chilling sequel.

Former Studio Ghibli artists are making a short for the Tokyo Olympics

By Charles Bramesco

A new Studio Ponoc film is the first anime ever commissioned by the IOC.

Here’s the story from A to Z: a new Spice Girls movie is coming

By Charles Bramesco

The Y2K-era pop quintet will zig-a-zig-ah once more in an animated feature vehicle.

Park Chan-wook’s Oldboy is returning to cinemas

By Charles Bramesco

The South Korean master’s name-making revenge saga is getting a shiny new restoration.

Brightburn

By Charles Bramesco

A bad seed crash-lands to earth in this darkly entertaining riff on the Superman legend.

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Jacques Audiard returns to TV for a hit spy series

By Charles Bramesco

The French filmmaker will direct multiple episodes in the fifth season of The Bureau.

The BFI brings classics to the States with a new streaming channel

By Charles Bramesco

The British Film Institute’s service features work from Orson Welles, Nicolas Roeg and more.

Barry Jenkins to direct biopic of choreographer and activist Alvin Ailey

By Charles Bramesco

Fox Searchlight backs the movie treatment of the influential African-American dancer’s life.

Warner Bros confirms Robert Pattinson as its new Batman

By Charles Bramesco

He’s fended off competition from Nicholas Hoult to land the role of the DC’s caped crusader.

Your childhood nightmares lie in wait in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance

By Charles Bramesco

Plunge headfirst into Jim Henson’s corner of the uncanny valley with the first trailer for Netflix’s series.

Mob wives strike back in the new trailer for The Kitchen

By Charles Bramesco

Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy, and Elisabeth Moss lead this close cousin of Widows.

A dress exudes malevolent energy in the In Fabric trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Peter Strickland’s follow-up to The Duke of Burgundy concerns the movements of an accursed, eye-catching garment.

Edgar Wright has begun production on his next feature

By Charles Bramesco

The writer/director’s psychological horror, Last Night in Soho, stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie.

Ridley Scott is still planning to direct another Alien prequel

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s next instalment in the franchise will complete the trilogy started by Prometheus and Covenant.

It Must Be Heaven – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman hits the road, but home follows close behind.

Frankie – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Isabelle Huppert gives a gentle tour de force in Ira Sachs’ existential Portuguese getaway.

Young Ahmed – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

The Dardenne brothers’ latest focuses on a young Islamic extremist with a deadly mission.

The Wild Goose Lake – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

Diao Yinan cements his status as a master filmmaker with another ingenious crime epic.

Rocketman

By Charles Bramesco

Elton John gets the paint-by-numbers biopic treatment in this jumble of troubled-genius clichés.

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Bacurau – first look review

By Charles Bramesco

In a secluded Brazilian village, tradition and modernity collide with bizarre, hyperviolent results.

Evil isn’t clowning around in the It Chapter Two trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The grown-up cast includes Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy and Bill Hader.

The Hustle

By Charles Bramesco

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson play a pair of con artists in this gender-flipped remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

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Ana Lily Amirpour is remaking Cliffhanger with Jason Momoa

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll play second banana to a female lead this update of the 1993 Sylvester Stallone vehicle.

Whole Lotta Love: A Led Zeppelin documentary is coming your way

By Charles Bramesco

A feature-length look one of the greatest bands in rock history is heading to the Cannes market.

Death comes to China in The Farewell’s first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Awkwafina gives a moving performance in the Sundance breakout.

Sylvester Stallone is remaking a South Korean gangster epic

By Charles Bramesco

The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil is coming to America.

Everything we know about Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch

By Charles Bramesco

Timothée Chalamet, Elisabeth Moss and Christoph Waltz are all entering the Wes-verse.

Gotta go fast to watch the new Sonic The Hedgehog trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Jim Carrey twiddles his orange moustache as the nefarious Dr Robotnik.

The new Final Cut promises a definitive Apocalypse Now

By Charles Bramesco

At the third time of asking, Francis Ford Coppola has finally cracked it.

The first trailer for Young Ahmed courts controversy

By Charles Bramesco

The premise of the Dardenne brothers’ latest has already raised eyebrows.

New casting for Bond 25 revealed in broadcast from Jamaica

By Charles Bramesco

New baddie Rami Malek will be joined by Ana de Armas and Billy Magnussen.

At the Oscars, new rules for Netflix and international films

By Charles Bramesco

Streaming isn’t going anywhere any time soon – and there’s a change in the Best Foreign Language Film category.

Get a double dose of Will Smith in the Gemini Man trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The actor plays both an assassin and his target in Ang Lee’s latest epic.

Rambo’s official slot machine, coming soon to a casino near you

By Charles Bramesco

A licensing deal with Millennium Films could lead to some odd tie-ins.

Spike Lee has started casting his new Civil War drama

By Charles Bramesco

Lucy Hale and Lucas Till are the first actors attached to Son of the South.

Nicolas Winding Refn’s Amazon series sets a path for Cannes

By Charles Bramesco

Too Old to Die Young will premiere in an Out of Competition slot next month.

A classic Nick Cave soundtrack is being released on vinyl for the first time

By Charles Bramesco

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford OST arrives on whiskey-coloured wax this month.

Little

By Charles Bramesco

Regina Hall is transformed into a younger version of herself in this derivative age-swap comedy.

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Free Solo directors plan heist thriller with Jake Gyllenhaal

By Charles Bramesco

Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi are poised to make their first foray into narrative filmmaking.

Bong Joon-ho ratchets up the dread in first Parasite trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The South Korean master has returned to his homeland for this follow-up to Okja.

André Holland joins Damien Chazelle’s Netflix series

By Charles Bramesco

The Moonlight and High Flying Bird star is the first casting announcement for musical drama The Eddy.

Saudi Arabia is building a movie economy from the ground up

By Charles Bramesco

The country’s newly announced multi-billion dollar film program has global implications.

Joaquin Phoenix puts on a happy face in the Joker trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Director Todd Phillips gives the clown prince of crime a tragic slant.

Terrence Malick’s latest film is now called A Hidden Life

By Charles Bramesco

The project formerly known as Radegund looks set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

Jim Jarmusch returns with the first The Dead Don’t Die trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The director’s zombie-themed latest stars Adam Driver, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray.

Studio Ghibli wins April Fools’ Day (again)

By Charles Bramesco

The Japanese animation house continued a noble tradition by teasing a fake upcoming sequel.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are getting into the legal weed business

By Charles Bramesco

The Pineapple Express pair are launching their own official weed brand.

Angelina Jolie poised to join Chloe Zhao’s Marvel movie

By Charles Bramesco

The A-list star is in talks to join the rising indie director’s next film The Eternals.

Brace for nostalgia, the Toy Story 4 trailer is here

By Charles Bramesco

Butt-kicking Bo Peep! Evil ventriloquist dummies! An existential fork!

The Cannes-Netflix stalemate continues with a full shutout in 2019

By Charles Bramesco

Don’t expect to see Martin Scorsese on the Croisette this year.

Five Feet Apart

By Charles Bramesco

Two terminally-ill teens fall in love in this all-the-feels ‘rom-traum’ from director Justin Baldoni.

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Latest Avengers: Endgame trailer teases new uniforms, haircuts

By Charles Bramesco

Hawkeye has a mohawk in the new promo for the Russo brothers’ Marvel melee.

Broadway smash The Humans is coming to the silver screen

By Charles Bramesco

A24 has tapped Richard Jenkins, Steven Yeun, and Amy Schumer.

Love, Death & Robots

By Charles Bramesco

This NSFW animated anthology sees Tim Miller and David Fincher team up to disastrous effect.

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Steve Bannon gets the documentary treatment in The Brink trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The notorious Trump advisor is the subject of Alison Klayman’s latest.

Model students raise a little hell in the Booksmart trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein star in a distaff Superbad.

The Late Night trailer shakes up a hidebound talk show institution

By Charles Bramesco

Emma Thompson is an aging TV host; Mindy Kaling is the new staff writer challenging her to do more.

Netflix is turning ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ into a miniseries

By Charles Bramesco

The Spanish-language show will be the first filmed version of Gabriel García Márquez’s literary classic.

Star-packed Roger Ailes drama gets an awards season release

By Charles Bramesco

John Lithgow will play the late, disgraced head of Fox News.

Oscar Isaac wants to lead the upcoming Metal Gear Solid film

By Charles Bramesco

He’s already nailed Solid Snake’s permanent five o’clock shadow.

Rami Malek poised for villain role in Bond 25

By Charles Bramesco

Whether the Oscar-winning actor will make use of his own teeth has yet to be specified.

Pokémon run Pok-amok in the new Detective Pikachu trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Ryan Reynolds’ Pikachu is on the case (and a dangerous dose of caffeine.)

A new Blue Velvet release will contain a trove of lost material

By Charles Bramesco

Nearly an hour of unused scenes and alternate takes accompany the Criterion disc.

Denzel Washington likes Michael B Jordan for his next feature

By Charles Bramesco

Journal for Jordan, his directorial follow-up to Fences, will tally the cost of war on the home front.

Crank up the volume on the trailer for punk epic Her Smell

By Charles Bramesco

Elisabeth Moss whirls through director Alex Ross Perry’s latest like a hurricane.

Daniel Kaluuya may star in a different sort of Black Panther film

By Charles Bramesco

The Get Out star is in talks to play civil rights martyr Fred Hampton in a new drama.

Watch the trailer for The Souvenir, Joanna Hogg’s memoir of passion

By Charles Bramesco

Honor Swinton Byrne and her mother Tilda star in the critically-lauded drama.

American Girl dolls to come alive in new live-action film

By Charles Bramesco

Could this be Edwardian-era tot Samantha's big break?

Witness the origins of Middle-Earth in the Tolkien trailer

By Charles Bramesco

The new film explores the younger years of the Lord of the Rings author.

The Fab Four are no more in the Yesterday trailer

By Charles Bramesco

In Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis’ new comedy, the Beatles have been erased from history.

Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson fleece rich men in The Hustle trailer

By Charles Bramesco

This remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels reverses the gender dynamic.

Lars von Trier is now making his movies into diamonds

By Charles Bramesco

There is also a VR component to the strange new exhibition.

Will Ferrell reprises Ron Burgundy role for a new podcast

By Charles Bramesco

Listen to the first episode in the series now, recorded inside a glass case of emotion.

Jia Zhangke takes up the iPhone for a new short film

By Charles Bramesco

The Chinese director’s The Bucket is much more than a commercial.

Get four chilling glimpses of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

By Charles Bramesco

A quartet of ghouls appear in new previews for the horror anthology.

Hobbs and Shaw gets a testosterone-fuelled first trailer

By Charles Bramesco

Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham join forces in the Fast & Furious spin-off.

Pedro Almodóvar gets pensive in the Pain & Glory trailer

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Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star in the Spanish master’s 21st film.

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The director will draw on over 55 hours of never-before-seen footage.

Julie Dash will fight the power with an Angela Davis biopic

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The civil rights leader will be the subject of the director’s first narrative feature since 1991.

RIP Dušan Makavejev – Founder of the Black Wave and lifelong radical

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The pillar of midcentury Yugoslav cinema leaves an antic, subversive body of work.

After much delay, Xavier Dolan’s latest finally gets a trailer

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The Death and Life of John F Donovan has had a long road to theatres.

Fiona Shaw and Kristin Scott Thomas join the Fleabag cast

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s breakout comedy is returning this year with some familiar faces.

Matthew McConaughey kicks back in new The Beach Bum trailer

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He’s taking it nice and easy in Harmony Korine’s follow-up to Spring Breakers.

What will the future of Netflix look like?

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The streaming giant has undergone a number of interesting shakeups in recent weeks.

Five things we learned from the 2019 Oscars nominations

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Key takeaways from this year’s slate of Academy selections.

Steven Soderbergh takes on the NBA in High Flying Bird trailer

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The director shot the feature on an iPhone 7 modified with special lenses.

An eerie new trailer for Claire Denis’ High Life has entered orbit

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The French director’s sci-fi masterpiece stars Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche.

Billy Zane is playing Marlon Brando in a new biopic

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Waltzing with Brando tracks the late Hollywood icon’s strange partnership with an architect.

Everything we know about Denis Villeneuve’s Dune

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Checking in on the director’s long-gestating, Timothée Chalamet-starring sci-fi epic.

Jim Jarmusch teams up with experimental lute player for new album

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‘An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil’ is out 8 February via Sacred Bones.

Watch the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s new Bob Dylan documentary

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story is set for release on Netflix on 12 June.

Art will kill you in the Velvet Buzzsaw trailer

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Dan Gilroy reteams with Jake Gyllenhaal for his urbane new psychothriller.

Regina Hall is 12 again in the trailer for Little

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She stars alongside Issa Rae in the upcoming body-change comedy.

Could you watch a film inside a coffin?

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A Swedish film festival is offering attendees a macabre new viewing experience.

The 76th Golden Globes – a night in soundbites

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Silly, stirring, or sage, here are the evening’s choice quotes.

Fifty Shades Freed

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Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan go out with a whimper in this mildly titillating trilogy capper.

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Steven Spielberg recounts the story of the Pentagon Papers – with one eye on Donald Trump – in this strangely unsatisfying political drama.

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Stronger

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David Gordon Green teams up with Jake Gyllenhaal to bring us a biopic that’s harder, better, faster...

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There’s plenty to like about this fun and frisky comedy, not least the brilliant female cast.

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The American star discusses her role in the claustrophobic thriller It Comes at Night.

Baby Driver

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Edgar Wright’s finely-tuned latest is a glorious joyride that will leave you spinning.

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Toshio Matsumoto’s kaleidoscopic masterpiece offers a vital perspective on gender, sexuality and identity.

Daniel Clowes: ‘Wilson is like my nemesis – but I admire him also’

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The renowned American comic artist discusses the latest adaptation of his work.

Moonlight

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Barry Jenkins’ low-key examination of black life in America is an aching romance of the very highest order.

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A Massachusetts native offers a candidly personal take on Manchester by the Sea.

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