by Emma Fraser
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
by Simon Bland
With the first ever digital release of The Raccoons’ iconic long lost soundtrack, a ‘fauxstalgia’ for the Canadian cult kids show has curiously made the UK the series’ strongest fanbase.
by Billie Walker
Anna Paquin’s brooding performance as a teen growing up in a period of grief and heavily-enforced American patriotism is a perfect microcosm of the nation’s tragedy and complicity.
by Jonah Jeng
The original live-action series made mutation and posthuman possibility its playground, and Milla Jovovich a queer icon of reinvention. Ahead of Zach Cregger’s reboot, we take a closer look at the films’ cultural legacy.
by Haaniyah Awale Angus
A BFI season curated by Annouchka de Andrade on her mother’s work prompts questions about restoration, cultural memory, and the endurance of political art in an era of flattened aesthetics.
by Emily Jisoo Bowles
On the anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender and the end of colonial rule in Korea, we examine how Park Chan-wook folds political critique into the visual pleasures of his erotic thriller.
by Annalisa Cawthra
As her sex-addicted intimacy coordinator takes the short film world by storm, we look at how Louisa Connolly-Burnham champions women-led storytelling both in front and behind the camera.
by Edie Barnabas
Through films about films and characters in the act of watching, a new wave of trans filmmakers is transforming a medium that has long distorted their image into one that can reflect their own.
by David Jenkins
The Spanish maestro is in confessional mode with his stirring and self-reflexive latest, Bitter Christmas.
by Luke Charnley
The far-right‘s increasingly hostile culture war against migrants echoes the fantasies of social collapse that weaponised British vigilante cinema in the 2000s.
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