Features

The Report and cinema’s changing attitude to on-screen torture

By Prahlad Srihari

Scott Z Burns’ docudrama exposes some hard truths about the CIA’s anti-terrorism tactics.

In praise of Natalie Portman’s women in power

By Emily Gett

From Senator Padmé to Jacqueline Kennedy, the actor has always relished playing complex, self-empowered characters.

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.

How Sarah Connor kept the Terminator franchise running

By Amanda Keats

Linda Hamilton’s return in Dark Fate reminds us why her complex heroine is so vital to the series.

Watch this collection of six short films about Black Britain

By Little White Lies

Discover new work by exciting young talent courtesy of Random Acts and Channel 4.

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.

Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen is the most incendiary show of 2019

By Hannah Strong

HBO’s remix of Alan Moore’s graphic novel is a strange, complicated beast – and all the better for it.

Six of the best new LGBTQ+ short films from around the world

By Ronan Doyle

This year’s Iris Prize Film Festival in Cardiff showcased emerging trends across the spectrum of queer cinema.

Exploring indigenous Canadian films at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

By Justine Smith

This year’s edition of the Montreal-based festival showed the value of giving marginalised native filmmakers a platform.

Is this the clearest insight into Martin Scorsese’s moral perspective?

By Jake Cole

Released in 1999, Bringing Out the Dead is a clear response to the perceived ambiguity of Taxi Driver.

South Korea’s female filmmakers are finally making their voices heard

By Darren Carver-Balsiger

At the 63rd BFI London Film Festival, five films directed by women signalled a new chapter for Korean cinema.

Did Ethan Coen deliver the strangest screenwriting lecture ever?

By Flavia Ferrucci

The writer-directors maps out the past, present and future of cinema through its depiction of… surgery?

Know The Score: Merrill Garbus on the joys of Clue

By Thomas Hobbs

The lead singer of art pop duo Tune-Yards’ discusses the cartoony genius of John Morris’ famed score.

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.

Is this one of the great lesser-known location-based horrors?

By Adam Scovell

Robert Fuest’s And Soon the Darkness foreshadows both The Wicker Man and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

Is The Peanut Butter Falcon a watershed moment for on-screen disability?

By Leigh Singer

The film’s directors and star Zack Gottsagen, who has Down syndrome, discuss overcoming industry stigma.

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