Features

The Elastic Worlds of the Looney Tunes

by Kambole Campbell

With insights from The Day The Earth Blew Up director Peter Browngardt, we salute the mad, mad, mad, mad worlds of Bugs, Daffy and co.

How the Scream franchise's mask slipped

by Patrick Sproull

Between the firing of Melissa Barrera for supporting Palestine and a staunch refusal to innovate, the once-beloved horror series has reached new lows.

Diving into the SXSW film line-up

The new satirical comedy film from Boots Riley kicks off Austin’s 2026 celebration of movies, music and innovation.

Daniel Blumberg: ​‘The ingredients were there to make something special and unique’

by Claire Biddles

Meeting the compositional maestro behind the complex web of sounds and rhythms in Mona Fastvold’s The Testament of Ann Lee.

Amanda Seyfried: ‘This movie has changed me’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The star of The Testament of Ann Lee expounds on the joys of giving yourself over to cinema.

Reprise and the search for authorial integrity

by Baneet Sarai

With Sentimental Value winning universal acclaim, we visit Joachim Trier’s 2006 debut about two best friends attempting to become literary greats.

In praise of crying at the cinema

by Ying-Di Yin

The dark of the matinée provides a safe space for emotional outpouring.

Mona Fastvold: ‘I’m always searching for the perfect choreography between the camera and the performer’

by Marina Ashioti

The maker of The Testament of Ann Lee on creating a radical biography that’s forged in ecstatic song.

What Wasteman shows us about the reality of prisons and the potential for abolition

by Molly Lipson

Cal McMau’s visceral feature debut, set in a men’s prison, provides a useful lens for considering how pop culture informs our understanding of policing and justice.

RIP Frederick Wiseman – In remembrance of the American dean of documentary

by David Jenkins

Our homage to one of the great filmmakers of the modern age who leaves behind him a corpus of worked unmatched in the world of film and art.