Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point is a Yuletide classic in the making, and its director has a sincere fondness for the holiday season.
By Erin Mussett
Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year's London Film Festival.
In two of 2024's best films – Bird and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – reality blurs with fantasy when the world becomes too cruel to stand.
With screen-to-stage adaptations popping up in the West End every week, what's caused the theatre world to rely so heavily on cinema for source material?
By Chloe Walker
One of the greatest actors of all time found a compelling niche starring in some of the decade's zaniest high-concept thrillers.
While the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?
The biggest celebration of cinema in Japan shows promise as an event in the city's cultural calendar.
The German star unlocks the process of deep immersion that led him to discovering his character in Andrea Arnold's Bird.
The role of charismatic chancer Bug in Andrea Arnold's Bird feels like a victory lap for Hollywood's most unlikely new darling.
By Nia Childs
One of Britain's foremost chroniclers of life in the economic margins opens up about the pressures of modern filmmaking and her desire to let audiences take what they want from her films.
Kondo Ryota's debut feature is a chilling ghost story that begins with a videotape – but that's where the similarities to Ringu end in this impressive new J-Horror.
By Emma Cieslik
A crucial tool for visually impaired cinema lovers yet often undervalued by the industry, it's about time that audio description's worth is heard.
An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida's impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.
A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii's offbeat sophomore feature.
Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor's army during the Boshin War.
Erika Lust's C*m With Me tour celebrates 20 years of the filmmaker's work, but how can welcoming porn back into cinemas challenge audience attitudes?
By Tyler Thier
This Halloween, no body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.
The director of the cult classic Korean wave sci-fi comedy reflects on his wild debut two decades on, and the forthcoming remake from Yorgos Lanthimos.