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On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

The death of a beloved uncle in a middle-class Zambian family brings some difficult truths to light in Rungano Nyoni’s surreal second feature.

The Girl with the Needle – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Magnus Von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.

Wild Diamond – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young woman with her heart set on social media stardom gets a shot at fame when she’s offered an audition for a reality series in Agathe Riedinger’s feature debut.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Miller you absolute mad man

by Hannah Strong

George Miller fires up his war rig and roars across the Australian outback once more, this time telling the origin story of the fearsome Imperator Furiosa.

The Second Act – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.

Hoard review – proudly strange and provocative

by David Jenkins

Seek out this stunning, empathetic and radical British debut from first-time British filmmaker Luna Carmoon.

Discover the Japanese fishing town that inspired Studio Ghibli’s Ponyo

by Adam Marshall

On a visit to the Edo-period town of Tomonoura, Adam Marshall explores the real – and imagined – backdrop to one of Hayao Miyazaki’s most beloved films.

Alice Rohrwacher: ‘The past must be a living thing’

by Hannah Strong

The Italian filmmaker on the magical mystery tour into the past that makes up her gorgeous latest, La Chimera.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | La Chimera | Orpheus (1950)

On Truth & Movies this week we delve into the 10^th instalment of the Planet Of the Apes saga, gaze upon the masterpiece that is Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera and revisit Jean Cocteau’s retelling of the Greek myth Orpheus.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review – stop, I want to get off!

by Adam Woodward

The latest instalment in the simian cinema canon is a weak follow-up to the narrative established in its predecessors, as monkey in-fighting develops between various tribes.