Ari Aster

Beau is Afraid

By Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.

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Ari Aster’s next film has found its lead in Joaquin Phoenix

By Charles Bramesco

He’ll play “one of the most successful entrepreneurs of all time” in Disappointment Blvd, for A24.

Know The Score: Bobby Krlic on Alien

By Thomas Hobbs

The Midsommar composer, better known as The Haxan Cloak, reveals how he drew inspiration from Jerry Goldsmith’s classic soundtrack.

Bobby Krlic aka The Haxan Cloak on scoring Midsommar

By Paul Weedon

The British musician discusses collaborating with director Ari Aster on his haunting folk horror.

Midsommar

By Hannah Strong

Florence Pugh runs afoul of a Swedish cult in director Ari Aster’s toothless follow-up to Hereditary.

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Watch the first trailer for Florence Pugh folk horror Midsommar

By Adam Woodward

Something wicked this way comes... in Ari Aster’s follow-up to Hereditary.

25 films we’d like to see at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival

By Adam Woodward

Could these be the directors vying for this year’s Palme d’Or?

60 films to look forward to in 2019 – part 1

By Rory Marsh

The ninth film by Quentin Tarantino and a Leos Carax musical are among our hot tips for the year ahead.

The 30 best films of 2018

By Little White Lies

Our annual countdown of the movies that made the biggest impression on us this year, from Hereditary to The House That Jack Built.

Mommie Dearest: The changing face of maternal horror cinema

By Leila Latif

A Quiet Place and Hereditary are the latest films to challenge idealised notions of motherhood.

Hereditary

By Hannah Strong

A painful sense of impending dread fills every frame of Ari Aster’s searing cinematic debut.

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Toni Collette: ‘This film tackles the idea that it’s taboo to talk about grief’

By Hannah Strong

The star of Ari Aster’s Hereditary talks grief, audiobooks and why we should all go to the cinema more often.

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