by Emma Fraser
With TV’s biggest night of the year just behind us, we take a look at a new crop of series embracing the medium for what it does best.
by Edie Barnabas
Through films about films and characters in the act of watching, a new wave of trans filmmakers is transforming a medium that has long distorted their image into one that can reflect their own.
by Billie Walker
If hagsploitation wasn’t bad enough, a new spate of male-directed horror films is displaying a worrying reliance on anti-abortion rhetoric.
by Sammi Gale
Before Monkey Jesus there was Whistler’s Mother. One writer reflects on a childhood haunted by Bean’s art restoration efforts.
by Kevin Bui
With The Mandalorian & Grogu on track to flop for Disney, did the House of Mouse steer their TIE Fighter too close to the sun?
by Rebecca Buckley
Georgi M. Unkovski’s feature debut is an offbeat gem about a teenage music enthusiast contending with familial fallout.
by Luisa Blacker
Oxford cinema Ultimate Picture Palace rallies the local community to secure lease extension amid growing threats to the theatrical experience.
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.
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.
Two decades on from the beginning of the MeToo movement, more and more filmmakers are choosing to explore the lasting impact of sexual violence rather than restage traumatic events.
by Miriam Balanescu
André is an Idiot is the latest in a line of refreshing films that tackle the taboo of death head-on.
by Blake Simons
Iron Lung has unexpectedly turned the box office upside down – what led a YouTube legend to take on Hollywood with his horror feature debut?
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