The head of Vladimir Lenin's statue hanging from a helicopter marks a turning point in Good Bye, Lenin! The 2002 film by Wolfgang Becker and starring Daniel Brühl recounts the aftermath of the fall...
Some films tread gingerly around the edges of horror, harassing the audience with hints of dread before retreating to the safety of the familiar. Longlegs, however, is not one of those films....
If you’re a horror fan like me — with normal friends and family, who won’t jump at the chance to see a tale of terror with you on the big screen — I have some good news. Longlegs is now...
Priest, the 1994 film written by Jimmy McGovern and directed by Antonia Bird, meant a lot to me as a young adult trying to emerge from Roman Catholicism into a place where I could be ok with being...
Every year, August 26 is celebrated as International Dog Day, and it is a very special occasion that brings together dog lovers from all over the world. Founded in 2004 by pet expert and animal...
The Boy and the Heron is the story of a boy named Mahito who can’t accept his mother's death. One day, a mysterious heron tells him that his mother is alive and that if he wants to see her, he must...
The sadomasochistic ordeal of watching any Alien film is the perverse fascination when a new filmmaker to the franchise springs their trap on the unsuspecting human victims. We want to be suitably...
This month over at Five Books For we've been looking at summery books - the kind of book where you can feel the heat rising off the pages. Perfect for reading by the pool of you're on holiday, or...
Make no mistake, Mia Goth is a “fucking movie star” and her last outing as Maxine Minx in Maxxxine, Ti West’s exhilarating conclusion to their X trilogy cements that fact in blood, gristle and...
Filmmaker and cultural critic dream hampton was both shaping and reshaping the world around her decades before she was named in the TIME 100 most influential people list of 2019 (not coincidentally,...
