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,...
Every year on July 30, International Friendship Day is celebrated to inspire people around the world to commemorate the spirit of camaraderie, solidarity, companionship and mutual understanding. In...
“A Russian wouldn’t be a Russian if they didn’t steal something!” an anonymous woman wryly exclaims with a hint of pride in Oksana Karpovych’s Berlinale-premiering Intercepted, a probing...
Since my father died, I will occasionally sit down and re-watch some of his favorite movies (and usually force my son to do so as well. He complains about everything being “vintage,” but he...
There are experiences in movie theaters that are magical. IF (Imaginary Friends) gave me one of those. From the very first minute, you know you're in front of a story that will stay with you and...
Late in I Saw the TV Glow, Owen — physically diminished, wracked with chronic asthma — still works in a family entertainment centre, all ball pits and insincerity. Owen is peripheral, a flicker...
