There are many indelible images in David Cronenberg’s Crimes of the Future but none so tortuous as Viggo Mortensen’s performance artist, Saul Tenser, contorted on a feeding chair grown from bone...
Like many film journalists, not to mention jury members, who caught Hogir Hirori’s now discredited Sabaya at this year’s Sundance I was riveted, calling it (in the intro to my interview with...
This review contains some spoilers, but still leaves plenty to anticipate. The new installment of the Duffer brothers’ hit series is fast-paced, funny and genuinely creepy. Stranger Things returns...
Harper Marlowe, the protagonist in Alex Garland’s astounding third feature, Men, has one of those names that conjures up an array of literary possibility. Could she be part Harper Lee, observing...
The 'true crime' phenomenon seems unstoppable on the HBO platform. Shortly after launching We own this City and Tokyo Vice, HBO Max has surprised us with the series The Staircase, another show...
On its surface, Mind Over Murder - the titillatingly titled six-part doc series that debuted June 20 on HBO - might seem merely the latest addition to a bloated, true-crime juggernaut. And yet in the...
Matt Weaver, University of Portsmouth Disney-Pixar’s latest animated escapade is about to hit our cinema screens. It’s the origin story of one of their most beloved characters – Toy Story’s...
The collective eyes of the cinema-going public may be held aloft (quite rightly) watching Tom Cruise fly jets for real in Top Gun: Maverick but another, more caustic film has made its way onto VOD...
The South Korean series Juvenile Justice has become one of Netflix’s most popular non-English-language titles. It is an insightful legal drama that raises important ethical questions about the...
Juliet Bashore’s Kamikaze Hearts, originally released in 1986 and now set to screen in a new 2K restoration by the UCLA Film & Television Archive (May 13 in NYC at BAM and May 20 in LA at...
