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Looney Tunes: The Day the Earth Blew Up review –…

The Looney Tunes have admittedly fallen on hard times in recent years. As far as animation was concerned, David Zaslav’s feckless régime at Warner Brothers

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The President’s Cake review – polished but…

Few birthday celebrations can ever match the surreal spectacle that the Iraqi state would enforce each year that Saddam Hussein would complete a lap around the

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Death with Dignity: the documentaries…

“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote the film critic Amos Vogel in

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How gaming YouTuber Markiplier became an…

Markiplier is far from the only YouTuber to see success lately in theatrical cinema – Talk to Me filmmakers the Philippou Brothers and Skinamarink visionary Kyle Edward Ball spring

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The Chronology of Water review – Imogen Poots…

The transformative power of water lies at the heart of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, informed by her adolescent dreams of swimming being her escape

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Mika Imai: ‘There is such an affinity between…

Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges preconceived notions of what Japanese

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Nouvelle Vague review – there are other, better…

It is ironic that Richard Linklater has chosen to homage a film carved out of spontaneous new techniques with one so mired in contrivances that it

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Return To Silent Hill review – if not entirely…

If anyone was going to try to adapt Silent Hill 2, one of video gaming’s most spectacular artistic achievements, you could do worse than French stylist

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100 films to look forward to in 2026 – part two

61. Queen at Sea (Lance Hamer) February 2026 (Berlinale Première) Back in 2008, Lance Hamer was a name on everyone’s lips due to his massively impressive

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Chihiro Amano: ‘It was like I hit a wall in all…

Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges preconceived notions of what Japanese