Category: Film 1

Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different as William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical romp Barry Lyndon (1844) and Vladimir Nabokov’s erotic fantasy Lolita (1955). Even Kubrick, however, allowed for the possibility… Continue reading White Noise review: director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo’s ‘unadaptable’ novel

Nothing about The Green Knight, the new film from director David Lowery, is comfortable. From its opening scene, where Gawain (Dev Patel) sits in an empty throne room, a crown menacingly hovering above his head as flames suddenly engulf him, this film is wonderfully unsettling. The Green Knight is a reimagining of the Middle English… Continue reading The Green Knight review: a wonderfully unsettling cinematic reimagining of the medieval story of Sir Gawain

Christopher Andrews’ “Bring Them Down,” starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, Sean Dunn’s “The Fall Of Sir Douglas Weatherford,” and Marianne Elliott’s “The Salt Path,” featuring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs, are among the eight films selected for the Great 8 showcase. This showcase presents new UK feature films from first and second-time UK filmmakers… Continue reading BFI and British Council reveal great eight showcase for Cannes

A longtime passion project for Coppola, who first conceived the film in 1979 and actively started developing it in 1983, it underwent significant delays and numerous cancellations over the years, until Coppola revived the project in 2019 by spending $120 million of his own money on the film, which was filmed from November 2022 to… Continue reading TRAILERWATCH: Megalopolis

Director Rachel Lambert’s sweet and sedate film Sometimes I Think About Dying frames suicidal thoughts as a strategy for survival. In the film, introverted office worker Fran (Daisy Ridley) takes solace in increasingly elaborate, surreal and aesthetic fantasies of her own death, including hanging from a crane, lying dead in the woods and being attacked… Continue reading Sometimes I Think About Dying Review: finally, a film about women’s mental health without the cliches

As a mother trying to raise a daughter free from the gendered stereotypes of my own childhood, I steered her clear of Barbie dolls. I felt compelled to nudge my now 11-year-old away from the Mattel mainstay for the same reasons I tried to avoid the shallow frivolity of all those Disney princesses waiting around… Continue reading How I learned to stop worrying and love the doll – a feminist philosopher’s journey back to Barbie

Get ready, folks! Marvel Jesus is back! The Time Variance Authority (TVA), a bureaucratic organization that exists outside of time and space and monitors the timeline, pulls Wade Wilson / Deadpool from his quiet life and sets him on a mission with Wolverine that will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).

‘The Boys’ are back. Discover the mind-blowing trailer for Season 4, which premieres on Prime Video on 13 June. In The Boys season 4, the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to… Continue reading TRAILERWATCH: The Boys – Season 4

Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes Competition entry “Parthenope” has been acquired by A24 for North American distribution. Inspired by the Greek myth of the siren who threw herself into the sea after failing to seduce Ulysses with her voice, “Parthenope” marks Sorrentino’s seventh Cannes Competition selection. Previous selections include “Youth” in 2015, as well as the eventual… Continue reading A24 acquires Paolo Sorrentino’s Cannes Competition entry ‘Parthenope’

According to this Production Weekly, Michael Mann’s “Heat 2” is scheduled to begin production in the fourth quarter of 2024, likely in October or November. In a recent interview with Radio France, Mann confirmed that he is currently in pre-production for “Heat 2” and expressed that, judging by the stack of papers on his desk,… Continue reading Michael Mann’s ‘Heat 2′ to Shoot in October or November