La Belle Epoque
Love, memory and nostalgia come to the fore in Nicolas Bedos’s second feature La Belle Epoque (now on release), a … [ Read More ]
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The White Crow
Managing to make Black Swan look like a bit of fluff, The White Crow charts the true story of Rudolf … [ Read More ]
Steve McQueen’s Widows: heist movie feels like a strange move for this director – but it isn’t
At first glance, Widows feels like a strange pick for a director like Steve McQueen. His first film Hunger (2008) … [ Read More ]
The Beginner’s Guide to Anime, No. 177 – Momotaro, Sacred Sailors
Off all the anime covered in this column, this one comes top in two respects: it’s the oldest, and it’s … [ Read More ]
Film of the Day – Life, Animated
Roger Ross Williams, the director of the Oscar winning short documentary Music by Prudence, may have another golden statuette in … [ Read More ]
New trailer: The Idol
A new trailer has been released for Hany Abu-Assad’s The Idol, a film based on a true story that is … [ Read More ]
Second Coming
Magic and realism combine like Jamaican patois and cockney English in Debbie Tucker Green’s debut feature. The result of this … [ Read More ]
The Beginner’s Guide to Anime, No. 102 – The Little Norse Prince
For the next few weeks The Beginner’s Guide will looking at some anime films. This time we are looking at … [ Read More ]
The Book of Life
When the Academy Awards were announced this year there were two main complaints: only white performers were nominated in the … [ Read More ]
