This film – the title of which has been translated as Night Courier for English-speaking audiences – has been a huge box office hit on
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Mary Poppins at 60: a dazzling Disney masterpiece that hasn’t lost its shine
To anyone who grew up with the film version of Mary Poppins – which is to say, on the 60th anniversary of its release, several
‘He isn’t just a pet. He is a character’: Black Dog director Guan Hu on filming an indescribable bond
The year is 2008 and China is opening to the world. Announcements about the summer Olympics in Beijing are blaring out from loudspeakers across the
Paradise Is Burning review – teens survive on wits in dreamy coming-of-age drama
Like an unusually designed coat featuring quirky details and an interesting fabric choice from a young designer’s first collection, Swedish writer-director Mika Gustafson’s feature debut
‘It made him an A-lister’: John Ford’s breakthrough film The Iron Horse at 100
Had the Oscars been around in 1924, when director John Ford’s epic western The Iron Horse was released, the critically lauded film would have swept
Natural Born Killers at 30: Oliver Stone’s brash button-pusher remains tiresome
By way of introduction, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers offers grainy, black-and-white images of the arid south-west that flicker disjointedly to a red tint. There
Broca’s Aphasia review – Taiwanese sex doll service offers eerie insight into male domain
Named after a neurological disorder that impairs speech, Su Ming-yen’s documentary feature debut is preoccupied with the loss of human intimacy. Broca’s Aphasia follows a
Last Things review – stones yield up their memories in poetic vision of life on Earth
Moving from the microscopic to the intergalactic, artist and film-maker Deborah Stratman offers a strikingly expansive vision of life on Earth, one that deliberately decentres
The return of Beetlejuice, Gladiator, Paddington and the Joker – the best films of autumn 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Tim Burton’s fantasy horror-comedy, with Michael Keaton as the anarchic supernatural exorcist Beetlejuice, was a big hit in the 1980s. Now, Burton returns
Bad apple? How Disney’s Snow White remake turned sour
In theory, it must have sounded like a good idea. At least to Hollywood movie studio executives keen to make big bucks by playing it