Studio Ponoc – the Japanese animation studio founded by Studio Ghibli alumni, which gave us Mary and the Witch’s Flower – returns with a playful
Category: Films
Unicorns review – drama of queer south Asian club culture with added superstar drag queens
Welsh-Egyptian film-maker Sally El Hosaini made a supremely confident debut in 2012 with My Brother the Devil, about a young gay Muslim drug dealer in
Problemista review – quirky hipster comedy lets Tilda Swinton go for the laughs
An explosion of pass-agg hipster quirkiness is what’s offered here, an everything-everywhere-all-at-onceuniverse of cutesy vulnerability and pseudo-childlike ersatz charm. Salvadorian-American comic and SNL alumnus Julio
What Remains review – sky squid confounds Stellan Skarsgård in true-life Scandi noir
This intense psychological drama has a squid in the sky problem. Specifically it’s that, by its halfway point, Ran Huang’s rarefied Scandinavian crime feature has
Loop Track review – no escape for tormented hiker on horror trek to creature-feature hell
“I just wanted some quiet. But it’s so quiet out here. And all I can hear is my brain.” New Zealand hiker Ian (Thomas Sainsbury)
The Mother of All Lies review – pursuing the truth of Morocco’s brutal dictatorship years
Between those who refuse to remember and those who struggle to forget, a tumultuous clash of minds occupies the centre of Asmae El Moudir’s inventive
Despicable Me 4 review – Gru goes into witness protection to keep Minion magic alive
Here’s something new in the saga of everysupervillain ordinariness featuring Gru the goofy animated megabaddie (voiced by Steve Carell), with his comedy bald head, pointy
Steve McQueen’s Blitz to open the London film festival
Blitz, a new drama from Steve McQueen set in London during the second world war, is to open the capital’s film festival in October. The
French directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon detained over sex assault allegations
French authorities detained leading film directors Benoît Jacquot and Jacques Doillon on Monday for questioning over accusations of sexual abuse, sources close to the case
Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the Bard’s work updated on screen
What is the Shakespeare canon if not the ideal treasure trove of IP? Truancy laws mandate that students develop at the very least a passing