There’s a dizzying amount to see and hear in German film-maker Tilman Singer’s brash style-over-substance horror Cuckoo, a film that pokes and prods and screeches
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Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack
In Australia by the late 1960s, the Beach Boys and Gidget were out, Durban poison, blotting paper acid and prog rock were in and surfing
Dark summer: why film noirs often work better in the sunshine
It’s hot out there, and it’s only getting hotter. This past month, Death Valley reported the highest average temperatures in the documented history of Earth,
David Lynch says he is too ill to direct films in person
Film-maker David Lynch has said he is now too ill to direct films in person and could only work on projects remotely. In an interview
Together 99 review – quarter-century renuion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy
More than 20 years ago, Lukas Moodysson directed the Swedish comedy Together: set in 1975, it was about a bunch of hippies living in a
The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama
J Lee Thompson is a British director who could maybe do with a bit more auteur respect: here is a double-bill rerelease of two of
Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?
In the opening moments of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, a cute little computer-generated creature bearing a passing resemblance to Baby Yoda widens his cute little
British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films on show at Oscars museum
“You only live twice, or so it seems” – at least, that is, if you are the work of the late illustrator John McLusky, creator
Mark Kermode on… director Hayao Miyazaki, who speaks to the child in all of us
Is Japanese film-maker Hayao Miyazaki “the greatest family entertainer of our time”? That was the conclusion I reached about the writer-director behind such animated wonders
Trap review – M Night Shyamalan’s concert thriller is a mess
The reintroduction of M Night Shyamalan offered the kind of specifically alluring comeback narrative that a certain generation was compelled to blindly support. Those of