Here is a marvellously tender story of loneliness and love which starts with a bigger bang than most thrillers. Etero, played by Eka Chavleishvili, is
Category: Films
The Animal Kingdom review – Romain Duris leads post-Covid fantasy of virus-triggered mutants
Thomas Cailley’s sci-fi fantasy has too much sensitivity and good taste to be the proper horror-thriller or creature feature that it almost resembles. It’s a
‘Surrounded by the beauty of a thousand candles’: why Twilight is going live, loud and on tour
The first Twilight film was released 16 years ago and, for many of us, the franchise has long since lost any sense of currency. Without
Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano review – reclaiming normality in post-explosion Beirut
‘How much bad news can you get in one day?” That’s the production manager of a Lebanese movie called Costa Brava, which is due to
Lassie: A New Adventure review – wholesome quaint family fun with no surprises
In some ways, the Lassie films are like the canine answer to the James Bond series. Both have literary antecedents, both have been big screen
What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks
I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic film The Travelling Players and noting that it was 222 minutes long and thinking
Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film
For better and for worse, John Green’s young adult worlds tend toward the dramatic and expansive – big swings, big emotions, big mysteries and dreams.
Cold review – theatrically evocative folk-tale treatment of the pain of miscarriage
Film-makers Claire Coache and Lisle Turner are a couple who survived the horrific experience of losing two babies during pregnancy: one to a medical termination
Riddle of Fire review – quest for a blueberry pie aims to be ye olde work of whimsy
If you’ve ever tried to make a home movie with young children, you quickly come to appreciate how hard it is to get the little
Norwegian Dream review – queer romance speaks for all the oppressed underclasses
Director Leiv Igor Devold makes an unexpected link-up between Norway, the country where he grew up, and Poland, where he attended film school, in this