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A lumberjack seeks revenge for the slaughter of his wife in Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy, a lurid, psychosexual homage to 1980s horror that sees a wild-eyed N... Read more »

One of the more inventive voices to emerge from the Romanian new wave, Radu Jude has long been a director who challenges expectations. His contemporaries lik... Read more »

To say the films of Ken Loach are considered landmarks of British social realism would be putting it mildly. From Cathy Come Home (1966) to Riff-Raff (1991) ... Read more »

Gentle Confrontation's title track opens the record with a cauldron of trembling strings that wouldn’t be out of place on Building Something Beaut... Read more »

What is it about Brutalist architecture that makes it look so bleak yet awe-inspiring? Emerging in the 1950s, the imposing geometric shapes and rough concret... Read more »

With companies like Google and Meta harvesting our data for profit and AI-driven automation threatening job security, tech anxiety is at an all-time high. In... Read more »

'Where to begin? Where were we before?' asks Aya Sinclair – better known simply as aya – on I am the pipe I hit myself with, the opening track on... Read more »

The press release for The Passionate Ones describes the latest record by Marcus Brown's Nourished by Time as a sermon “howled from the underbelly of la... Read more »

WC Fields famously said “never work with animals or children,” but Matteo Garrone, the director behind Gomorrah, Reality and Tale of Tales disagr... Read more »

Richard Billingham shot to fame in 1996 with the photobook Ray's a Laugh. An unflinching portrait of his alcoholic father, Billingham’s photographs wer... Read more »

Adapted from Jerzy Kosiński’s 1965 novel, Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird comes at the viewer with its talons bared; an affront that ask... Read more »

A pastiche of sophisticated literary magazines like The New Yorker, The French Dispatch sees the American director Wes Anderson refine his distinctive style ... Read more »

“What does home mean to you?” That’s the question at the heart of Flee. Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen is speaking to his frien... Read more »

In English, YIAN translates as ‘swallow’. It’s a fitting metaphor for an album that majestically soars to blissful plateaus, but ... Read more »

Godflesh’s ninth studio album – their first since 2017's Post Self – sees the Birmingham pioneers of industrial noise (guitarist/vocal... Read more »

Berlin-based producer Ziúr creates deconstructed dance music that beats with a human heart. Her previous album Antifate took its inspiration from medi... Read more »

Elori Saxl’s debut, The Blue of Distance – named after Rebecca Solnit’s observation in A Field Guide to Getting Lost, that faraway mountain... Read more »

There’s an early scene in Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut that establishes her protagonist's desire for escape. Christine "Lady Bird" McPhearson... Read more »

While waiting for his wife in a busy restaurant, a middle-aged lawyer named Claudio (Grandinetti) is accosted by a nervous-looking stranger. He demands Claud... Read more »

Academy Award-winning director Laura Poitras has made a career out of documenting individuals who stand up to powerful forces. Her previous subjects include ... Read more »

Although Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO has been favourably compared to Au Hasard Balthazar, Robert Bresson's 1966 masterpiece in which he parallels the mistre... Read more »

Since forming in 2020, bar italia, have released a steady stream of music. Throughout that time the group have ruthlessly preserved their anonymity; rarely g... Read more »

Last year composer Kali Malone was forced to cancel her concert at the Church Saint-Cornély in France after far-right protesters deemed her performanc... Read more »

You might already be familiar with 潘PAN from her appearance on Grimes’ 2015 album Art Angels, where she performed as Aristophanes on Scream. However, h... Read more »

The title of claire rousay’s latest album might allude to post-coital bliss, but la petite mort was also used by philosopher Roland Barthes to describe... Read more »

“My grandfather once told me about the time he was ordered to shoot a partisan,” Hungarian director Dénes Nagy confides to us as we sit do... Read more »

Michelangelo Frammartino’s long-awaited follow-up to 2010’s Le Quattro Volte recreates a 1961 speleological expedition in Italy’s sout... Read more »

After a number of internationally acclaimed short films, Jacqueline Lentzou’s long-awaited feature-length debut has finally arrived. A heartfelt explor... Read more »

It’s hard to imagine a better title for Kate Shilonosova’s latest album than WOW. The Russian songwriter, best known as Kate NV, has always ... Read more »

Taking its inspiration from game theory – a branch of applied mathematics frequently associated with chess – Darren Cunningham's ninth release as... Read more »