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A very strong performance from Amanda Seyfried anchors this biopic of the most notorious period of Linda Boreman’s life, that of her troubled marriage ... Read more »

In a flashback sequence that opens the Marvel brand’s latest superhero sequel, we discover how Thor’s grandfather, Bor, previously conquered the ... Read more »

Released on the 50th year since JFK’s assassination, this ensemble drama takes place over the days surrounding the murder, concerning itself with the e... Read more »

In one Spanish city, three couples of varying ages undergo differing experiences of modern love: elderly former lovers meet again after years apart, a middle... Read more »

A financial flop lost in the Star Wars summer of 1977, William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, long plagued by legal problems regarding distribution in its comple... Read more »

Wings, one of the final big Hollywood productions of the silent era, is most famous for being the Best Picture winner at the inaugural Academy Awards, or rat... Read more »

William Friedkin’s last two directorial efforts (Bug and Killer Joe) were Tracy Letts adaptations, and it’s a crying shame he didn't helm the fil... Read more »

A musical nod to diminishing returns for sequels opens Muppets Most Wanted, and while this is an overall inferior product compared to its immediate forerunne... Read more »

Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »

Life May Be is a five part cinematic correspondence between Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins and Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, made over the last year, du... Read more »

Phil Lord and Chris Miller have made a name for themselves by transforming dubious prospects for film adaptations (21 and 22 Jump Street; Cloudy with a ... Read more »

“Yes, breaking shit was very interesting to me; I really wanted to break some shit.” Aubrey Plaza has just been asked whether the physical aspect... Read more »

In 1968, Japanese director Seijun Suzuki saw his long-standing contract with the Nikkatsu studio terminated for repeatedly turning routine potboiler scripts ... Read more »

In one key scene of Exodus: Gods and Kings, Ramses (Joel Edgerton) addresses exiled foster brother Moses’ (Christian Bale) suggestion to free the Hebre... Read more »

Still Alice deviates from most dramas concerned with Alzheimer’s in adopting the point of view of the sufferer, rather than devastated loved ones. Juli... Read more »

Following Not Quite Hollywood, his 2008 documentary about the Australian exploitation cinema of the 1970s and 80s, writer-director Mark Hartley returns to pr... Read more »

Viewed through a contemporary prism, one might pithily describe 1967's Two for the Road as being like the entire Before trilogy compacted into one featu... Read more »

In the vein of the genre switch-up between Alien and Aliens, Monsters sequel Dark Continent is an action-orientated take on the setup of the more modest orig... Read more »

Closer in spirit to his Mysterious Skin than The Doom Generation, White Bird in a Blizzard sees Gregg Araki adapting a Laura Kasischke novel and applying his... Read more »

Bringing “slammin’ beats from the ass-end of hell,”, Sion Sono’s manga adaptation Tokyo Tribe is a hysterical hybrid of The Warriors,... Read more »

A new animated take on a classic manga property, Harlock Space Pirate sees an immortal spaceship captain roam a colonised galaxy, against the backdrop of a s... Read more »

With The Iron Giant and The Incredibles, director Brad Bird demonstrated a keen interest in retrofuturism, a creative trend in which futuristic technology is... Read more »

Scottish Mussel follows Martin Compston as a Glaswegian schemer moonlighting as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams, with the help of his bu... Read more »

With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »

To offer a reductive description of Pedro Costa’s Horse Money for those unfamiliar with it or him as a filmmaker, imagine the following: Labyrinth, exc... Read more »

Punk v Nazi thriller from the mind that brought you Blue Ruin Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier’s follow-up to Blue Ruin, trades the latter’s revenge ... Read more »

X-Men: Apocalypse is plagued with problems but the new blood shine, even if some of the old guard (Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence) look pretty bore... Read more »

With films like I Wish and Nobody Knows, Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda has proven himself the modern master of quiet family dramas. His latest, Our Littl... Read more »

Based on manga Umimachi Diary, Our Little Sister sees three upwardly mobile adult sisters attend the funeral of the father who left their family ye... Read more »

Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) makes a bid for the American mainstream with Colossal, a high-concept indie that’s part ... Read more »