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Director Andrew Ahn’s endearing and significantly queerer update of Ang Lee’s rom com hit lets its LGBTQ+ characters behave badly, and is all the better for it.
While male auteurs Edward Yang and Hou Hsiao-hsien were feted internationally, a closer look at Taiwan’s 1980s new wave reveals the interconnectedness and shared desires of many less celebrated ...
The French director’s mid-length homage to his own filmmaking presents a funny and provocative collage of cinema history, politics, and artistic introspection.
In 1951, the Swedish actress and soon-to-be groundbreaking director – who was born 100 years ago this May – wrote about the craft of film acting, and especially its relationship to stage acting.
The dangerous allure of a sex motel on Brazil’s coast is palpable in Karim Aïnouz’s enthralling melodrama.
A tender portrayal of the sexual awakening of a young chorister, Little Trouble Girls will be in cinemas in the UK and Ireland from 29 August.
The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...
Musician Emiliana Torrini and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard tell us about their out-of-the-ordinary musical odyssey into a hidden life brimming with travel, passion and adventure.
On his 82nd birthday, the first of a new series celebrating actors at the peak of their powers looks at Michael Palin’s turn as pig-stealing chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers in A Private Function.
Twenty years on from its theatrical release, Bullet Boy possesses a contemporary relevance far beyond its tale of Black youths and gun crime, says Dr Clive Nwonka.
Florence Pugh leads a messy squad of ‘superhero’ misfits as Black Widow’s sister Yelena Belova in a comic book movie that prioritises its characters over spectacle.
Fifty years after glamrock band Slade surprised everyone with the grittiness of their big-screen fable about the music industry, we spoke to singer Noddy Holder, actor Tom Conti and director Richard ...