Behind Closed Drawbridges
Why are we so fascinated by stories of royalty?
Inheriting ‘The Big Score’
Examining the appeal of the classic heist film
The Entangled Affair between Britain and the Catholic Church
Modern media has reinvented Catholicism as access to an intoxicating blend of nostalgia and taboo
The End of an Era: Endgame
Arguably the biggest film franchise in the world draws to a conclusion that's been over a decade in the making
The Duality of Movement in the New Taiwanese Cinema Movement
The entry of Hong Kong cinema to the
Taiwanese market in the 1980s brought with it a move to protect homegrown
directors and maintain a national...
On the Basis of Sex: battling through a man’s world
Ruth Bader Ginsberg biopic shows how Felicity Jones and feminism can bring a legal drama to life
Student film: ‘notoriously difficult to penetrate’
Oxford’s student filmmakers give their takes on writing workshops, directorial debuts, and getting inside one of the arts’ most difficult industries.
Placing society’s margins under the microscope
The psychological and physical decay resulting from drug addiction is tactfully explored in Darren Aronofsky’s masterpiece.
Beautiful Boy review: powerful, painful, poignant
Beautiful Boy is unlikely to have an unintentional glamorising effect. We witness the oblivion of being high before the inevitable crash down to a deeper and darker place.
Fast Film: In a Lonely Place unites noir tradition with painfully real romance
Humphrey Bogart is a man addled by loneliness in this cinematic masterclass of subtlety and allegory.
Film First: a box of tissues are needed for the first film to make me cry
Director Isao Takahata tugs at the heartstrings until you're bleary-eyed
Why The Nightmare Before Christmas is the most underrated Christmas film
The Nightmare Before Christmas says that it is fine to find a holiday dull, or to question the purpose of repeating it every year.
Festive flicks: the best films to watch at Christmas
Get into the Christmas spirit with a .. Harry Potter marathon
Frantz: a wrenching tale of remembrance
The French-German film Frantz, however, has gone unnoticed by many English-speaking viewers, despite being one of the most powerful films released to explore the after-effects of World War I.
