Film

‘Celebrity Traitors’ season two: Complex and compelling

Reality TV series The Traitors has returned with its celebrity version and has topped viewing charts for a second time. People are hooked on the show where logical reasoning and random chance are simultaneously at play, in a game full of drama, tension, and cliffhangers.
Culture Alice Rubli -

How cinema has taught us to see Autumn

Autumn is clearly a time for comfort and reflection, a fact the film industry has learnt very well and pumps into new releases.
Culture Amalia Dasgupta -

A jarring Mann: ‘Fatherland’ (2026) in review

'Fatherland', which recounts celebrated Modernist author Thomas Mann’s return to a Germany in wreck and rubble, deals with great personal malaise against a backdrop of great political unease.
Culture Freddie Lewis-Hedley -

NAZA: The most important film of the year

The filmmakers of NAZA clearly know that beyond physical distance, emotional distance is what allows the violence in Gaza to continue, and shows us just how easy it is to ignore what is going on right under our noses.
Culture Willow Jopp -
Latest

Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time review – ‘the show regenerates, and not a moment too soon’

Peter Capaldi's final turn as the Doctor is over, but was that Christmas special the swansong he deserved?

Transforming light into flesh

Netflix's new series of The Crown entrances with nuanced links between love and photography

Why ‘The Polar Express’ is a creepy Christmas classic

Despite its peculiarities 'The Polar Express' might be the most magical Christmas film of all

Imagining Idris Elba

How the film industry is failing black actors

Disney buys Fox’s entertainment assets for $52.4 billion

How this deal might change your viewing habits forever

TV gets real as Easy returns for a second season

Anna Myrmus examines how creator Joe Swanberg takes this Netflix show to even more unexpected places in season two

Star Wars: The Last Jedi review – ‘unpredictable plot twists and deeper characters’

Hannah Patient finds the new 'Star Wars' adventure far more satisfying than the previous instalment in the franchise

Autism as the ‘North Star’: ‘The A Word’ season 2 review

Catherine Cibulskis discusses the exploration of interpersonal relationships in the latest instalment of the BBC drama

The Christie Mystery

Raffaella Sero considers why Agatha Christie's characters still enthral us in the present day

Spike Lee Doesn’t Have It

Imogen Edwards-Lawrence finds fault with the Netflix reimagining of Spike Lee's classic film

Blockbuster bust-up?

This might be the year when mainstream movies shake up awards season

The Death of Stalin review – ‘it straddles that oh-so-narrow line between repellent and comic’

Christopher Goring enjoys the satire of Iannucci’s warped world behind the Iron Curtain

Adolescent queer love in ‘Call Me By Your Name’

Angelica De Vido finds the rich exoticism of Italy a perfect compliment to this tale of summer homoeroticism

A gendered rewatching of The Silence of the Lambs

25 years on, Clarice Sterling's defiance of the patriarchy is as relevant as ever

Passion over party in Pasternak’s Russia

Maria Minchenko marks the Russian Revolution centenary by casting her mind back to one of cinema's classics

Hollywood’s glamourising of Beauty and the Beast buries its troubling implications

21st century reimaginings of classic fairytales do not address the dark politics that underpin them. Susannah Goldsbrough explores.

No soggy bottoms, as Channel Four puts the icing on the cake

The move may have halved its viewing figures, but hasn't diminished any of its charm

“There is a selfish core to Mark that is the sort of thing that a sitcom character needs”

Comedian and Peep Show star David Mitchell talks to El Blackwood about the similarities between him and Mark Corrigan.

In search of originality? Retreat into cinema’s monochrome past

It is a truth universally acknowledged that commercial filmmaking has recently entered a new phase of life. Countless articles and blogs bemoan the lack...

More Slush than Snow – The Snowman fails to impress

Jonnie Barrow is severely disappointed by the new Scandi thriller
1...202122...26Page 21 of 26

Follow us