Padraic McKinley’s action-drama set during the Great Depression reveals the excellent Ethan Hawke in a whole new light. The Weight comes as something of a surprise since one would not expect its ...

There’s nobody quite like Nicolas Winding Refn. He’s one of the few directors whose distinctive style immediately sets him apart – where he delivers stories imbued with stifling atmosphere, long and ...

With its UK release following close on from that of North Sea, Nature Untamed, it is only natural to compare these two works yet in some key respects they are very different. Both are documentaries ...

I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

It’s reassuring that there are still spaces like Alaska left in the world, untouched by retail parks and data factories. For much of the running time of Heart of the Beast, the snowy peaks and virgin ...

It may be slightly less than perfect but Queen at Sea made in Britain by the American director Lance Hammer is bound to be one of the most memorable films of the year and the three central ...

If the prospect of AI gaining increasing control of our lives is not scary enough, along comes a film that illustrates just how frightening it can be in the wrong hands. Information is power and, if ...

The British filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel is well established having made a number of feature films and even more shorts, but it is only now with The Cycle of Love that I have come across his work.

It helps if you are a fan. Don’t Look Back in Anger, “created and written by Steven Knight,” presumes we know who Liam and Noel Gallagher are, their family background, their rise to megastardom thirty ...

Had The Last Bath obtained a release in the UK some three years ago, it would not have been all that surprising despite the fact that this Portuguese film has no international names attached that ...

The title of this belated sequel hardly inspires much confidence. Practical Magic 2 is actually adapted from Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic, the 2021 follow-up to the author’s Practical Magic of ...

The title of this extraordinary film might suggest that it is an adult movie in the sense that it is a highly sexual work that is essentially pornographic. However, the phrase ‘adult movie’ can also ...