Northern Horror Fest
Tobee Collins made Verena with no filmmaking experience at all. None. He taught himself to write, to shoot, to light, to edit and to score, and then went and did every one of those jobs himself: writer, director, producer, cinematographer, editor and composer. It was his first film, and it
Rating: 3.0★
There are films that arrive with a straightforward pitch and deliver more or less what they promise, and then there are films like Mad God. Phil Tippett's feature debut as director is something else entirely: a stop-motion nightmare three decades in the making, resurrected from a shelved
Rating: 3.5★
British cinema has always had a complicated relationship with its own class system, from the kitchen-sink dramas of the 1960s through to the heritage pictures that followed, and Emerald Fennell's Saltburn arrives very much in that tradition, even as it does its best to tear the wallpaper
Rating: 3.5★
Jafar Panahi has spent much of the last fifteen years making films under conditions that would stop most directors outright. Arrested in 2010, banned from filmmaking and from leaving Iran, he has continued to work anyway, producing features on the quiet and smuggling them out to festival circuits while the
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In 2017 Universal tried to do it all again, only bigger, darker and joined up. The Mummy was meant to be the cornerstone of a whole shared "Dark Universe" of classic monsters, with Tom Cruise drafted in to carry it and Russell Crowe waiting in the wings as
Rating: 3.0★
Noah Kahan arrived somewhere between folk and indie-pop at precisely the right moment. The Vermont singer-songwriter had been quietly building a following for several years before "Stick Season" turned into something neither he nor anyone at his label had entirely predicted: a genuine cultural phenomenon, the
Rating: 2.5★
There are films that arrive out of nowhere, make an improbable fortune at the box office, and then spend the following decades generating a rather uncomfortable conversation about what, exactly, we were all laughing at. The Gods Must Be Crazy is one of those films. Released in South Africa in
Rating: 2.5★
Cape Verde in the mid-1960s was a place caught between worlds. Still a Portuguese colonial territory (independence would not come until 1975), the archipelago was watching the old certainties crack under pressure from economic and social forces that no amount of tradition could hold back. The volcanic island of
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By 1999 the old Universal monster pictures felt like relics, the stuff of late-night television and Halloween reruns. Then Stephen Sommers had the good sense to stop treating them as horror and start treating them as Saturday-morning adventure. His version of The Mummy dusts off the 1932 Boris
Rating: 3.0★
There are certain corners of the Disney back catalogue that feel less like films and more like shared memories, and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh sits comfortably near the top of that list. The bear of very little brain first appeared in A.A. Milne's 1926
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular kind of anger that does not shout so much as accumulate, building pressure through image and rhythm until the audience has no choice but to feel its full weight. That is the mode Med Hondo chose for Soleil O, his feature debut, released in 1970 and
Rating: 4.0★
July 1995. The town of Srebrenica, in eastern Bosnia, became the site of the worst mass atrocity on European soil since the Second World War. Over the course of a few days, more than eight thousand Bosniak Muslim men and boys were systematically murdered by Bosnian Serb forces under the
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