Rating: 3.0★
Every now and then a documentary arrives that makes you wonder how nobody thought to make it sooner. The Golden Spurtle (2025) trains its camera on Carrbridge, a small Highland village in the Cairngorms, which has hosted the World Porridge Making Championship since 1994. The competition is as straightforward and
Rating: 3.5★
By the early 1980s, the partnership of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo and Yuen Biao had already become something of a Hong Kong institution. The three men had trained together at the Peking Opera School as children, and that shared history gave their on-screen collaborations a physical shorthand
Rating: 2.5★
By the late 1980s, the American action film had carved out a fairly reliable template: a physically gifted lead, an exotic location, and enough punching to fill ninety-odd minutes. Bloodsport, released in 1988, slots neatly into that tradition, though it adds a specific wrinkle by setting its story in
Rating: 1.5★
There is a particular strand of British genre filmmaking that tries to plant one foot in the kitchen-sink tradition and the other in pure pulp spectacle, and Attack the Block is one of the more talked-about attempts at that balancing act. Released in 2011 and set almost entirely
Rating: 3.5★
Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 novel Im Westen nichts Neues is one of those books that has never really been out of print, and for good reason. Written from the ground level of the German trenches, it was one of the first major works to push back against the
Rating: 2.0★
Arab cinema covers an enormous range of tones and registers, from the unflinching social realism of Capernaum (2018) to lighter, crowd-pleasing fare aimed squarely at regional multiplex audiences. Honeymoonish (2024) plants itself firmly in the latter camp: a Kuwait-Lebanon co-production that pitches itself as a breezy opposites-
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Rush Hour 2 (2001) at twenty-five: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Rating: 1.0★
Few films from the late 1970s American exploitation circuit carry quite the same poisonous reputation as I Spit on Your Grave. Released in 1978 under the original title Day of the Woman, a name its director would later insist better reflected his intentions, the film arrived at a moment when
Rating: 2.0★
The Pokémon franchise has been producing theatrical films since 1998, and at this point the formula is about as well-worn as an old pair of trainers. What began with the genuinely affecting Pokémon: The First Movie has expanded into a long-running series of largely standalone adventures, each built
Rating: 3.5★
By the mid-1980s, Hong Kong cinema was operating at a kind of creative fever pitch that the rest of the world was only just beginning to notice. John Woo had redefined the action thriller with A Better Tomorrow in 1986, and the Shaw Brothers tradition of wuxia spectacle, stretching
Rating: 2.0★
The question of what happens to cultural heritage stolen under colonialism is one that museums across Europe have been forced to sit with, uncomfortably, for decades. Nowhere is that discomfort more pointed than in the case of the royal treasures of Dahomey, a powerful West African kingdom (roughly corresponding to
Rating: 2.5★
Thirteen years is a long time to wait for a sequel. When Avatar (2009) landed, it rewrote the rulebook on blockbuster spectacle, becoming the highest-grossing film in cinema history and turning stereoscopic 3D into something audiences actually sought out rather than tolerated. James Cameron had always promised more stories
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