Rating: 2.0★
H.P. Lovecraft spent much of his life being ignored, misunderstood, or quietly horrified by the modern world, which makes it fitting that his work has spent the decades since his death being adapted, reinterpreted, and gleefully mangled by filmmakers who clearly adore the source material even when they'
Rating: 3.5★
The figure of Yuki-onna, the snow woman of Japanese folklore, has haunted the country's storytelling tradition for centuries. She appears in woodblock prints, Noh theatre, and countless regional variants of the same essential myth: a female spirit of the winter mountains, beautiful, lethal, and possessed of a
Rating: 3.5★
Andrea Arnold arrived at Fish Tank with one Cannes Palme d'Or short film already to her name (2003's Wasp) and a BAFTA-winning debut feature in Red Road (2006), a picture that marked her out as one of the sharpest observers of contemporary British social life
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To kick this monthly round-up off, here are some of the more popular films you can stream on Amazon Prime Video in the UK right now, the sort worth a look if you are scrolling for something to watch. From next month I will be flagging the fresh arrivals
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Here is the monthly round of comings and goings on Netflix UK for June 2026. There are 19 titles arriving and 48 on their way out, so this is your nudge to catch the leavers before they disappear and to line up a few of the new ones. Joining Netflix
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Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in June 2026. I have stuck to the releases most people will actually have on their radar, the bigger titles and the ones building a real head of steam, rather than listing every last thing
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Here is the monthly round of comings and goings on Netflix UK for May 2026. There are 29 titles arriving and 73 on their way out, so this is your nudge to catch the leavers before they disappear and to line up a few of the new ones. Joining Netflix
1950s
Don Siegel’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) arrived at a strange crossroads in American cinema: too modest to be a prestige picture, too unsettling to be a forgettable B-movie. Adapted from Jack Finney’s serialised novel The Body Snatchers and shot at Allied Artists on a budget
1970s
René Laloux’s Fantastic Planet (1973) is one of those films that doesn’t really fit anywhere: too cerebral for kids, too odd for animation festivals, too steeped in European political theory for the Saturday-morning slot, and too visually fearless to ignore. A 72-minute French–Czech co-production
1960s
Viy (1967) is a strange and almost solitary object in Soviet cinema: a horror film, an actual horror film with monsters and demons and supernatural set-pieces, in a national cinema that mostly didn’t make horror at all. Officially endorsed by Mosfilm and based on a Nikolai Gogol folktale,
1950s
Disney’s Alice in Wonderland (1951) is the studio’s middle-period work par excellence: technically polished, commercially tested, narratively cautious, and just slightly off. Made between two of Disney’s commercial successes (Cinderella in 1950, which had rescued the studio from one of its periodic financial near-misses, and
Genre Animation
★★★ — Mononoke the Movie: Chapter II - The Ashes of Rage (2025)
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