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Hand of Death at Fifty: A Look Back
Hand of Death (1976) at fifty: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Ross McLaren
Rating: 3.5★
SKATER UKTIS (2025)
Short documentary filmmaking occupies a peculiar corner of cinema. Too brief to demand the commitment of a feature, too considered to be dismissed as mere footage, the short doc lives or dies by the clarity of its central idea. At its best, the format can distill something essential about a
Raindance Film Festival
Fabric (2026)
There is a particular kind of documentary that sets out to change how you see a group of people, and Fabric belongs to it. Directed by Anabelle Marshall, this short documentary goes inside Espero Atelier, a Paris social enterprise that trains refugees in the exacting craft of haute couture tailoring
Rating: 3.5★
Toy Story 5 (2026)
There are few animated franchises that carry as much cultural weight as Toy Story. When Pixar released the original film in 1995, it did not merely launch a series, it reshaped the entire landscape of feature animation. The three films that followed (and the various shorts, such as Toy Story
Rating: 4.0★
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
Iran in the mid-1970s was a pressure cooker, and for many young men caught up in the revolutionary fervour of the time, political violence felt less like a choice and more like an inevitability. Mohsen Makhmalbaf was one of those young men. In 1974, aged seventeen, he attacked a
Northern Horror Fest
The Camper (2026)
Brianna Lee is one of those filmmakers who simply does the lot. On her debut feature The Troll she wrote, directed, produced, edited and took the lead role, and it earned her a nomination for Best Performance in a Debut Feature when it world premiered at the 34th Raindance Film
Northern Horror Fest
The Girl We Let In (2026)
Ryan Callaway has spent well over a decade quietly building one of the more prolific independent horror operations in America. Through his own company, Shady Dawn Pictures, he writes, directs and produces films that get made outside the studio system entirely and have found their way into more than 150
Rating: 3.0★
Jonah (2013)
Short films rarely get the sustained attention they deserve, and Kibwe Tavares's Jonah (2013) is a good case in point. Running at just seventeen minutes, it is the kind of work that gets a festival circuit run, picks up a few well-deserved column inches, and then quietly
Rating: 2.0★
Mordraud (2013)
San Marino is not a country you would typically associate with a film industry. The landlocked microstate, entirely surrounded by Italy and home to fewer than 35,000 people, has produced only a handful of films across its entire history. That alone makes Mordraud (2013) something of a curiosity worth
Rating: 3.5★
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Video game adaptations have, for the better part of three decades, carried a reputation somewhere between "ambitious misfire" and "straight-to-bargain-bin disaster." From the chaotic live-action pantomime of the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film to the reliably forgettable string of Uwe Boll productions,
Rating: 4.5★
The Muppet Movie (1979)
There are films that arrive fully formed, seemingly from nowhere, and lodge themselves permanently in the cultural memory. The Muppet Movie, released in the summer of 1979, is one of them. Kermit the Frog had been a television fixture since Jim Henson first began tinkering with puppets in the mid-
Rating: 3.5★
I'm Still Here (2024)
Brazil's military dictatorship, which ran from 1964 to 1985, is one of the twentieth century's more persistently under-examined periods of state repression in mainstream Western cinema. Tens of thousands of citizens were detained, tortured, or forced into exile during those two decades, yet the regime