Rating: 2.5★
The words "Directed by Orson Welles" appear on screen, and something shifts in you. You sit up a little straighter. You prepare yourself. This is the man who made The Third Man producer Carol Reed look over his shoulder, the man who redefined what a film could even
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Thom Lunshof's First Zone, a Dutch post-apocalyptic drama premiering In Competition at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Beautifully shot and scored with a strong lead, but a world left frustratingly unexplained.
Edinburgh International Film Festival
I came to The Mad World of Harvey Kurtzman knowing almost nothing about the man, and not a great deal more about the magazine that made him. MAD is one of those American institutions that only ever reached these shores second-hand, through references in other things, the gap-toothed
Rating: 3.5★
It remains a genuine puzzle to me why Brother Bear has become one of the more forgotten corners of the Disney vault. Ask most people to rattle off their favourite films from the studio's catalogue and they'll jump straight from the Renaissance peak of the mid-
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment in The Secret of NIMH where you catch yourself leaning forward, genuinely unsettled, and then you remember this is supposed to be a Saturday afternoon film for kids. That tension, that slight discomfort at how dark and serious everything feels, is really the whole story
Rating: 3.5★
I've heard the names Asterix and Obelix my entire life. They are an unavoidable pillar of European pop culture, even if their footprint has shrunk a bit here in the UK in recent years. Endless merchandise, cultural osmosis, playground references. Yet, somehow, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo'
Rating: 3.5★
The image that stays with me from Johnny Mad Dog is the dressing-up. Boys of ten to fifteen years old going into battle wearing wedding dresses, wigs, angel wings, whatever they have managed to loot along the way, each one answering to some fearsome nom de guerre. It is
Rating: 1.5★
When you sit down to watch what is supposedly a horror film shot in the Northern Mariana Islands, you go in ready to make allowances. It's an unusual origin for a genre picture, and part of you wants to root for it on that basis alone. I did.
Rating: 2.5★
There's a version of The Red Turtle that I think I could love. The version that exists purely as a sequence of images, a moving watercolour book you'd leave open on a coffee table and let wash over you. Michael Dudok de Wit has made something
Rating: 3.5★
Press play on Tomm Moore's 2009 animated feature and within seconds you're struck dumb by how gorgeous it all is. The vibrant colours, the geometric, illuminated-manuscript art style, the sheer fluidity of the movement across the screen. It's a genuine visual feast, and
Rating: 3.5★
The first thing that'll either hook you or drive you absolutely mad is the camera work. Fernando Meirelles shoots this with a deliberately restless, almost chaotic energy, and I know plenty of critics have knocked the skewed angles and hyper-stylised framing, dismissing them as distracting or overly
Rating: 3.0★
Whenever the names Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski come up in the same breath, the phrase "toxic relationship" practically hangs in the air like smoke. Their final collaboration together is a glaring reminder of why. I often find myself wondering what on earth kept drawing them back to
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