Rating: 3.5★
The American high school comedy has been declared dead so many times that its survival at this point feels almost rebellious. From the anarchic spirit of Ferris Bueller's Day Off to the laddish chaos of Superbad, the genre has repeatedly found ways to reinvent its own formula while
Rating: 3.0★
Victor Hugo's 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (better known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) has had no shortage of screen adaptations, from the silent Lon Chaney version of 1923 through to the brooding 1939 Charles Laughton picture. By the time Disney came to the
Rating: 3.5★
The title alone tells you something about the world this film inhabits. "No Dogs or Italians Allowed" refers to the kind of signs that reportedly appeared outside lodgings and workplaces in early twentieth-century France, a blunt shorthand for the discrimination faced by the waves of Italian labourers
2010s
Before the smartphone era made documentation effortless and ubiquitous, entire subcultures lived, thrived, and faded away largely unrecorded. The Shakedown parties that ran in Los Angeles from the late 1990s into the 2000s were exactly that kind of scene: a series of club nights founded by and for Black lesbian
Rating: 4.0★
The First World War has occupied British cinema for over a century, from the silent era newsreels shot a few miles behind the actual front line to the mud-soaked poetry of films like Paths of Glory and Oh! What a Lovely War. It is a conflict that refuses to
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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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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