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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.
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SKATER UKTIS (2025)
There's a moment in Skater Uktis where the sheer, uncomplicated joy on screen made me grin like an idiot. No irony, no cynicism, just a group of young Muslim women on skateboards, completely in their element. Seven minutes. That's all it takes. I'll be
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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 pressure tests for a film quite like renting out a cinema for twenty-nine hyperactive eight-year-olds and hoping for the best. That's exactly what I did to celebrate my son's birthday, and I can tell you now: Toy Story 5 passed
Rating: 4.0★
A Moment of Innocence (1996)
That final frame. I'm not going to describe it, I'm not going to hint at it, I'm just going to tell you that it stopped me cold. In a single, perfectly held image, A Moment of Innocence earns everything that came before it, including
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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
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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)
There's a photograph at the heart of Jonah, and everything falls apart because of it. One man, one camera, one enormous fish leaping in the background, and suddenly a quiet Tanzanian fishing village is never the same again. It sounds almost whimsical, and for a brief moment it
Rating: 2.0★
Mordraud (2013)
There's something genuinely fascinating about the idea of San Marinese cinema. San Marino, for those keeping track, is a tiny landlocked republic nestled inside Italy with a population smaller than a mid-sized English market town. Its cinematic output is, as you might expect, not exactly vast. So
Rating: 3.5★
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
Let's be honest: when those first official images of Sonic surfaced online, it was one of the most alarming things I'd seen in a cinema preview in years. Those teeth. Those unsettling human-ish eyes. The strange, elongated limbs. I remember thinking there was absolutely no
Rating: 4.5★
The Muppet Movie (1979)
Some films you watch for yourself. Some films you watch with your kids, and you end up rediscovering something you didn't even know you'd lost. Sitting down with the little ones to watch James Frawley's The Muppet Movie, I wasn't expecting to
Rating: 3.5★
I'm Still Here (2024)
There's a moment early in I'm Still Here where the warmth of a family home, the laughter, the cluttered kitchen, the sun coming through the windows, feels almost unbearably fragile. You know what's coming. The film knows you know. And Walter Salles lets that