Rating: 3.0★
Time travel has been a fixture of science fiction storytelling since at least H.G. Wells, and by the early 2000s Hollywood had well and truly made it its own, serving up glossy, effects-heavy productions that prioritised spectacle over rigour. Into that landscape arrived Primer in 2004, a film
Rating: 3.0★
Jean-Marie Straub is not a filmmaker who makes concessions to comfort, either his own or the audience's. Working for decades alongside his wife and creative partner Danièle Huillet, the Franco-German director built a body of work defined by rigorous formalism, political seriousness, and an almost confrontational
Rating: 3.0★
Bhutan does not have a long history as a film-producing nation. For much of the twentieth century it was closed to outside visitors entirely, and even after cautiously opening its borders in the 1970s it remained one of the least-filmed countries on the planet. That cultural insularity, combined
Rating: 3.0★
Few national cinemas have as particular a backstory as Suriname's, and One People sits at the very centre of it. The film arrived in 1976, the year after Suriname formally gained independence from the Netherlands, and that timing is no accident. The country's departure from the
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of American regional cinema that flourished in the mid-1970s, built on pickup trucks, backroads, lawmen with bad tempers, and a deeply ingrained suspicion of authority in any form. Moonrunners sits comfortably, perhaps even proudly, within that tradition. Released in 1975 through United Artists, the
Rating: 3.0★
Trojan Records was never just a record label. Founded in 1968 and named after the Duke Reid sound system truck that had rattled through the streets of Kingston, it became the primary channel through which ska, rocksteady and reggae flowed from Jamaica into the living rooms, youth clubs and dance
Rating: 3.0★
Short-form documentary has long occupied an uneasy space in cinema, respected in festival circles and often overlooked everywhere else. The thirteen-minute runtime is its own kind of discipline: there is no room for padding, no space to bury a weak idea under running time. When it works, the
Rating: 3.0★
Horror remakes are a risky business at the best of times, and the early 2000s were full of Hollywood studios eyeing up Japanese genre cinema with the kind of enthusiasm that did not always translate well to screen. Ringu, Hideo Nakata's 1998 adaptation of Koji Suzuki's
Rating: 3.0★
Few films can claim to have genuinely rewired an entire genre, but Hideo Nakata's Ring from 1998 comes about as close as anything released in the last three decades. Based on Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel of the same name, the film follows a journalist who begins
Rating: 3.0★
There are films that arrive with a straightforward pitch and deliver more or less what they promise, and then there are films like Mad God. Phil Tippett's feature debut as director is something else entirely: a stop-motion nightmare three decades in the making, resurrected from a shelved
Rating: 3.0★
Noah Kahan arrived somewhere between folk and indie-pop at precisely the right moment. The Vermont singer-songwriter had been quietly building a following for several years before "Stick Season" turned into something neither he nor anyone at his label had entirely predicted: a genuine cultural phenomenon, the
Rating: 3.0★
There are certain corners of the Disney back catalogue that feel less like films and more like shared memories, and The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh sits comfortably near the top of that list. The bear of very little brain first appeared in A.A. Milne's 1926
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