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Berlinale
Henry Fonda for President
★★★★★

No, the American actor Henry Fonda never ventured from the red carpet to the corridors...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Berlinale
Spaceman: Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano and Johan Renck at the Berlinale 2024 press conference

Who knew that Celine Dion helped Adam Sandler get into character? At the Berlinale press...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Cinema & Tv
“My main concern is the story I’m telling – not the place where it takes place”: Abderrahmane Sissako on Black Tea at Berlinale 2024

The gentle rhythms of Black Tea might make the film too laid-back for some audiences,...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February
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Berlinale
The Secret Drawer
★★★★★

When a documentary filmmaker turns their camera on themself or their own family, the results...

Oliver Johnston 28^th February

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Cannes
Motel Destino
★★★★★

Motels have a cinematic reputation as providing a bolthole to drifters, ne’er do wells and...

Mark Worgan 24^th May
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Cannes
Misericordia
★★★★★

Latin for “mercy”, the term “misericordia” denotes a devotional song during service, asking for God’s...

Selina Sondermann 24^th May
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Cannes
All We Imagine as Light
★★★★★

Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light may be one of the final films to...

Mark Worgan 24^th May
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Cinema & Tv
“Cate Blanchett told me Tár was not only the story of a conductor. And our film was not only about a conductor”: Benjamin Lavernhe on The Marching Band at Cannes Film Festival 2024

Tár star Cate Blanchett gave French actor Benjamin Lavernhe an important tip before taking his...

Mark Worgan 22^nd May

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Venice
“The coma is a pretext to tell the immobility of people stuck in their routine”: Valerio Mastandrea interview on Feeling Better

Valerio Mastandrea’s latest film, Feeling Better, takes audiences on a poignant and imaginative exploration of...

Filippo L'Astorina, the Editor 17^th September
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Venice
“For me, life is just more beautiful with humour”: Bernhard Wenger on Peacock at Venice Film Festival 2024

The International Critics Week is a parallel section of the Venice Film Festival dedicated to...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September
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Venice
“I like questions more when it comes to creating a character, rather than finding the answers”: Albrecht Schuch on Peacock at Venice Film Festival 2024

As with any big festival, smaller parallel sections, tucked away from the glitzy main competition,...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September
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Venice
Peacock
★★★★★

At the International Critics Week, which runs parallel to the Venice film festival, the directorial...

Selina Sondermann 17^th September

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“Both Christopher and Dana didn’t want barriers or borders, they wanted people to achieve their dreams”: Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte on Super/Man – The Christopher Reeve Story at London Film Festival 2024

A hero in more ways than one, the story of Christopher Reeve – from donning...

Mae Trumata 29^th October
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“We’ve been calling it a cyber feminist goose chase”: Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross on Seeking Mavis Beacon at London Film Festival 2024

With her radiant smile and business-casual attire, Mavis Beacon evokes a sense of nostalgia for...

Christina Yang 28^th October
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The Summer Book: On the red carpet with Charlie McDowell, Emily Matthews and Robert Jones at London Film Festival 2024

A story of father, daughter and grandmother, The Summer Book stars Glenn Close, Anders Danielsen...

Mae Trumata 28^th October
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Bird: On the red carpet with Nykiya Adams, Jason Buda, James Nelson-Joyce and Frankie Box at London Film Festival 2024

The Upcoming hit the red carpet during London Film Festival for the premiere of Bird,...

Sarah Bradbury 23^rd October

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Glasgow
Last Straw
★★★★★

A night of terror awaits the manager of a small-town diner in Last Straw, the...

Andrew Murray 9^th March
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Glasgow
Edge of Summer
★★★★★

Lucy Cohen delivers a tender coming-of-age tale bristling with angsty adolescence in Edge of Summer....

Andrew Murray 8^th March
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Glasgow
Coup!
★★★★★

Writing and directing duo Joseph Schuman and Austin Stark create a giddy and darkly comic...

Andrew Murray 8^th March
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Cinema & Tv
“There are no bangs and flashes; it’s just a story about how we treat each other”: James Cosmo on My Sailor, My Love at Glasgow Film Festival 2023

Veteran actor James Cosmo (Braveheart, Highlander, His Dark Materials) stars opposite Brid Brennan and Catherine...

Andrew Murray 9^th March

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Film festivals
Kneecap
★★★★★

An indigenous language dies once every 40 days, and with it goes a sense of...

Guy Lambert 11^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Dìdi: On the red carpet with Sean Wang, Carlos Lopez and Valerie Bush at Sundance London 2024

This feature debut from filmmaker Sean Wang is a coming-of-age drama set in the 2000s...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Cinema & Tv
Sundance London 2024: On the red carpet with Emerald Fennell

As Sundance Film Festival 2024 celebrates its 40-year anniversary, actor and filmmaker Emerald Fennell was...

Ezelle Alblas 10^th June
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Film festivals
Skywalkers: A Love Story
★★★★★

“We’re telling a love story,” so the self-designated “rooftopper” Angela Nikolau declares of the social...

Thomas Messner 7^th June

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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Under the Volcano

Under the Volcano, the prize-winning second feature film from...

Andrew Murray 8^th December
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: The Wolves Always Come at Night
★★★★★

A seamless blend of fiction and documentary...

Andrew Murray 8^th December
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: Silent Storms
★★★★★

Alongside being heavily associated with evil spirits and jump scares,...

Andrew Murray 8^th December
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Movie
Marrakech Film Festival 2024: One of Those Days When Hemme Dies
★★★★★

Directed by and starring Murat Fıratoğlu in his...

Andrew Murray 8^th December

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Film festivals
The Show of Shows
★★★★★

The history of lost art is always intriguing: what once fascinated...

Daniel Engelke 26th April 2016
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Film festivals
14 Minutes from Earth
★★★★★

It takes just a quarter of an hour to fall from the outer...

Sarah Button 25th April 2016
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AWOL
★★★★★

Though it’s now in cinders, the debate over allowing homosexuals in the...

Daniel Engelke 25th April 2016
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Califórnia
★★★★★

It is difficult to overstate Hollywood’s impact on culture, especially in the...

Daniel Engelke 25th April 2016
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Magnus
★★★★★

At first glance a documentary about the life of a chess grandmaster may seem at...

Sarah Sutton 25th April 2016
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Wolves
★★★★★

Bart Freundlich’s Wolves has been received with enthusiasm at Tribeca Film...

Patricia Contino 25th April 2016
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Film festivals
Tiger Raid
★★★★★

Based on Mick Donnellan’s stage play, Radio Luxembourg, which tells the story...

William Garre 25th April 2016
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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
★★★★★

“A death in the family” is one of the oldest...

Daniel Engelke 25th April 2016
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Film festivals
Youth in Oregon
★★★★★

It is difficult to discuss a controversial topic in film without the...

Daniel Engelke 25th April 2016
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Obit
★★★★★

With a harrowing journey into the lowermost rings of the New York Times’s obituaries...

William Garre 25th April 2016

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