Paul Risker - 13-09-2024

Paul Risker interviews the Egyptian director of I Don't Care If The World Collapses, about a "Faustian deal" he made with capitalism while shooting a commercial; they talk about sensory and intellectual connections, the intent to provoke, shooting inside a constructed set, connecting with audiences despite manyfold differences, and much more [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 11-09-2024

Victoria Luxford interviews Ziyu Lou, the director of American Daydream; they talk about undocumented immigrants, language barriers, Confucian values, shifting from comedy to drama, and... cooking Chinese food for your cast and crew! [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 10-09-2024

The director of The Serena Variations - about an autistic violinist coaxed into taking drugs - talks about the pressures musicians face, taking psychedelics, the Niccolò Paganini connection, seeking the approval of mentors, and much more [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 10-09-2024

Kate Winslet stars as iconic war photographer Lee Miller, in this insightful yet dispirited biopic of a woman partly erased from history - in cinemas on Friday, September 13th [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 09-09-2024

Chinese-American doctor has to grapple with her passion for acting and her undocumented mother, in this non-judgmental take on the American Dream - from the HollyShorts Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 08-09-2024

Family differences and serendipities punctuate this "modern" portrait of Iran - artist-turned-filmmaker showcases his debut feature in the Venice Days strand of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 08-09-2024

Wang Bing's final entry in the trilogy of Chinese workers in the shortest instalment, at a "mere" 153 minutes of observational cinema - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-09-2024

Herdsman becomes a hesitant horseback performer for Chinese tourists, in this exquisite arthouse drama from Inner Mongolia - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival. [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-09-2024

Amazon riverside girl is denied the right over her body - jarring child prostitution drama from Brazil wins Venice Days' top prize [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 07-09-2024

Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to inject small doses of meaning and joy into her thankless existence - British social realist drama premieres at Tiff and San Sebastian [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-09-2024

Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-09-2024

Sicilian mafioso and cunning politician play cat and mouse, in this prolonged and prosaic psychological thriller - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 06-09-2024

Anger morphs into murderous thoughts, in this quiet and slow character study from Turkey - from the Orizzonti section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 05-09-2024

Two desperate parents scramble to find their missing baby girl, on a quest aided by surveillance technology - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 05-09-2024

Takeshi Kitano's completely bonkers slapstick crime thriller from hell gets moody festival audiences lolling - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 05-09-2024

Spectacular piece of slow cinema from Georgia dissects the female body with raw fervour - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Paul Risker - 05-09-2024

Karim Shaaban's short film dramatises his experience directing a commercial to depict the Faustian deal we've made with capitalism - from the Cleveland International Film Festival [Read More...]

Marina Hillquist - 04-09-2024

Marina Hallquist carefully cherry picks seven extraordinarily dirty movies that can help to shed the light of education on students and adults alike [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

Italian director sets out to celebrate pornography, but instead legitimises the old prejudices she aimed to denounce - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

Todd Phillips's sequel to his own 2019 movie is an elegant and profound blend of musical fantasy and courtroom drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

Sicilian soldier stirs the relative peace of a large Italian family, in this beautiful yet soporific drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

A widowed father of two sons despairs as his eldest mingles with fascists, in this effective social realist drama set in France - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Nataliia Serebriakova - 04-09-2024

Ukrainian filmmaker reflects on the normalisation of war, in a documentary dotted with haunting snippets of everyday life - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2024

Farming villagers of Scotland grapple with meddling outsiders, in Athina Rachel Tsangari's rich yet protracted new drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2024

Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William Burroughs's early short novel (starring a drug-addicted, randy Daniel Craig) is an anodyne blend of strawberry fantasy and vanilla erotica - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2024

Asif Kapadia's blend of documentary and sci-fi is a disappointing mess, undecided about its priorities - from the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Steve Naish - 03-09-2024

Aude Léa Rapin's sci-fi offers a grim representation of a dystopian French state that has emerged into a high-surveillance, low-tolerance society - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2024

A lawyer suffering from a bizarre neurological condition embarks on a road trip, but is his journey real or imaginary? French drama premieres in the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 02-09-2024

Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies - GOLDEN LION WINNER at the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 02-09-2024

The mind of an autistic violinist unravels as she is coaxed into taking drugs and pitted against her contemporaries - from Raindance [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

George Clooney and Brad Pitt trade barbs and snide comments, in this entertaining comedy thriller - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - from the the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 01-09-2024

Italian filmmaker and French street artist join forces in order to create an exuberant short film blending urban textures and techniques - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2024

Jew-hating supremacist is the focus of this trivial American bang-bang with disingenuous political undertones - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2024

WW1 drama about self-harmers and the Spanish flu is so clumsily staged that it's barely watchable - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 31-08-2024

Feuding teens see their paths collide more than once, in this very long and (mostly) accomplished French drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

The vicissitudes of love unite, excite and haunt three female friends, in this simple and effective, Truffaut-esque drama- from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

Mother of three boys is hellbent on having a daughter, in this profound real-life drama from Italy - in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

Nicole Kidman gets on all fours and drinks milk from a saucer, in Hollywood's latest, extremely lame attempt to normalise subversive female pleasures - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

John Lennon and Yoko Ono become American conveyors of change during the early 1970s, in this superbly assembled documentary - the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-08-2024

Fly-on-the-wall documentary captures the pro-democracy-fervour in post-revolution Sudan, as well as the violence and the delusion that ensued - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2024

Junky jockey watches his life crumble after a freak accident takes him off horse racing - wacky Argentinian comedy is in the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2024

Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas engage in a fierce battle for the spotlight, in Pablo Larrain's uneven biopic of the tragic diva - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-08-2024

Errol Morris's doc about Trump's family separation policy focuses on the self-proclaimed saviours, while never hearing the countless victims - from the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-08-2024

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder star in Tim Burton's colourful and disjointed sequel to 1988's Beetlejuice, which is in cinemas on Friday, September 6th [Read More...]

Marina Hillquist - 28-08-2024

Marina Hillquist investigates how the James Bond classic Casino Royale influencd public perceptions of poker, and changed how we see the game forever [Read More...]

Nataliia Serebriakova - 26-08-2024

Ukrainian journalist Nataliia Serebriakova interviews her fellow countrywoman, just as she premieres her jarring "mosaic" of a war documentary at the Biennale [Read More...]

Ariana Martinez - 26-08-2024

Ariana Martinez dissects Neil LaBute's sophomore feature, thereby exposing toxic males, filthy dykes and putrescent spirits [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 23-08-2024

Three missing people make a mysterious return, in Tunisian drama glimmering of horror and religious undertones - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]

Daniel Theophanous - 23-08-2024

Pervy millionaire (Channing Tatum) lures young women into his sun-soaked, drug-fuelled Mexican villa, and subjects them to horrors a la Ari Aster and Jordan Peele - in cinemas on Friday, August 23rd [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 19-08-2024

Eoghan Lyng attended the Locarno Film Festival for the first time, on behalf of DMovies. He encountered an impressive selection of films bursting with the desire to say something urgent, often in the face of shocking adversity [Read More...]

Paul Risker - 19-08-2024

Paul Risker interviews the director of "sharp and prescient" dramedy At Capacity; they discuss musicals, Billy Wilder, creating a kinetic colour palette, political cinema, shorts as a pure form of expression, and more! [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 18-08-2024

Victoria Luxford interviews Alina Orlov just as she premieres The Cavalry in Locarno; they talk about filming with the Israeli police, animal abuse as a metaphor for human authoritarianism, and raising awareness of what Israel "has been doing for the last more than half a century" [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-08-2024

The director of extraordinary religion drama Apostasy returns with a completely different film: an English folk horror that's visually exuberant and yet fails to engage and scare - in cinemas on Friday, September 6th [Read More...]