Sunday 14th September 2025

Film

The Blue Trail: Reviewed

★★★★☆ The Blue Trail (O Último Azul), this year’s winner of the Berlin International Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, is probably unlike most things you’ve seen before. Set in a...

Just like the movies: An American’s notes on her Oxford year

Oxford occupies a mystical, almost fantastical place within the American psyche – so much...

Netflix’s city of dreaming Americans: My Oxford Year, reviewed

If not taken too seriously, Netflix’s new movie My Oxford Year is a surprisingly...

Lacking Latin: Ceremonial mistakes in My Oxford Year

My Oxford Year, a new Netflix rom-com, has received considerable attention. Yet as a...

‘Widows’ is a celebration of female grit and resolve

Viola Davis leads a group of kick-ass women in a heist film with a lot on its mind

The appeal of method acting

Many actors go to great lengths in pursuit of an authentic performance

Merlin: The magic of kindness

Exploring the continuing relevance of BBC's Merlin

Overlord combines fun, gore, and flaws galore

An entertaining yet terrifying film that will keep you on the edge of your seat

‘I just try to see the world clearly’: An Interview with Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux speaks to Abby Ridsdill-Smith about politics, popularity, and participating in a sensual eating party

Loveable rogues: why we love a good villain

The old proverb that a hero is only as great as their villain is a valid concept. In order to understand a villain, we...

Enchanted by the power of on-screen magic

Serena Arthur explores how our perceptions of magic transform throughout life

‘Halloween’ is a bloody good entry in the series

40 years after the original film changed the slasher genre forever, Jamie Lee Curtis and Michael Myers face off once more...

It’s one small step for Damien Chazelle: ‘First Man’ review

The director of 'Whiplash' and 'La La Land' bring his best to this much-anticipated Neil Armstrong biopic

22 July: Netflix dramatises Norway’s darkest day

With 22 July, Paul Greengrass has answered the question of how to convert tragedy into film. In handling the harrowing 2011 Norway attacks that...

‘A Star Is Born’ as Bradley Cooper makes an impressive directorial debut

"It's the same story told over and over; all an artist can do is say how they see it"

Bringing Doctor Who out of the past

Regeneration, one of Doctor Who’s most iconic plot ideas, bakes the theme of rebirth in the show’s very DNA, yet it is important to...

Krypton: Reinventing the Superhero genre

By virtue of being a prequel, Krypton already had critics poised to question whether we really needed a TV show exploring Superman’s homeworld. Surely...

The Bodyguard: Recovering from the TV event of the year

It’s not hard to figure out why the nation has been so gripped by The Bodyguard this September. The show is a political thriller...

The appeal of dystopian drama

Why have we produced so many stories about the end of the world as we know it?

Crazy Rich Asians review — a rom-com deserving of the big-screen

Whether it's a landmark in Asian representation on film, a slap in the face to Netflix, or a great romantic-comedy, Crazy Rich Asians can be enjoyed by pretty much anyone

Fandom: democracy or tyranny?

Hollywood's decisions have become increasingly determined by internet fandoms

The Summer Movie Season: A Retrospective

From the hits to the flops, these are the films that defined this years summer movie season

BlacKkKlansman review – Spike Lee’s return to form?

The film may be based on an outrageous true story, but little will prepare you for Spike Lee's polemical parallels between the 1970s and the current state of America

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