When Robert De Niro radically transformed his body to play the boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, it meant he was serious about his craft, and reshaped our understanding of authenticity in acting. What does it mean that Sydney Sweeney transformed...
Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source...
It is that Finnish word “that cannot be translated” again, and yet which is translated, also again, in opening text, as “a...
The accusation of “all style, no substance” gets thrown around often, sometimes appropriately, but what about a film that has neither style...
The invisible loyalties between Vinz, Hubert and Saïd suggest that they are childhood friends, splintering in young adulthood because of...
Despite only running between 2004 and 2007, To Catch a Predator had an indelible impact on popular culture. Fronted by the...
While Kelly reckons with his own personal failings – occasionally detailed in flashbacks filling out his path to stardom –...
Predators: Badlands works best when it’s dealing with the organic. In the soft, frictionless world of so many computer-generated tentpole spectacles,...
A conflicted elegy for an America poisoned by manifest destiny, Denis Johnson’s captivating 2011 novella spans most of a century, from...
It was the Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised, and Harlem-championing photojournalist Kwame Brathwaite who came to popularise the phrase “Black is Beautiful,” which...
