“Now that sex is available to us in hardcore porno films, death remains the one last taboo in cinema,” wrote the film critic Amos Vogel in 1980. Sex and death, Vogel believed, were the two facets of life hidden behind closed...
When an actor takes on multiple roles in a movie, you’re forced to wonder if this casting choice has been made...
Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges...
Perhaps I’m just a worrywart, but in the hypothetical event I decided to raise a chimpanzee as a member of my family, I would be...
If anyone was going to try to adapt Silent Hill 2, one of video gaming’s most spectacular artistic achievements, you could...
Grief never really goes away, but its initial impact takes many forms. Some people are paralysed for months on end....
Without the glossy production values that come with screening in a multiplex, film clubs like Speed and Strike sell themselves on...
Every year at the Tokyo International Film Festival, the programming team makes an effort to champion emerging talent that challenges...
This is a film about the constant sense of being slightly out of step with where you are standing, rendered with...
It’s nearing a quarter-century since the retirement of “Prince” Naseem Hamed, Sheffield’s world champion boxer of Yemeni heritage. For a while, in...
