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Photo by Julia Barrantes via Pexels (licensed under the Pexels Licence) Erika Kohut, the piano teacher, stands in her ultralong skirt and perfectly modest blouse, clutching the chest from which blood now oozes – a self-inflicted stab wound. She does not cry. She exits the concert hall in which she is set to perform and disappears into the streets of Vienna. The credits roll. Congratulations, viewer, you may now mark ‘The Piano Teacher’ (Michael Haneke, 2001) as watched on Let

Upon the release of the ‘Backrooms’ trailer, excitement was entwined with concern online over how exactly it would be pulled off.

Through a combination of contemporary footage and archived material, present-day interviews and reflections, Northern Soul: Still Burning resurfaces the story of the underground scene as it erupted through (and beyond) the Northern towns of England.

Never Had a Chance is a gritty West-London crime drama which debuted at the UK Asian Film Festival on 9th May 2026. The Strand Magazine sat down with director and writer Jazz Bhalla to discuss his motivations behind making this story.

Never Had A Chance is a gritty, west London crime drama that focuses almost entirely on the love story between Ravi and Sukhi, two Punjabi-British young adults, and the struggles and conflicts that result from Ravi’s quickly spiralling personal life.

Hokum follows the journey of apathetic American author Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) to the rural Irish hotel where his parents once honeymooned.

The philosophical question, “Is a crime defined by the act itself, or by the mind that conceived it?” anchors The Drama (2026)

The Rose of Nevada doesn’t open simply; it instead offers glimpses at decay: rotting timber, lichen and images of a Cornish fishing town well past its prime. The opening scenes of the film offer a glimpse of the plot to come: a movie about time and what we owe to our community.

This film is a true celebration for film lovers, and marks the promising beginning of what could be an unforgettable summer at the cinema.

Illustration by Maddy Maguire Every woman with a Letterboxd account and an attraction to the opposite sex can tell you precisely where they were when Timothée Chalamet first bewitched them. Personally, I was in my living room, pretending to revise for my A-level mocks. Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird (2019) was on the television, muted, and I looked up for two seconds only to forget what it meant to breathe. It’s a terrible truth, but it is my own. There Timothée was, in all his Fr