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‘The Apprentice’ LFF 2024 Review: How Trump Learnt to Be Bad
Since its production was first announced, a striking storm of opinions and controversies have surrounded The Apprentice , The Trump...
Hannah Philcox-Booth
Oct 28, 20243 min read


‘All We Imagine as Light’ LFF 2024 Review: Blues, Bustle, and Beyond
All We Imagine as Light , directed by Payal Kapadia, premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024, where it was awarded the...
Emma Todbjerg
Oct 26, 20244 min read


‘Bury Your Dead’ LFF 2024 Review: Apocalypse and Ascension
Brazilian director Marco Dutra’s latest feature film, Bury Your Dead , fuses bewildering futuristic horror with biblical visions. The...
Hannah Tang
Oct 26, 20243 min read


Denis Villeneuve Screen Talk LFF 2024: Science Fiction and Silence
An icon of cinema with a flawless filmography, French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve graces Royal Festival Hall with his presence...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


‘Harvest’ LFF 2024 Review: Cultivation and Chaos
A hazy mosaic of ripe wheat and endless fields, Harvest is a pastoral hallucination slathered in mud and haunted by a threatening...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


‘September Says’ LFF 2024 Review: Intimacy and Imitation
In a recent Cannes Film Festival interview, actress and director Ariane Labed described her first feature film, September Says (an...
Hannah Tang
Oct 21, 20243 min read


BFI Flare 2024 Programme Released
BFI Flare Film Festival returns for its 38th year, with a programme dedicated to films by LGBTQIA+ creatives about their experience of...
Oisín McGilloway
Mar 8, 20243 min read


The Scala Of Tomorrow: Where Is Cult Cinema Today?
Sticky seats, loud heckling, and the not-so-vague hint of booze. These are the remains of the Scala Cinema for those ever-devoted fans....
Barney Nuttall
Jan 31, 20245 min read


'All Of Us Strangers' LFF 2023 Review: An Overwrought But Undeniably Shattering Fantasy
Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers has brought about some of the most impassioned responses of the festival season. It is certifiably...
Charlie Taylor
Nov 16, 20234 min read


'I Am Sirat' LFF 2023 Review: A Love Story
Once a movie is finished, the common practice is to get up and leave as the credits roll. Of course, if you’re someone who religiously...
Anainah Dalal
Nov 16, 20235 min read
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