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Tennis has never been this sexy. Challengers, the new film by Luca Guadagnino, ducks and weaves through lusting gazes, homoerotic...

Outcast adolescents beneath the underdog take centre stage in Japanese-American director Gregg Araki’s youth-oriented films. Notorious...

Ahead of Barbican Cinema's annual Chronic Youth Film Festival, the festival that celebrates the work of the young programmers in this...

Watching Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera, I couldn’t help returning to D. H. Lawrence’s late-career lyric Bavarian Gentians. Written in the...

In a bid to match his excitement for this film, I’m going to shamelessly use the assertive, if enigmatic, opening phrase of Roger Ebert’s...

The film opens in a distant, grainy, black-and-white past, showing us the opening ceremony for the permanent buildings of Ibadan...

When Sav Rodgers was twelve years old, he encountered Chasing Amy, Kevin Smith’s 1997 independent slacker comedy about a cisgender...

Max Mir is an award-winning director who has recently moved to London. I met with him to discuss his latest film, his chance encounter...

Alain Kassanda’s latest documentary Coconut Head Generation follows the Thursday Film Series, a movie club at the University of Ibadan,...

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival returns to London for its 28th year, providing a plethora of films from across the world, all...