Film

In this special episode of I Know That Face, co-host Stephen Porzio chats with Catherine S. McMullen, the writer of The Other Lamb. Now streaming on Mubi UK and Ireland, it centres on a girl (Raffey Cassidy - The Killing of a Sacred Deer,…

The Czech New Wave is this insanely rich torrent of creativity that erupts in the former Czechoslovakia in the tiniest of time frames - roughly 1964-1968. It’s a mayfly of a wave, ephemeral and utterly unique. Seen from a distance it feels…

The Crown season four opens with a bang. Quite literally. For three seasons, creator and lead writer Peter Morgan had been reticent about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. While incidents like Aberfan disaster and the UK miners’ strike of…

"So give me a stage, Where this Bull here could rage.." The 1980 classic Raging Bull is one of the greatest biopics of all time. Nowadays we are fed one after another, and the genre is soaked with uneven, unbalanced outings. Above all of…

The announcement that there will soon be a sequel to the 2020 Vin Diesel superhero actioner Bloodshot has mostly been met with bemusement. “Y Tho” is the dominant response expressed through numerous memes. To most it was a failed attempt to…

Stop motion is an animated filmmaking technique. It is when objects – typically made of plasticine or clay - are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so they appear to move when the series of…

Call us Ishmael, because we've just landed our first white whale! In celebration of our first anniversary we've decided to cover the inestimable Willem Dafoe. Over two episodes we'll be looking at his long, varied screen career with Part…

William Petersen had to work hard to get the role of Gil Grissom in the original CSI. Grissom was a combination of lab scientist and field agent, two things Petersen embodied in his first two leading roles with the kind of smoldering…

The live-action family film has not had a great few years, it must be said. Paul King’s excellent Paddington films were two of the few bright sparks during a time when the genre was beset with rapping chipmunks and an endless supply of…

Acclaimed screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz once recalled the time he contacted Sir Sean Connery to reprise his role as James Bond Agent 007 in Live and Let Die, the eighth Bond picture in just over a decade. An embittered Connery responded…