Film

If you've seen any of the chat around Shiva Baby in the run-up to its release on these shores, you might have noticed the idea that it's a horror film coming up a lot. It is, of course, not a horror film. It's a comedy with an old-fashioned…

Master of None has been tiptoeing away from its comedic roots from the beginning.  The first season dove into social commentary and dipped its toe into emotional stuff, but never veered too far outside of a personality-driven comedic…

This week we're going from Scotland to Texas to Atlantic City as we take on the career of Kelly Macdonald. Starting off as the underage seductress Diane in Trainspotting, Macdonald channeled this success into securing strong roles in Robert…

Landscapes and objects have a prodigious capacity to tell stories without words. And cinema - as a medium built on the exploration of time - is particularly suited to unearth these non-living sites as narrative repositories. In a poignant…

With the release of Godzilla vs. Kong, there is no better time to explore this lesser-known animated series for our cartoon catch-ups. Kong: The Animated Series was an American-Canadian production that ran for two seasons, beginning in…

I guess this is the time where we decide if Brian Hegeland’s A Knight’s Tale still holds up after twenty years. Well surprise, chumps and chumpettes: it never stopped holding up. It is the quiet cousin of the…

The 80’s nostalgia trend has had a good moment in the sun, buoyed by the success of Stranger Things. For several years we have had innumerable shots of kids riding bicycles, 80’s pop needle drops and carefully placed ephemera of the period…

Say what you like about Zack Snyder, say he knows what his job is. Under European law the director is considered the author, that is the guiding force, of a film. Just as a literature author will be in charge of both the technical and…

It's golden-oldies week on I Know That Face. Take a step back in time to the Golden Age of Hollywood with Andrew and Stephen to revisit the career of Edward G. Robinson, see? Known for his tough-guy gangsters in films like Little Caesar and…

After a tumultuous couple of years, reality has done well in catching up with the bleak speculative-tech fictions of Black Mirror and Weird City. Not that we’ve seen the end of this ilk of dystopian fiction on our screens, but it does seem…