In between his stints working with Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass has directed quite a few devastating exposés of real-life horrors. From his 2002 docudrama Bloody Sunday, which detailed the eponymous ...

The abuse of human rights is one of the great tragedies of history and because it remains so prevalent there have been many documentaries in recent times concerned with it. However, until now I have ...

Just over two weeks ago we lost the independent British film producer Jeremy Thomas, aged 77, whose credits included the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and ...

The winning streak of the horror genre continues apace with the latest instalment from the Aardman stable. With Halloween hovering at the end of next month, a brand-new adventure awaits children of ...

Although Songs of Forgotten Trees is Anuparna Roy's first feature, one can state with absolute confidence that it shows her to be possessed of a totally individual voice. That was in effect recognised ...

It’s a particularly sticky summer’s day. The sun is shining and there’s a humid, stifling atmosphere in the Platt family’s friendly suburban neighbourhood. There’s Mom (Anne Hathaway) and Dad (Ewan ...

The future of mankind has faced innumerable existential threats in the movies, from nuclear Armageddon to viral obliteration. In Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the fourth chapter in the MCU Spider-Man ...

Elize Matsunaga has inspired a book, a documentary miniseries currently available on Netflix and now the ‘true crime’ docudrama, also available on Netflix. The musical should be arriving soon.

Edward Taylor likens people to roses. “And families to rosebushes – and rosebushes need pruning.” He’s an unusual individual in that he’s never learned to read or write or even to drive. So he ...

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. Perhaps no truer a sentiment was coined (by Oscar Wilde) to sum up the circumstances of Angela and Joe. Seth Rogen plays Joe, ...

Sympathetic as this documentary is, I was unable to embrace it as fully as I wished. The filmmakers, Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak, are telling their own story and the fact that most of it plays ...

Much better known in America than she is here, this film’s leading actress Kathleen Chalfont is most famous for her stage work. That is something that you would never guess from her performance here ...