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Watch the official short film selections from canceled SXSW festival
70+ short films from this year’s fest are being made available for you to watch.
26 Mar
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Martin Scorsese doubles down on anti-Marvel stance in opinion piece
“The act of simply writing those words fills me with terrible sadness.”
05 Nov
reviews
El Camino confirms Jesse Pinkman is Aaron Paul’s role of a lifetime
Paul’s performance in Netflix pic continues to show he’s got incredible acting chops
14 Oct
reviews
Good Boys is what you want from a tween comedy laced with F-bombs, sex toys and drugs
Teen comedy tropes get appropriately scaled down to 12-year-olds.
17 Sep
reviews
You’ll feel every drop of sweat in the stunning Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin’s performance will blow you away.
04 Sep
features
Cliff Curtis talks to us about his role in “absurdly large” action pic Hobbs & Shaw
Cliff Curtis talks to Steve Newall about his role in the blockbuster spinoff.
07 Aug
reviews
Daisy Ridley brings Ophelia to life in this fresh take on Shakespeare’s Hamlet
And Clive Owen’s wig is a truly absurd sight to behold.
11 Jul
features
We speak to the great auteur Bong Joon-Ho about his new film Parasite
A poor family’s and a rich family’s lives unexpectedly intersect.
25 Jun
reviews
Tense sci-fi thriller I Am Mother is a notch above most straight-to-Netflix fare
There’s plenty to recommend in this increasingly paranoid sci-fi three-hander.
07 Jun
features
Rocketman director tells us about bringing larger-than-life Elton John to the screen
“It was that very heightened reality that I really wanted to create”
27 May
reviews
New to Netflix, Prospect is an above-average sci-fi Western gem
A lot more to offer than just being an exercise in trope regurgitation.
08 May
reviews
We loved the absolute hell out of rom-com Long Shot
Rogen and Theron are funny as all hell.
02 May
features
Breaking Habits director tells us about his doco’s weed-dealing nuns
‘She got very angry with me and was like, “It’s not a gimmick.”‘
16 Apr
reviews
The Hellboy reboot is an utter stinker
A desperate misfire.
11 Apr
features
Captain Marvel, latest in a long line of films improved by cats
Goose is just the most recent scene-stealing cinema feline.
05 Mar
reviews
Netflix doco turns Fyre Festival into gloriously watchable, must-see insanity
You’ve simply got to see it.
18 Jan
reviews
Cold War is an all killer, no filler musical love story
Reaches right into your heart for squeezes both gentle and much more crushing.
03 Jan
features
Remembering Geoff Murphy with one of his tallest Hollywood tales
Read an excerpt from Murphy’s memoir A Life on Film.
04 Dec
features
Interview: The Room’s Greg Sestero on Best F(r)iends: Volume 2
After introducing audiences to Best F(r)iends: Volume 1 earlier this year, writer and lead actor Greg Sestero returns with Best F(r)iends: Volume 2.
30 Nov
reviews
Sorry to Bother You is an astonishing, surreal, shit-stirring satire
Words like “weird” or “eccentric” can’t do justice to it
28 Nov
reviews
Netflix horror May the Devil Take You has enjoyable, familiar, scares
Plenty of blood-soaked, broken-limbed moments, impactful scares and gross-outs.
22 Nov
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