By Sara BrightAs winter’s frost yields to spring’s tentative bloom, March 2025 unfurls a cinematic tapestry as eclectic as it is provocative. From arthouse resurrections…
By Sara Bright Jodie Foster’s Money Monster (2016) is a taut, incisive thriller that dissects the symbiosis between financial corruption and media spectacle. Starring George…
By Sara Bright Nagisa Ōshima’s In the Realm of the Senses (1976) remains one of cinema’s most audacious dissections of desire. Set in 1936 Tokyo,…
By Sara Bright In an industry often dazzled by its own mythology, Gene Hackman carved a legacy not through red-carpet bravado, but via the quiet…
By Sara Noah Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah (1985) remains a monumental feat in documentary filmmaking – a nine-hour opus that forced the world to confront the…
By Sara Bright When Amazon secured creative control of the James Bond franchise for a reported $1.3bn (£1bn), it didn’t just acquire a cinematic icon – it inherited a…
By Sara Bright In the vast expanse of modern cinema, few films manage to seamlessly blend genres while maintaining an authentic narrative voice. “Bone Tomahawk,”…
By Sara Bright When Jeff Bezos asked followers “Who’d you pick as the next Bond?” hours after Amazon MGM sealed its deal with Eon Productions,…
By Sara Bright Demi Moore’s Golden Globe win for The Substance sent shockwaves through Hollywood. A grotesque, darkly comic body horror about ageing and beauty,…
By Sara Bright Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut (1999), remains an enigma wrapped in Venetian masks and Freudian dread. Released months after the…