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…
By Sara Bright As the film world braces for the Academy Awards, the BAFTAs’ role as a bellwether has never been murkier. Typically, Britain’s glittering…
By Sara Bright In recent years, Brazilian cinema has carved a unique space on the global stage, blending poignant storytelling with unflinching social commentary. Among…
By Sara Bright In a year where streaming platforms straddle art and algorithm, 2024’s cinematic offerings oscillate between visceral mastery and synthetic mediocrity. From blood-soaked…
By Sara Bright The fourth and final instalment of the Bridget Jones saga, Mad About the Boy, arrives 24 years after the iconic 2001 debut,…
Marvel Studios released Captain America: Brave New World, the 35th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), during the Presidents’ Day holiday weekend on 14…