By Tessa Nolan When a New York jury deadlocked for the second time in a year on Harvey Weinstein’s rape charge on 15 May 2026…
By Sara Bright In the summer of 1998, a 30-year-old dyslexic filmmaker from Hatfield released a crime comedy made for less money than a single…
By Sara Bright Kristen Stewart did not arrive at the director’s chair by accident. She arrived by storm, dragging eight years of stubbornness, a lifetime…
By Sara Bright There is a moment early in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery when Father Jud Duplenticy, a young priest, is…
By Tessa Nolan Kathryn Bigelow does not think of herself as a filmmaker who happens to be a woman. She has always resisted that formulation,…
By Tessa Nolan When the first set photographs of Jude Law as Vladimir Putin emerged from the cobbled streets of Riga in March 2025, the…
By Sara Bright When The Wizard of the Kremlin received a ten-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 2025, the audience…
By Sara Bright Life moves pretty fast. So does cultural memory – until something stops you in your tracks. In 2026, the past is John…
By Sara Bright There is a statistic in cinema that sounds like a pub quiz lie, except it is verifiably true. John Cazale appeared in…
By Sara Bright January is traditionally television’s dumping ground – the month networks schedule their casualties. But as we noted in our most anticipated premieres…