By Anne Fry When Lila Vogt’s Dangerous Secrets premiered in March 2025, the European Court of Justice had just penalised five member states – Germany…
By Sara Bright When Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy opened in UK cinemas on 12 February 2025, it did something the romantic comedy genre…
By Sara Bright Twenty-four years after Helen Fielding first adapted her Independent column into a film that redefined the British romantic comedy, the Bridget Jones…
By Sara Bright In April, S. Craig Zahler stepped onto a Toronto soundstage to begin shooting The Bookie and the Bruiser, a period mafia thriller…
By Tessa Nolan When the 68th BFI London Film Festival closed on 20 October 2024, the numbers told a story that even the most optimistic…
By Sara Bright There is a photograph Debra Winger keeps from the Sahara. She stands at the edge of the dunes in Tuareg robes, facing…
By Tessa Nolan When Mattel unveiled its “Women in Film” Barbie range in January 2024 – just three months after the Writers Guild of America…
By Tessa Nolan On 11 September 1979, a fifteen-year-old Lisbon boy boarded a flight bound for Moscow, carrying a scholarship, a head full of socialist…
By Sara Bright In the spring of 1999, a 26-year-old Ben Affleck sat in a recording booth and dismantled the very film he had just…
By Sara Bright When Barbara Broccoli described Amazon’s executives as “fucking idiots” in a Wall Street Journal interview, she was not merely venting frustration. She…