So this is how the world ends: not with a bang, but with a bunch of French politicians arguing with each other in a meeting ...

It was notable at this year’s Cannes how many movies re-examined France and the Second World War. It’s been obvious for some years now how the French film industry has been retelling its own stories ...

It’s still somewhat unusual for movies out of China to be made in one of their quote-unquote minority languages, and it’s a bit odd to refer to Teochew, which has approximately 20 million speakers, as ...

Writer-director Volker Schlöndorff probably remains best known for his 1979 film The Tin Drum, but that underestimates his career. He has been a solid and thoughtful filmmaker both in English and his ...

The best film of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival premiered out of competition. La Bataille de Gaulle: L’Âge de Fer, which has the English title De Gaulle: Résistance, is an absolute triumph of cinema.

Shereford, New Hampshire is the kind of small town that makes other small towns envious. There’s a perfect little main street, all of two full-time cops (and a third part-time one), and the local rich ...

I confess I went into The Last House with a strange kind of curiosity that had nothing to do with horror and everything to do with career pivots. Louis Leterrier has spent the better part of two ...

When it comes to animated superhero properties, my knowledge is rather limited. The only one that I had any insight into was, of course, Batman. Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader proved a major ...

This charming little movie doesn’t reinvent the wheel, but it does do three things. It makes the case that Haley Bennett is one of our most overlooked movie stars, it introduces Austrian actor Elyas M ...

Travel remains one of life’s luxuries where, for a few hours whilst in the air, passengers are encouraged to switch off from outside distractions and disconnect those online connections. Therefore to ...

Another book, another level. This time, instead of a snarled mess of train lines, the crawlers have to defeat four castles inside their self-contained bubbles in order for the stairs to activate. Each ...

At the helm of this tale are actresses Luisa Ranieri and Jasmine Trinca impressively playing themselves but also the sisters Alberta and Gabriella in the fictional 1970s drama set within a couture ...