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Moritz Mohr’s Boy Kills World is aware you have seen it all before. The film doesn’t even try to cover its comic book, computer game, The Hunger Games inspirations, which is why it comes racing out th…
One of the first things that strikes you when you land in Delhi is that vanar and Hanuman-inspired imagery—drawing from Hindu mythology and texts such as the Ramayana—is everywhere. If you’re catching…
At the 96th Academy Awards, there was a moment of cheeky promotional work for Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s latest flick The Fall Guy, with the two actors taking to the stage to honour the work of th…
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi won an Academy Award for Drive My Car based on a Haruki Murakami story. Suddenly after years of patiently making precise and complex cinema he was a “super star.” The same year his p…
Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is one of the most salacious movies of the year - turning the sport of tennis into a sexy thrill ride. The director's recent filmography has had him channel the m…
The tide ebbs and flows. There is a giving and taking across the horizon. The stark blackness of the night contrasts against the crashing waves that bask in white light. The water in the foreground la…
“Dreamer awake, dreamer awake, dreamer awake” “The greatest trick the devil played was to convince the world he wasn’t real” or so the quote goes. The greatest trick Cameron and Colin Cairnes are pla…
It is almost strange to pump one's fist in the air as massive, burly CGI creations take gargantuan punches at each other. The creators of the MonsterVerse are deliberately provoking the reactions…
The word ‘limitation’ isn’t in director Jordon Prince-Wright’s vocabulary. His first feature film, 2018’s The Decadent and Depraved, saw him tackle the Meat Pie Western alongside co-director Axel Aug…
If Alex Garland had managed to get Civil War on the screen even seven years ago it would be entirely a five-star film. Garland has made the somewhat redundant point in interviews that Civil War is “…s…
Until 2011, Sudan was the largest country in Africa. The secession that created South Sudan represented years of tensions between the mainly Northern Muslim Sunni Arab population and the repressed Afr…
Italian director Matteo Garrone has cycled through many genres to tell Italian stories. Whether it be a version of Pinocchio, a bleak crime drama, Gomorra, or an anthology based on Italian folk and fa…