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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is yet another excellent film from the director - a jaw-dropping Ancient Gree…

Peter Mullan is brilliant in The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, an enjoyable character study of a man strug…

This month's Cinematic Sense newsletter has it all. Cannes fallout! New Oscar rules! Box office talk! Old Wes…

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive is great. Its score is iconic. But did you know of its rescored soundtrack fille…

This year's Cannes includes films from Pedro Almodovar, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Hirokazu-Kore-eda. But who will…

One of the biggest British hits when it was released in the country last year, I Swear has finally made its w…

With WrestleMania right around the corner, here are some of the wrestling gimmicks taken from the world of fi…

With WrestleMania right around the corner, here are some of the wrestling gimmicks taken from the world of fi…

"Green Acres, Beverly Hillbillies, Hooterville Junction. Will no longer be so goddamn relevant."

From New Zealand, Big Girls Don't Cry is a very good coming-of-age drama about the space between adolescence …

During 2026, I watched and wrote about every major project by David Lynch. This is every post in that year-lo…

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With 28 Years Later, Danny Boyle returns to his zombie series for a work about Britain, death and (most radic…

Ryan Coogler cements his visionary status in Sinners, an electric vampire horror movie that positions music a…

A new film review of Little Trouble Girls, directed by Urška Djukić.

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Josh O'Connor is captivating once again in Rebuilding, about a cowboy who finds community after losing his ra…

Mark Jenkin's completely engrossing Rose of Nevada is a time-travel story that doubles as an unforgettable fi…

Jafar Panahi's weighty, complex Palme d'Or winner about former prisoners deciding what to do with the man who…

George Clooney's movie star looks back on his life in Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly, a comedy-drama with more reg…

Renate Reinsve and Stellan Skarsgard are brilliant in Sentimental Value, another empathetic and masterfully h…

Rian Johnson's latest Knives Out film goes Gothic for the franchise's most dramatic mystery yet - but it's Jo…

François Ozon is a peculiar filmmaker. The French director’s output is as prolific (25 films in nearly 30 yea…

If you weren’t around to experience it in real time, it will be hard to grasp how seismic the 2002 FIFA World…