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How does one start to review Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, an adaptation of one of the oldest, most epic, and most famous stories ever told? Well, one could cast their mind back to one of Nolan's "smaller" films, The Prestige. Because every great movie, and every great story, is similar to every great magic trick, in that they consist of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". The magician shows you something ordinary: a deck of cards, a bird or a man. He shows you this object.

The Curse is marketed as an homage to iconic J-Horrors such as Ringu and Ju-On. A wave of Asian films in the late Nineties and early Noughties that made audiences afraid of everything from mirrors to damp in the ceiling. From videotapes to mobile phones.

As we enter the all-you-can-eat blockbuster buffet this Summer, Olivia Wilde's The Invite is the perfect amuse-bouche or palate cleanser for your movie menu. Taking place over the course of one extremely eventful evening, the cracks in Joe and Angela's marriage threaten to turn into inescapable chasms when Angela issues the titular invite to the [...]

In terms of 2026 summer blockbusters, anticipation is high for Supergirl. James Gunn's Superman reignites hopes for a modernised and positively received DC Universe, after the DC Extended Universe crashed and burned with The Flash, Black Adam and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Gunn's take on Superman aimed to 'softly' reboot the series and the [...]

The latest Chinese family drama by Lan Hongchun, Dear You, is a rarity in contemporary cinema. A low-budget production featuring a mostly first-time cast, it is filmed in the Teochew dialect, which originates from the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong. Though it is not as widely spoken as Mandarin, Cantonese or Hakka, the film's homage to Teochew culture has made it a box office hit in China, grossing over 1.7 billion yuan in the box office.

Life can be determined by various things. The people you meet, the paths you take, even the decisions you make. Yet it can be hard to visualise a future when life gets in the way. Tracy Choi's triptych Girlfriends, which premiered at London's Queer East film festival, explores this as it follows the same character [...]

Starting out in the 1993 TV adaptation of Bruce Lee's Fist of Fury starring Donnie Yen, Japanese filmmaker Kenji Tanagaki has made a name for himself as a prolific action choreographer in Hong Kong cinema with Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In and 2023 wuxia film Sakra.

For a lot of older audiences, He-Man feels like a flashback to their childhood. He was a warrior hero with faithful companions, a powerful sword and a memorable enemy in the skull-faced warlord Skeletor. The character was popularised in a series of toys, resulting in a longstanding legacy stemming from its 1980s cartoon series to the 2021 Netflix series by Clerks director Kevin Smith.