Steph Green

When A Clockwork Orange landed on British screens in 1971 to a fanfare of pearl-clutching public rage, director Stanley Kubrick knew that he had done the novel justice. The dystopian tale of a delinquent teenager […]

From the laugh-a-minute Christmas in Connecticut to family heart-warmer Meet Me in St. Louis, Christmas in 1940s cinema was varied, lucrative and popular. Steph Green talks through some of the silver screen […]

TW: sexual assault

With his 22nd feature film, Spanish master Pedro Almodóvar manages to keep his trademarks fresh with a witty and watchable drama about motherhood.

★★★✰✰ 

The first film since his c […]

★★★★✰

Academy Award winner Jean Dujardin keeps the humour dry and tone off-kilter as a jacket-loving divorcé in Deerskin, Quentin Dupieux’s rollicking satire.

A critique of consumerism; a parable abou […]

New films from Mia Hansen-Love, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, François Ozon and more will compete in this year’s edition of the prestigious event.

The full line-up for the 74th Cannes Film Festival has been […]

British actor Helen McCrory has died aged 52 after battling cancer, her husband confirmed in a statement this afternoon.

Posting on Twitter, he wrote: “I’m heartbroken to announce that after an heroic bat […]

Stuck on what to stream this month? Unlike other lists, we’re on hand to recommend a variety of films for every mood: from tear-jerkers to trailblazers. Here are our picks for the best films to stream in the UK t […]

Tom Prior and Oleg Zagorodnii star as Soviet Air Force soldiers grappling with sexual tension and professional pride in Peeter Rebane’s debut feature. But with its familiar structure and sanitized approach, F […]

A policeman must wrestle with his own remorse in Drift Away, a rippling drama that ultimately raises more issues than it can appraise. 

Not long into Xavier Beauvois’ picturesque 10th feature, Drift Away (A […]

Dead Sexy: A Column on Erotic Thrillers

David Cronenberg’s glacial and oddly moving fetish thriller Crash turns 25 this year. But has its depiction of futurism and kink become dated, or does this erotic t […]

The beloved director has revealed 50 of his personal favourite films from British cinema, from Kind Hearts and Coronets to The Innocents.

Edgar Wright, in a series of tweets posted today, explained that he […]

With countless iconic roles and three Academy Award nominations under his belt, Danish-American actor Viggo Mortensen has turned his hand to directing. The result is a foul-mouthed intergenerational drama that […]

What with the constant film release delays and cinema closures, the cinephile in your life may be feeling a little dejected this year. Luckily for them, we’ve compiled a mammoth list of gifts to cheer them up […]

What do fictional serial killer Patrick Bateman and I have in common, aside from an encyclopaedic knowledge of the musical ‘Les Misérables’? Our favourite film is Body Double. 
Despite its schlocky veneer, make […]

Dead Sexy: A Column on Erotic Thrillers

How do you solve a problem like Paul Schrader? 

It’s difficult to think of a director with a filmography as varied in quality as Paul Schrader’s. Having penned the […]

Some may find the sweeping chilliness of Francis Lee’s sophomore feature too bleak, but consider this critic’s cockles warmed. Saoirse Ronan and Kate Winslet are devastatingly brilliant in Ammonite, forming an […]

Thirty-six years after Stop Making Sense set the bar stratospherically high for the concert film, an unlikely duo has created an urgently joyous match. Spike Lee and David Byrne’s new venture combines the r […]

Erica Riva plays a traumatised woman drowning in the sound of her own nightmares in this De Palma-esque thriller.

The Intruder is an unnerving Argentine thriller from Natalia Meta, that sets out to explore how […]

Supernova is an elegant, elegiac story of two soulmates facing the cruelty of dementia, with director Harry Macqueen crafting a mature, affecting story of galactic proportions.

Every star in the night sky […]

When Humphrey Bogart says “We’ll always have Paris” to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, he probably didn’t anticipate a deadly global pandemic that would prevent most travel and seriously test his romantic […]