Author Stephanie Watts

At first glance, a hospital seems like an odd place to set an emotional drama. The clinical atmosphere lies in stark contrast to what might be expected of a multi-part drama about family and romantic...

When awards season rolls round, romantic comedies generally don’t get to see much of the action. Since Annie Hall won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1978, only a select few have come close: Shakespeare in...

Park Chan-wook’s newest film, The Handmaiden, adapted from Sarah Waters’ crime novel Fingersmith, follows the story quite closely, though setting the film in 1930s Korea and Japan instead of Victorian...

Ben Wheatley delves into the 1970s again with his fast-paced and thrilling new film, Free Fire. All set in and around an abandoned warehouse that is now host to gangs selling guns, Wheatley and Amy Jump...

Barry Jenkins' Moonlight explores the life of Chiron - a black gay man in a rough Miami neighbourhood - across three periods in his life. He's taken in by a well-meaning couple (played by Mahershala Ali and...

The Eagle Huntress is a documentary that is full to the brim with girl power. Narrated by Star Wars’ Daisy Ridley, the film follows Aisholpan, a 13 year old girl who is the first female to become an Eagle...

Snowden, Oliver Stone’s latest big ol’ Hollywood release, tells the story of Edward Snowden, the CIA whistleblower who released hundreds of NSA documents to the public in 2013, revealing that the American...

There’s no doubt that The Birth of a Nation is a hard watch. Nate Parker directs and stars as historical figure Nat Turner, a preacher and slave rebellion leader, beginning the film with a slow but...

Much like 2012's The Place Beyond The Pines, Derek Cianfrance’s new offering, The Light Between Oceans, is a mixture of beautiful sunset landscapes, slow fades and a well-timed soundtrack to accompany...

Planetarium is a film that leaves the audience doing a lot of guessing. Two American sisters, Laura and Kate Barlow (Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp), are working as mediums in Paris and are employed by...

Andrea Arnold is a filmmaker who stands out for a number of reasons, but her focus on social realism as a subject and style is one that stands out more than others. Before American Honey, her first American...

Paul Schrader’s new film Dog Eat Dog begins as it means to go on for the proceeding 90 minutes: a coked-up Willem Dafoe terrorises a woman and her daughter in a scene that has pretty much zero relevance to...

When reading about Clash, an account of the 2013 Egyptian riots all filmed from inside a police van, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is a gimmick film that will run out of steam quickly. But...

Welcome to By the Book, where we compare books with their cinematic adaptations. Are they faithful and delightful partners in storytelling, or are the authors turning in their graves through these unholy...

The press notes for Alex Taylor's feature debut, Spaceship, advise you to expect a Harmony Korine film set in Surrey. Going in with an aversion to Korine's desperately controversial style of cinema therefore...