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The How to Train Your Dragon movies are far and away the best work DreamWorks Animation have ever produced. For one thing, they’re simply gorgeous to look at, bursting with vibrantly designed creatures and...

10 years ago, Bradley Cooper may as well have been nobody. Then he starred in The Hangover. Then... uh... The Hangover 2. But six brief years since his "serious film" breakout Silver Linings Playbook, the...

Roughly a third of the way through Colette, currently in UK cinemas, Keira Knightley’s titular author muses that ‘the hand that holds the pen writes history.’ This line – featured prominently in the...

With the upcoming releases of both Stan & Ollie and Beautiful Boy, starring funnymen Steves Coogan and Carell respectively, it felt as good a time as any to shine the light on a selection of other...

It is the beginning of Pride and Prejudice. The protagonist, Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley), is reading a book as she walks through the English countryside. The house comes alive not because it’s been...

Stan & Ollie – a lovingly constructed biopic of an ageing Laurel and Hardy – hits cinemas this week. To celebrate, One Room with a View’s Naomi, Louise, and Tom have come together to argue the merits...

https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/304823620 Within the arena of the short film some filmmakers – perhaps free from large budgets and plot conventions – find the comfort to be more expressive and...

Jeff Malmberg’s 2010 film Marwencol should be far more available than it is. The DVD is strangely hard to come by, at least in the UK, while digital copies can be rented or purchased from iTunes, but not...

In 2015, one of the great chapters of British comedy closed. The ninth series of Peep Show finished on a high and a low, keeping David Mitchell and Robert Webb’s Mark and Jeremy in the same bleak,...

Phantom Thread eludes being pinned down, with beguiling mastery. From the word go, you are never quite sure where it is heading, or exactly what sort of film you are watching, but – much like leading lady...

Even nearly 12 months after its initial UK release, Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water has lost none of its magic. The film not only captured the hearts of critics, but also of cinemagoers worldwide,...

What really separated You Were Never Really Here from other thrillers in 2018 – more so, even, than its impressionistic style and sparse dialogue – was its complete lack of hero. Lynne Ramsay’s fourth...

There’s a line in a song I think about a lot. I think it might be true. You can change your clothes/ Change your hairstyle, your friends, cities, continents/ But sooner or later your own self will always...

After a somewhat turbulent development period, culminating in Paramount Pictures deeming it too much of a box-office risk for real cinemas outside of North America, the dizzingly cerebral Annihilation finally...

CUT TO: Int. a nondescript seminar room in a middling-to-good university. The class: Screenwriting 101. The lesson: Show, don’t tell. It’s the simple but powerful lesson that all new writers are...