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Last year’s release of Maudie, the tale of a Nova Scotia artist who suffers from crippling arthritis, looks set to cement Sally Hawkins as the master of powerful fragility. Wonderfully charming and...

While the Wachowskis have previously found success with films like The Matrix and V for Vendetta (and an arguable, if baffling, masterpiece in Cloud Atlas), Jupiter Ascending garnered lukewarm reviews at best...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm0V24IEHao Earlier this year, Neill Blomkamp – the man behind the brilliant District 9 and the criminally underrated Chappie – founded Oats Studios: an independent...

Sundance hit The Big Sick lands in UK cinemas on Friday. This relationship comedy is unconventional for at least two reasons. First, its tale of illness renders the leading lady (Zoe Kazan) comatose for a...

Doug Liman doesn’t release that many films, so you would hope that each new release would be a beautifully polished diamond of the highest quality. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always appear to be the case....

Randomly select any episode from Seasons 3 through 8 of The Simpsons and you’ll most likely be greeted with one of the best episodes of TV comedy you could ever hope to see. Randomly select any episode from...

One look and you can tell how well a society functions. It’s all about order. Are the streets clear of rubbish? Are the walls fresh with paint? People only tend to care how something looks once they’re...

https://vimeo.com/222274236 The Typist mixes dramatisations of Otto Bremerman’s 1994 historical society interview and his 1950s interviewing of gay sailors with stock footage to great effect,...

Sir Mark Rylance is currently having a bit of a moment on the international stage – and one which looks set to continue this week with the release of Christopher Nolan’s war epic Dunkirk. Until recently...

Only 10 remain of the 50 greatest blockbusters ever made. Tensions are high, you can feel the hum of excitement in the air as faint gasps cut the silence. Elsewhere, chairs yawn with the sound of bottoms...

July 21 heralds the return of Christopher Nolan. Although the eye-popping spectacle of Interstellar may still be seared onto your retinas, that film, his space-opera, came out in November 2014. Since then,...

Few directors are both as respected as auteurs and revered in the blockbuster sphere as Christopher Nolan. The British-American director, writer, and producer burst onto the scene in 1998, when he was merely...

It's nearly time for the top ten! Our ranking of the best blockbusters of all time approaches its closing stages. 20. Spider-Man 2 (2004) Probably the best onscreen iteration of Marvel’s most...

It hardly needs be said that World War II has been a cinematic goldmine pretty much since it started. A terrifyingly huge and barbarically violent industrial conflict on a scale never seen before or since, it...

With Daniel Craig looking more likely than ever to return in the next Bond film, he needs a new director to join him. Rumours have been swirling that Christopher Nolan is in the frame, so we thought it would...