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Chile is not all lovely wine, productive copper mines, and functional yet attractive attacking football - in recent years its diverse, powerful and cultured arthouse cinema industry has enjoyed a strong and...

2016 was a great year of film. Honest to God, our Top 20 was the strongest it's ever been. And we're not too bad at predicting the frontrunners either. Captain America: Civil War, Everybody Wants Some!!, The...

1. La La Land and Moonlight are looking golden, me ol’ china plate The Golden Globes—Hollywood’s generous, chuckling uncle of an awards ceremony—has announced its list of favourite nieces and...

It’s a bit of a cliché to say it’s been a great year in cinema. Every year’s a great year if you’re watching the right films. What’s always certain is that every year, plenty of films don’t get...

I was talking, late last week, to a friend who works at the Independent about the impending release on these shores of Nate Parker's once-heralded The Birth of a Nation. As our general displeasure with the...

OK, so there are more than 13 things we know about the 2017 Oscar race. We know, for instance, all the usual givens such as the 0% chance of Captain America: Civil War being nominated for Best Picture, or...

https://vimeo.com/174957219 If you're going to do a short film based around the title of one of Bruce Springsteen’s best and most popular songs, you’d better do a good job. Luckily for Jim Cummings,...

1. Has Ben Affleck revealed the identity of the latest Batman villain? Yeah, probably. It sure looks like Batman has himself a new villain, and Jared Leto is nowhere to be seen. On Monday, the growl behind...

Issues of gender inequality are becoming ever more prevalent in the film industry. First there was the famous pay discrepancy highlighted by Jennifer Lawrence last year. And in recent weeks, two of our own...

1. More box office blunders: where is 2016’s elusive summer hit? Not for the first time this year we are reporting that 2016 is lacking a major summer hit. That is apart from Disney, who don't seem to be...

1. Sausage Party animators denied screen credits and forced to work unpaid overtime  Seth Rogan and Evan Goldberg's Sausage Party might have seemed a risk, but for all intents and purposes it's a risk...

Todd Solondz's debut feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse, serves up almost the very definition of black comedy. 21 years since its TIFF premiere, and on the eve of its pseudo-sequel Wiener-Dog finding UK...

Marvel Studios has a diversity problem. While I’m personally a big fan of the (admittedly sometimes formulaic) money printers that Kevin Feige and co. have masterminded over the last decade, representation...

It’s not all about Michael B. Jordan and the Wayans brothers. It is, but it isn’t. African Americans are not the only 2016 invitees cutting an impressive swathe through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts...

Sticky Notes shares its premise with Chris Kelly’s Other People, but mood and characters make it a totally different experience. Like David in Kelly’s film, Athena (Leslie) pauses her attempt to make it in...