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Concrete Cowboy stars Idris Elba and Stranger Things’ Caleb McLaughlin as an estranged father and son whose fraught reunion takes place in Philadelphia’s underground horse-riding scene. This setting –...

Patrick deWitt’s 2011 novel The Sisters Brothers is very funny. Jacques Audiard’s new film adaptation of that novel is significantly less funny. Despite (or really, because of) this, the film is a great...

On a dark stormy night in 1818, a teenage girl wrote one of the most influential pieces of fiction in history. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has always appealed to movie makers – what better source...

1. And you thought awards season was over... In this week’s edition of Kids Say The Downright-Unbelievableist Things, the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards winners were announced on Saturday night—well...

This summer the film world was temporarily rocked by, of all things, a new Ghostbusters film. For many people it was a long overdue win for better representation in film, and a chance to see that rarest of...

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.” - Ignatius J. Reilly If Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of A Confederacy Of Dunces, is even halfway correct in his...

For decades now there has been an increasing symbiosis between TV and film. In the past there was a strong temptation to go bigger, and adapt a show for the big screen to reach a wider audience, condensing...

There’s an odd phenomenon in Hollywood, which we're going to call the 'two-year bestseller delay'. Due to the trappings of production and the time it takes to actually produce a film, 2014 in novels is 2016...

Before it was possible to potter off to the cinema for some entertainment, stories were told on the stage. And with so many classic pieces of drama continuing to be reproduced over hundreds of years, when...

Explaining what happens in Cloud Atlas is surprisingly simple. Explaining why it deserves to be loved and admired is a little harder. The story (based on a novel by David Mitchell) is in fact six separate...

Starlet of the 71st Academy Awards in 1999, Shakespeare in Love is a film that offers comedy, heartfelt sincerity and some brilliant performances. Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman’s script leaps off the screen...

Hey! Listen! Here’s an uncontroversial opinion: films based on video games are bad. A less uncontroversial opinion - but still a surprisingly rare one - this will change. soon. Roughly each year for the...