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So you're a director, you've made your genre-defining debut picture, and now it's time to convince the viewing public that your film blows the other cinematic dross out of the water. But how do you prove it?...

In 2019, we weren’t exactly hurting for ‘topical’ or ‘timely’ films. From January – with The Favourite’s vision of a Britain ruled by sad and grotesque schemers – to December – with...

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,...

The long shadow cast by Paul Schrader has given us the best, and the most dreary and insulting, of modern cinema. As a writer, his neuroses combined with his deep understanding of film noir helped create a...

It’s a dangerous world out there for a film protagonist’s wife. Kidnapped, brutalised, often fridged in favour of the development of their male co-stars, it’s habitually a thankless role that comes with...

Millennials don't have it easy. From finding the ideal life partner, carving out the perfect career, buying a property and just generally, y'know, figuring out what it all means, there's a lot to consider....

You've no doubt heard the old Italian joke (well, the joke quoted in Watchmen at least) about the depressed man who, passing through a small town, decides enough is enough and he needs help. "Dottore," he...

A Dog’s Purpose tells the story of Toby, a dog with the voice of the snowman from Frozen, who dies and is reincarnated four times in an attempt to reunite with his master. That’s pretty impressive loyalty,...

History is Hollywood's best friend of late. It represents a reliable, endless supply of stories that can add innate credibility to marketing materials, and can be transformed into soaring, emotional...

Despite all of the numerous terrible things that have happened, 2016 has at least given us some truly original films. We’ve seen such leftfield ideas as a punk rock siege led by neo-Nazi Captain Picard,...

The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...

In the upcoming Nine Lives (out on 17 August), Kevin Spacey plays a man turned into a cat. It's an odd career choice given the huge star-power injection Spacey has recently received thanks to Netflix’s House...

“What happens to me if I fail your test?” What indeed. The year’s most interesting film? You’d be hard pressed to find a rival with the same scientific clout as this, Alex Garland’s directorial...

If you aren’t a fan of having sex in public places then seeing The Martian was probably the most fun you could have had in a cinema in 2015. The Martian is the story of the eponymous Mark Watney (Matt...

"If I came to you like this during the military dictatorship - what would you have done to me?" "You can't imagine what would have happened." I'll start by pointing out something fortuitous: the focus of...