As London’s Open House Festival offers a glimpse inside the capital’s most impressive buildings, we take a look at the modern house on film.
Happyend unfolds in a dystopian near-future where a title card informs us that systems are crumbling. It’s here, beneath a subtly Blade Runner-ish skyline and amidst intermittent earthquakes, that a ...
A stinging satire on the British film industry, a Netflix thriller that delivers the goods, and a glowing tale of ageing romance. What are you watching this weekend?
Despite its impressive cast, this portrait of surrealist artist and wartime photographer Lee Miller can at times feel a little lifeless.
Brisk genre movies made on the cheap, British ’quota quickies’ were a proving ground for talents including Michael Powell and David Lean. As a set of early Powell films arrives on Blu-ray, we went ...
There’s a hint of the supernatural in the closing scenes of Imamura Shôhei’s 1983 Palme d’Or winner, The Ballad of Narayama, a film for the most part marked by its adherence to a documentary style of ...
A 70-year-old widow in Tehran shakes up her predictable existence when she pursues a relationship with a lonely taxi driver in Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha‘s defiant tale of late-in-life ...
That time when Ealing pretended Camden was Bethnal Green... We go in search of the streets where Robert Hamer’s classic man-hunt thriller It Always Rains on Sunday was filmed.