A meditation on the consequences of grief, All Of Us Strangers is a time-slipping, supernatural drama like you’ve never seen before. Words: Beth Bennett Adapted from the 1987 Japanese novel by Taichi Yamada, Andrew Haigh transposes the Tokyo-set story into contemporary London, using the concept to explore the sanctity of childhood love, loss, and desperation over the more dark excavations that the novel takes. In All Of Us Strangers, we meet Adam (Andrew Scott), a gay man on

Yorgos Lanthimos unveils a whole new world in this luxurious, horny, and hedonistic telling of Alasdair’s Gray’s 1992 novel. Words: Beth Bennett Adapted by frequent collaborator Tony McNamara (who also penned Lanthimos’ previous outing The Favourite which saw Olivia Colman clinch an Academy Award), Poor Things is Lanthimos at his most lurid and maximalist. Poor Things is a pseudo-Frankenstein tale of troubled anatomist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe) who crafts Bella Baxter

Molly Manning Walker’s evocative, neon-clad debut no doubt treads familiar ground for countless adults in the United Kingdom as it brings to life the post-exam mates holiday many adventured on as a somewhat rite of passage as teenagers. Words: Beth Bennett Beaches, booze, and blazing hormones, these holidays are made up of the kind of stories you’ll never forget. However, what Manning Walker’s How To Have Sex demonstrates is, alongside that unforgettable party, how these teen

Todd Haynes brings to life Samy Burch’s acerbic tale of an actress preparing for — what she hopes to be — the role of a lifetime in a scandalous biopic about an illicit romance that gripped the tabloids decades earlier. Natalie Portman plays the enigmatic and venomous Elizabeth who arrives in Savannah Georgia to begin her research into the true life of the infamous local celebrity, wife, and mother Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore). However, as the politely tactful melodra

On an insignificant day, small and simple Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is being ignored by his best friend, the lonely, quiet Colm (Brendan Gleeson). It feels as if they’re caught in a fight that Pádraic is unaware of. Soon, however, he discovers that his best friend, well, no longer wants to be his friend anymore. This incites an elegantly simple but intriguing tale of nihilism, legacy, bloody extremes, and unfortunate donkeys. Words: Beth. Bennett Helmed as the Babe of Venice,

In magic, a trick is split into three acts: The Pledge, The Turn, and The Prestige. This knowledge hit the mainstream in Christopher Nolan’s 2009 thriller, The Prestige, which details Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman’s turn as illusionists who compete in a spirally one-upmanship to achieve total infamy. The Pledge, the first part, is when a magician will show you something relatively ordinary, innocuous. This is followed by The Turn, when this ordinary subject is made extraord

Mary Woodvine haunts the Cornish Coast in this enigmatic and enthralling film from BAFTA-winning Filmmaker Mark Jenkin. Words: Beth Bennett Mark Jenkin submerged the world in his rugged, rough debut Bait back in 2019, securing him the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut from a Writer, Director, or Producer. Bait is a bold feature, one that introduced Jenkin as a sort of experimentalist with a raw expressionistic approach to aesthetic and drama. Shot on 16mm film and developed by ha