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A fter years of increasingly wayward sequels and spinoffs, F9 got the Fast and Furious franchise back on solid asphalt with a renewed focus on the character dynamics …

S even years after her hormone-infused directorial debut The Edge of Seventeen, Kelly Fremon Craig returns to the big screen with her adaptation of Judy Blume’s Are Yo…

T his year marks a decade since Noah Baumbach ’s Frances Ha danced her way into UK cinemas. Co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig , the film follows aspiring dancer…

S et over the course of a summer’s working day in a fig orchard in rural Tunisia, Erige Sehiri’s pastoral fiction debut follows a group of seasonal labourers in a para…

I n preparation for an English class module on classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby, I sat down and watched the 2013 film adaptation of the novel directe…

A midst a sea of compilations with titles such as “Regina George being iconic for 3 minutes,” there’s one specific moment from Mean Girls I find myself returning to wa…

S ometimes, I wish there had been a tiny camera attached to the side of my head. If there was then I wouldn’t need to struggle with the fickle nature of memory, I coul…

E xciting news for UK cinemagoers: Picturehouse Cinemas have joined MUBI GO’s ever-expanding network of partner venues across. For the uninitiated, a subscription to M…

A s ’70s Hollywood sci-fi spectaculars Soylent Green and Logan’s Run suggested, the very idea that a society might deal with its population challenges by eliminating t…

C hristophe Gans’ Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le pacte des loups) is a fantasy adventure set in a history within a history. The framing narrative that bookends its action…

A t the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, in the wake of the #MeToo movement, filmmaker Nina Menkes gave a presentation entitled, ‘Sex and Power, The Visual Language of Oppre…