By Tom Bond
Werner Herzog delves into the strange world of a Japanese agency which specialises in artifice.
By Tom Bond
Pete Mackie Burns' first rate follow-up to Daphne explores the repressed homosexuality of a shy dock worker.
By Tom Bond
Ferrara digs deep into his personal life to deliver a moving character study starring Willem Dafoe.
By Tom Bond
Werner Herzog takes a sideways look at modern romance through the lens of Japan’s performance industry.
By Tom Bond
Juliette Binoche and Guillaume Canet ponder middle-age and the changing facing of book publishing in Olivier Assayas’ intellectual drama.
By Tom Bond
In BlacKkKlansman, the director dramatises real-life events in order to make his point.
By Tom Bond
From Network to Nightcrawler, cinema has a long history of exposing television’s rotten core.
By Tom Bond
Both of Damien Chazelle’s films are structured around the twin pursuits of art and romance.
By Tom Bond
Twenty years ago Baz Luhrmann put a vital contemporary spin on this timeless romantic epic.
By Tom Bond
Roger Corman’s unreleased 1994 film The Fantastic Four was doomed from the start.
By Tom Bond
Rob Reiner’s touching drama sees four friends say goodbye to the safety and stability of childhood.
By Tom Bond
The prospect of Brie Larson as Captain Marvel is cause for celebration and concern.
By Tom Bond
Streaming services are supplying quantity and quality to a rapidly growing global audience. Can cinema keep up?
By Tom Bond
Miguel Gomes, Jacques Audiard and others are capturing a shifting continental mood.
By Tom Bond
It’s become increasingly rare for films like Batman V Supeman: Dawn of Justice to live up to expectations.
By Tom Bond
Ten years ago Sacha Baron Cohen unleashed an outrageous and shocking creation – and we’re not just talking about the mankini.
By Tom Bond
Brad Bird’s soaring 1999 animated feature taught us that true heroism is much more than quips and spandex.
By Tom Bond
Actress and director Lee Grant reflects on living through the darkest period in Hollywood’s history.
By Tom Bond
Leonardo DiCaprio’s tortured turn in The Revenant reminded us of another even more astonishing showing from an A-list star.
By Tom Bond
A life-long Star Wars fan sings the praises of the much-maligned third episode in George Lucas’ epic space saga.
By Tom Bond
From a Yoda look-alike to the Death Star designer, meet the talented artists who helped realise George Lucas’ vision.