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Weighing up Hollywood’s fixation with the War on Drugs

By Finley Crebolder

The trade in illegal drugs between Latin America and the US has been a favoured subject for mainstream filmmakers for decades.

Netflix’s Set It Up is not your average millennial rom-com

By Ella Kemp

Claire Scanlon’s Manhattan meet-cute is a bouncy comedy with plenty to say about modern relationships.

Check out this delightful footage from the set of Lady Bird

By Adam Woodward

Watch Greta Gerwig direct a young love scene between Saoirse Ronan and Lucas Hedges.

Discover the human drama of this post-apocalyptic sci-fi

By Anton Bitel

The end of the world is just the beginning in Geoff Murphy’s The Quiet Earth from 1985.

10 essential New Hollywood directors you should know

By Peter Thompson

From Mike Nichols to John Badham, these filmmakers helped to reshape the American cinema landscape.

Discover the secret ending to Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Georgina Guthrie

The unresolved conclusion to Peter Weir’s film is much more satisfying than the posthumously published final chapter.

David Lynch’s ‘Room to Dream’ is an intimate, humanising self-portrait

By Matt Thrift

This wonderful new book is the most comprehensive overview of the filmmaker’s life and career to date.

Discover the time-skipping eroticism of these classic Japanese animes

By Anton Bitel

Third Window Films are releasing two Animerama series films from Astro Boy creator Osamu Tezuka.

Watch the brand new restoration trailer for The Deer Hunter

By Adam Woodward

Michael Cimino’s searing Vietnam opus returns to cinemas this summer courtesy of Park Circus.

Mommie Dearest: The changing face of maternal horror cinema

By Leila Latif

A Quiet Place and Hereditary are the latest films to challenge idealised notions of motherhood.

Did the Olsen twins ever make a great film?

By Justine Smith

Fourteen years after Mary-Kate and Ashley stepped away from acting, we reflect on the siblings’ on-screen legacy.

Watch the first trailer for Tim Burton’s live-action Dumbo remake

By Adam Woodward

There’s thrills, spills and pink pachyderms in this early look at Disney’s latest live-action adventure.

An Arachnophobia remake is in the works courtesy of James Wan

By Finley Crebolder

The Saw, Insidious and Aquaman director is producing a new version of the cult 1990 horror-comedy.

A new study confirms that film critics are mostly white men

By Hannah Woodhead

Encouraging new voices from diverse backgrounds into a stagnant industry can only be a positive thing.

Will the FIFA World Cup affect your cinema plans this summer?

By Finley Crebolder

Film distributors are using various tactics to counteract the forthcoming football extravaganza.

Sense8’s ‘Amor Vincit Omnia’ shows the power of positivity in adversity

By Roxanne Sancto

The feature-length finale gave fans, the characters and the Wachowskis the closure they all deserved.

Fever Dreams: Two weeks in the jungle with Werner Herzog

By Callum Costello

A personal diary from a filmmaking workshop in Peru, hosted by the legendary German director.

‘What a woman will do for a good f*ck’ – Julia Cotton’s sexual agency in Hellraiser

By Kaite Welsh

All hail the lusty, bitchy antiheroine of Clive Barker’s visceral 1987 body horror.

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