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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.

Toni Collette: ‘This film tackles the idea that it’s taboo to talk about grief’

By Hannah Woodhead

The star of Ari Aster’s Hereditary talks grief, audiobooks and why we should all go to the cinema more often.

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.

How Iceland became Hollywood’s go-to sci-fi setting

By David Jenkins

From blockbusters like Interstellar and Rogue One, as well as various homegrown productions, cinema is now a vital part of the Icelandic economy.

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.

David Gordon Green’s Halloween gets a spooky first trailer

By Hannah Woodhead

Michael Myers is back to terrorise Jamie Lee Curtis in the sequel to John Carpenter’s horror classic.

Watch the intense first trailer for Bad Times at the El Royale

By Adam Woodward

Chris Hemsworth, Dakota Johnson and Jeff Bridges star in the latest from writer/director Drew Goddard.

The best films from the Transilvania International Film Festival 2018

By Patrick Gamble

This year’s festival offered liberating explorations of identity in Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not and Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.

The eye-popping, pioneering history of 3D cinema

By Matt Turner

Whether cheap trick or clever gimmick, the use of stereoscopic techniques has constantly pushed the boundaries of the medium.

Warp Films cast local again with Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

By Hannah Clugston

The UK production company are searching for non-actors for their adaptation of the hit musical.

The Truman Show and The Rise of Unreality TV

By Leigh Singer

A new video essay offers an insightful reappraisal of Peter Weir’s eerily prophetic media satire.

Steve McQueen’s Widows gets a pulsating first trailer

By Adam Woodward

Viola Davis and Michelle Rodriguez head up an all-star cast in the director’s female-driven heist thriller.

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