I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

It’s reassuring that there are still spaces like Alaska left in the world, untouched by retail parks and data factories. For much of the running time of Heart of the Beast, the snowy peaks and virgin ...

The British filmmaker Orlando von Einsiedel is well established having made a number of feature films and even more shorts, but it is only now with The Cycle of Love that I have come across his work.

It helps if you are a fan. Don’t Look Back in Anger, “created and written by Steven Knight,” presumes we know who Liam and Noel Gallagher are, their family background, their rise to megastardom thirty ...

Had The Last Bath obtained a release in the UK some three years ago, it would not have been all that surprising despite the fact that this Portuguese film has no international names attached that ...

The title of this belated sequel hardly inspires much confidence. Practical Magic 2 is actually adapted from Alice Hoffman’s The Book of Magic, the 2021 follow-up to the author’s Practical Magic of ...

The title of this extraordinary film might suggest that it is an adult movie in the sense that it is a highly sexual work that is essentially pornographic. However, the phrase ‘adult movie’ can also ...

It’s been nearly seven years since Shaun and his flock last grazed the big screen in 2019’s alien encounter, A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon. Since then, Shaun has adventured through the festive ...

From Backrooms to backstage, the liminal spaces of Stolen Kingdom carry an eerie nostalgia. Long gone are the park guests and the bustling activity that normally define such places. This is the ...

The real star of this film, a piece set in the suburbs of Paris in the 1980s, is the child actor Simon Boublil in the key role of 12-year-old Vincent Dayan. Although young Boublil, now fourteen, had ...

The British film producer Jeremy Thomas was almost a one-man film industry in his own right. He was a producer of over forty films and executive producer on another twenty or more. Many prominent ...

There’s a rather grim children’s verse at the heart of this new Netflix thriller: “If you leave a door half open/Soon you’ll hear the whispers spoken…”, culminating in the chilling words, “if you’re ...