The world of Parkour meets teenage coming-of-age angst in Petr Oukropec's In Your Dreams!, and it's a welcome mixture. Whereas most sports inherently breed comp...
The pack of documentaries in this year’s Panorama selection has thrown up an interesting pair on the Berlinale’s opening weekend. Moving from filmmaking to phot...
As it nears $400 million worldwide, Alejandro G. Iñárritu's survival drama The Revenant is also enjoying cleaning up at various awards ceremonies. The lates...
After recently clearing $2 billion at the global box-office, it's safe to say Star Wars: The Force Awakens exceeded expectations on the financial side and w...
Following in the footsteps of literature, cinema has cultivated a long and rich – and some would say tired – tradition of targeting the bourgeoisie and its mani...
The opening titles of Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary Fire at Sea state that 400,000 migrants have landed on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in the past 20 y...
It doesn't rank up there with his longest feature, but Filipino director Lav Diaz's latest film, A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery, is likely the most epic...
The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional ...
How many great filmmakers have been lost as a result of disease and human catastrophe? That seems to be the question on the mind of documentary filmmaker Aaron ...
While we're still waiting Sony Pictures Classics to give a U.S. release to Hirokazu Kore-eda's last film, Our Little Sister (review here), he's already fini...
