To a Land Unknown (2024)Director: Mahdi FleifelScreenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa, Mahdi Fleifel, Jason McColganStarring: Angeliki Papoulia, Mahmood Bakri, Mohammad Ghassan At the world premiere of To a Land Unknown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024, director Mahdi Fleifel expressed disbelief that the film had reached such a prestigious stage so quickly. Shot in Greece and … Read more

Anora (2024)Director: Sean BakerScreenwriter: Sean BakerStarring: Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yuriy Borisov, Karren Kragulian, Vache Tovmaysan When Sean Baker’s Anora unexpectedly won the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, the announcement sparked widespread applause. The film’s victory surprised many festivalgoers who had expected other contenders to prevail, but Anora had already captured attention … Read more

The Imaginary (2023)Director: Yoshiyuki MomoseScreenwriter: Yoshiaki NishimuraStarring: Kokoro Terada, Rio Suzuki, Sakura Ando, Riisa Naka, Takayuki Yamada, Atsuko Takahata, Issei Ogata The Imaginary tells the poignant story of Rudger, an imaginary friend voiced by Kokoro Terada, who faces erasure when his real-life companion, Amanda (Rio Suzuki), falls into a coma after a tragic accident. Separated … Read more

Director, actor, and writer Vittorio De Sica remains one of the most influential figures in the history of Italian cinema. His work as a filmmaker reshaped narrative realism on screen, and his performances established him as a celebrated actor across several decades. Born in 1901 in Sora, then part of the Kingdom of Italy, De … Read more

Anatomy of a Murder (1959)Director: Otto PremingerScreenwriter: Wendell MayesStarring: James Stewart, Lee Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Kathryn Grant, Brooks West, Orson Bean, Murray Hamilton, Joseph N. Welch Courtroom dramas have a unique ability to generate tension and keep viewers on edge. The shouted “Objection!” or a quiet, devastating turn of phrase … Read more

Spider-Man 2 (2004) was a cultural landmark that helped redefine the modern superhero film and quickly became a beloved classic. Featuring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Alfred Molina, director Sam Raimi and his creative team brought Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s grounded, colourful hero back to the big screen with care and conviction. Even amid … Read more

The drive for revenge can transform ordinary people into their most intense, vulnerable, and sometimes violent selves. This theme has fueled storytelling across cultures and eras — from ancient myths and religious texts to Shakespeare and contemporary cinema. In many beloved action films, revenge becomes the engine that compels characters to heal past wounds by … Read more

Kinds of Kindness (2024)Director: Yorgos LanthimosScreenwriters: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis FilippouStarring: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Mamoudou Athie, Yorgos Stefanakos Only months after the release of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another bold and unsettling film. At first glance the rapid turnaround might suggest a lesser effort, but the creative … Read more

Sister Wives (2024)Director: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamScreenwriter: Louisa Connolly-BurnhamStarring: Louisa Connolly-Burnham, Mia McKenna-Bruce, Michael Fox Sister Wives opens a quiet, intense window into a tightly controlled world. Set in Utah in 2003, the short film uses period detail — a character playing Snake on an old Nokia phone, for example — not as a gimmick but as … Read more

Once seen or heard, never forgotten. A rare few performers become indelibly associated with a single glance or a single line, and Peter Lorre was one of the finest. A distinctive and singular presence in cinema, he moved from German theatre and film to the English-speaking stage and screen in the early 1930s and became … Read more