Ann Hui to Receive 2026 Busan Film Festival’s Camellia Award
Ann Hui, the Hong Kong New Wave pioneer whose films have chronicled the lives of her city’s ordinary and overlooked for nearly half a century, will receive the 2026 Camellia Award at the Busan International Film Festival, presented in partnership with Chanel. The 79-year-old director will accept the prize — awarded to filmmakers who have […]
Chris Evans Teases Captain America Storyline in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
There are still several months before Avengers: Doomsday arrives in theaters, but that didn’t stop Chris Evans from giving fans a little teaser. During a recent Q&A at Fan Expo Boston over the weekend, the actor, who reprises his role as Steve Rogers/Captain America in the upcoming Marvel blockbuster, said that his character’s storyline is […]
J.J. Abrams on ‘The End of Oak Street,’ Daughter Gracie’s Acting Debut
While the internet has been filled with fan theories around the new sci-fi adventure The End of Oak Street, producer J.J. Abrams is quick to cut some of them down. The film, directed by David Robert Mitchell, follows a family (led by Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor) whose suburban street is suddenly uprooted and lands […]
The Last House Star Wagner Moura Talks the Netflix Chart-Topper
When an actor delivers a breakout performance in a Netflix hit, the streamer tends to keep them in the family. The clearest example is Millie Bobby Brown, whose star-making turn on Stranger Things is now the first of six projects she’s released on the platform. Others, including Joey King, Lana Condor, and Noah Centineo, have […]
Review: Mo Gilligan’s Netflix film about fried chicken won’t make you quit meat – but it will make you think
There are very few documentaries that have changed the way I live. One of them was What the Health. The 2017 documentary, with its startling claims about the meat, dairy and food industry, inspired me to turn vegan almost overnight. It didn’t last long, but it fundamentally changed the way I thought about what ended […]
Habibi Hussein review: The true hero of Palestine’s Cinema Jenin finally gets his story told
Audiences love a feel-good story. The 2011 documentary Cinema Jenin: The Story of a Dream had good feelings in spades, featuring German activist and filmmaker Marcus Vetter stopping at nothing to revive a once-beloved cinema in a small town in the occupied West Bank and bring culture back to the dispossessed. In his years-long journey, […]
Silo season three, episode five recap: Secrets from the past change everything
Warning: this article contains spoilers After spending much of season three teasing answers, Silo finally begins to pull back the curtain in episode five. Picking up immediately after last week’s cliffhanger, the latest instalment delivers some of the series’ biggest revelations yet, from Bernard Holland’s unexpected fate to Juliette Nichols recovering memories that could change […]
Who Is Still Alive review: Gaza’s unfathomable loss told one story at a time
Every story from Gaza is a record of what no human being should experience in a just world. We can conceptualise war, bombing and mass killing in the abstract. We are inundated with images of all three. But focus on the experience of any one person and comprehension begins to fail. Who Is Still Alive, […]
Silo season three, episode six recap: Juliette makes a risky deal with The Algorithm
Warning: this article contains spoilers After last week’s revelations, Silo slows the pace slightly in episode six, but only to position its pieces for what promises to be an explosive second half of the season. Rather than delivering another series-altering twist, the latest chapter focuses on power and control. Across both timelines, characters find themselves […]
Ted Lasso season four, episode one review: Does TV’s nicest comedy still work?
When Ted Lasso had its premiere during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, it felt like exactly the kind of show we needed at the time: one that offered a generous dose of optimism, kindness and joy. Seasons two and three followed in 2021 and 2023. Now, after a three-year hiatus, following what was believed to […]