Last Monday at the opening of the Cannes press conference for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, the presenter, before introducing the key actors said, “This is very much a family movie” which created a moment of silence in the room as people briefly wondered if they had seen the

By Last Caress. Hounds of Love opens on a netball match, being viewed in bullet-time slow-motion, lingering intrusively on the girls' tanned legs and short swishing netball skirts. The individual through whose eyes we are seeing this perfectly innocent after-school activity is viewing the contest from afar, sexualising every movement, savouring

By Kit Ramsey. Shot in a loose, improvisational style that makes use of current consumer-grade digital equipment, Fabienne Berthaud’s Sky (2016) is a cheap and cheerful wanderlust and love letter to new beginnings and identities that one can find in new cultures. Chronicling the tumultuous but never overwhelmingly depressing life of French

It’s safe to say expectations weren’t optimistic when Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl launched in 2003. However, it won over audiences with its fun, frothy, swashbuckling antics, a couple stellar performances and a rousing score. Then, going the way of The Matrix sequels, Gore Verbinski

I really find myself in a paradox with King Arthur. I love the story, or stories as it were. It’s full of heroism and noble righteousness, as all good medieval fantasies should be. But it also has some warped and twisted, and even sick at times, elements to it; again