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On Truth & Movies this week, we discuss Mark Jenkin’s Rose Of Nevada and David Lowery’s Mother Mary. For Film Club, we revisit Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux. Joining host Leila Latif are Hannah Strong and Rafa Sales Ross. Truth & Movies is the podcast from the film experts at Little White Lies, where along with…

Hauntings have been a presence throughout David Lowery’s artistic output – naturally in his 2017 breakout A Ghost Story, but even before that in Ain’t Them Bodies Saints and Pete’s Dragon. The same goes for The Green Knight and even his lacklustre take on Peter Pan, Wendy and Peter. Spirits and spectres, literal and metaphorical, are the…

Jaafar Jackson as the titular character in a scene from ‘Michael’ (Photo: Lionsgate Films, 2026). There’s a moment about five seconds into Michael when the artist’s familiar “hee-hee” blares and the Michael Jackson Estate logo flashes on screen. It’s a small thing, but it tells you a lot. Before the film even begins, it quietly…

Although the settings and specific genre trappings vary, time-loop films are generally united by the theme of bettering oneself in order to improve your circumstances or alter your perspective on life going forward, should you ever escape the fantastical situation that’s causing you to repeat the same week, day or even two-minute period over and…

While there is a significant reliance on found footage, the filmmakers use scrappy technology like iPhones, Nintendo DSes, webcams and screen recording to realize their vision. The resulting images are charmingly lo-fi, corroded by blur, grain, reflections and refractions. This interplay of light is most evident in the shots of screens-within-screens – post-net artists’ most distinctive…

In 2024, Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s Les Distractions de Dagobert sold at Sotheby’s for £22.5 million, making her the highest-selling British female artist in history. The painting is mystical, chaotic and reflective of Carrington’s own incredible life story, which would undoubtedly provide ripe material for a live-action adaptation. It’s a shame, then, that this feature film from writer-directors…

The devil is in the details for Mark Jenkin. His DIY approach to cinema is consistent across many short films, his breakout feature Bait, its follow-up Enys Men and his new film, the absurd and melancholy, George MacKay and Callum Turner-starring, Cornish time-travel yarn Rose of Nevada. Jenkin is his own cameraman, shooting on a hand-cranked…

I’ve always been amused by sports-themed movies and TV series that exist in a parallel universe with fictional teams, e.g., the New York Knights in “The Natural,”  the Miami Sharks in “Any Given Sunday,” and AFC Richmond in “Ted Lasso.” In the breezy and endearing Netflix series “Running Point,” the professional basketball league is known…

Yes, on the one hand, even doing an animated spin-off of Netflix’s pop culture juggernaut “Stranger Things” feels a bit like a cash grab, but cartoon installments in hit franchises, especially those with young audiences, are common across the TV landscape. It’s not just trying to squeeze as much as possible out of an aging…

The consistently impressive DOC10 technically starts next weekend, but there’s a build-up to it that begins tomorrow, April 24th, with a series called “Speak Truth,” which the fest says, “Brings together powerful films, thought-provoking conversations, and dynamic civic dialogue exploring the most urgent issues of our time.” Some of the best documentaries of the last…