John Bleasdale
24 May 2025
Gaza at the movies
In Cannes, the story of a photographer killed by an Israeli air strike and a lo-fi thriller offer different visions of tragedy and retribution in the Middle East
Read the full article23 May 2025
Ari Aster’s Eddington is not the great Covid movie we’ve been waiting for
The Hereditary director ropes Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone into a misanthropic failure of a conspiracy thriller
Read the full article21 May 2025
Could Tom Cruise’s next mission be the White House?
Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?
Read the full article14 May 2025
A continent of Hans Grubers
Why does MAGA hate Europe? Maybe they’ve just watched too many movies...
Read the full article07 May 2025
The Sorrentino blues
Is Italy’s most famous director all style and no substance?
Read the full article26 April 2025
Mussolini, Trump and me
‘When did anti-fascism become controversial?’ Director Joe Wright on the future of M: Son of the Century, his streaming series about Italy's fascist dictator
Read the full article02 April 2025
The Assessment and the mother of all battles
Set in a future where the government decides who gets to have children, The Assessment is a personal triumph for film-maker Fleur Fortuné
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