Susan Lorincz. For many Netflix viewers, the name inspires revulsion. Lorincz is the white woman who fired a gunshot through her front door, killing her Black neighbor, Ajike Owens in 2023, invoking Florida's notorious "stand your ground" law. Geeta Gandbhir's chilling documentary about the…

Just before lockdown struck in 2020, the Best International Feature Film category was about to break wide open, with South Korea's surprise Best Picture winner Parasite bringing director Bong Joon Ho a near-unprecedented haul of four statuettes, from six nominations. The film's success was across the…

Flow winning the Best Animated Feature Oscar came as a bit of a surprise last year for a few reasons. Not only did it beat two highly grossing films—Pixar's Inside Out 2 and DreamWorks Animation's The Wild Robot—the dialogue-free film about a cat's survival in a post-apocalyptic world further proved…

When was the last time you saw a major studio release about a living movie star? In the last year, folk, rock and pop fans might have seen A Complete Unknown, with Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dylan, or Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, about the making of The Boss's "difficult" 1982 album N…

In the 12 years since they first worked together on Fruitvale Station, Ryan Coogler and Michael B. Jordan haven't missed the mark once, teaming on a series of hit films covering a broad spectrum. Since the Sundance sensation drama about the police killing of 22-year-old unarmed Bay Area man Oscar…

Chloé Zhao had no plans to read Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell's bestselling novel about Shakespeare, his wife Agnes and the tragic death of their son. Back then in fact, the director felt no particular affinity for Shakespeare, and one of Zhao's favorite anecdotes from doing Hamnet press is when she and…

There's an uncommon commotion emanating from the front row of the refurbished Town Hall across from Kings Cross railway station where Wicked's Cynthia Erivo has been discussing her book Simply More with Doctor Who and Barbie actor Ncuti Gatwa. Some in in the audience crane forward as others…

For Chase Infiniti the future truly is limitless. The 25-year-old Indianapolis native has achieved two major feats in the last two years: holding her own alongside Ruth Negga and Jake Gyllenhaal in Apple TV+'s Presumed Innocent — her first onscreen part — and then playing a key role in her first…

In All Her Fault, Sarah Snook stars as Marissa, a woman living every parent's worst nightmare. When she goes to collect her five-year-old son Milo from a playdate, she is stunned to find there was no playdate, and her son has vanished. And that's just the beginning… "When they gave me the book…

EXCLUSIVE: Tessa Thompson as Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in filmmaker Nia DaCosta's sublime Hedda is a woman in charge of her own destiny. Studying literature would've been a whole lot more fun if this voluptuous, 1950s-set re-imagining had been included on my school's curriculum. In fact…

This weekend, Ryan Coogler's genre-stretching box office smash Sinners, starring not but two Michael B. Jordans, returns to cinemas for a limited engagement, ostensibly for the creepy holiday season — but could Warner Bros. have an ulterior motive for the re-release? Although Coogler's movie debuted…

EXCLUSIVE: Jafar Panahi, director of Palme d'Or winner and France's powerful official entry for the International Oscar, It Was Just an Accident, grins when we meet on Zoom. I tell him his smile reminds me of when I offered him congratulations at the Cannes closing night soirée not long after he'd…