Michael Haneke
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50 scary films to watch at Halloween
- Film
- October 18, 2020, 06:00
No Halloween parties. No trick-or-treating. What else is there to do but scare ourselves silly watching some terrifying films? Below you’ll find 50(...)

Koko-di Koko-da: The singing villain will haunt your dreams
- Film
- September 11, 2020, 05:00
Rabbits have lately occupied several unsettling cinematic landscapes, including Jordan Peele’s Us and Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Favourite. But these othe(...)

Life through a screen: Cinematic space and social distancing
- Film
- April 22, 2020, 05:00
An increased reliance on screens is one of the notable consequences of Covid-19 for the general population. Alongside social distancing and restrictio(...)

Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
- Film
- April 4, 2020, 05:00
In 2017 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) quite rightly recognised Curzon with an award for outstanding British contribution to (...)

The Invisible Man review: Tenser than Christmas at the in-laws’
- Film
- February 26, 2020, 05:00
It is interesting to ponder how the first third of this indecently exciting film would have played if the title had been something other than The Invi(...)

‘I like the idea of the Invasion of the Bodysnatchers’
- Film
- February 18, 2020, 06:00
Jessica Hausner is attempting to make a sound that, as she puts it, falls somewhere between juicy and cracking. It’s the chilling sound of the titular(...)

Call me a snob, but Marvel’s Black Panther is ‘less than’ Scorsese’s Raging Bull
- Culture
- October 26, 2019, 05:00
By Tuesday the wiseacres were wondering which cineaste would be the next to have a dig at Marvel? Hungarian arch-miserablist Bela Tarr? What might Aus(...)

Some Like it Hot, A Star is Born, The Wizard of Oz ... and other great remakes
- Film
- June 6, 2019, 20:18
There is still a myth abroad that the remake is always a pale copy of the original. It does little good to again point out that the most famous versio(...)

Vox Lux: A monstrous star turn from Natalie Portman
- Film
- May 3, 2019, 06:30
In the eight months since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, the second film from Brady Corbet – follow-up to his dazzlingly ambitious The Chil(...)

Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
- Film
- April 20, 2019, 05:00
Some think the French actor is ‘a bit frightening’ because of the characters she has played, most recently in Neil Jordan’s Greta. But Isabelle Hup(...)