Interview: Rob Savage talks Host, filming in lockdown and working with Sam Raimi

Ever since the start of the coronavirus lockdown, there has been talk of what cinema might do in response – not only in terms of reopening theatres or films released straight to digital, but also in terms of filmmaking during … Read More

Interview: Brea Grant talks 12 Hour Shift

Ahead of the FrightFest UK premiere of 12 Hour Shift, director Brea Grant talks about the heroism of nurses and being a child of the 1990s.

12 Hour Shift is a valentine to East Texas and the hospital staff … Read More

Interview: Greg Day on taking FrightFest online for the first time

This week sees FrightFest go online for the first time in its history, taking one of the UK’s biggest horror cinema events into the digital ether in the middle of a global pandemic. (You can see our guide to the … Read More

Interview: Justin Kurzel talks True History of the Kelly Gang

Justin Kurzel isn’t a man to take a project lightly – from Macbeth to Snowtown, his work is distinctive, both in terms of visuals and subject matter. It’s perhaps no surprise, then, that the Booker Prize-winning novel True History of … Read More

Interview: Elizabeth Sankey talks Romantic Comedy and forgetting the term “guilty pleasure”

This month saw the premiere of Romantic Comedy, a documentary from Elizabeth Sankey, one half of the pop duo Summer Camp. Part love letter to the genre and part video essay, it’s a fascinating and insightful tour through the humble … Read More

Interview: Robert Glenister and Celia de Wolff talk making ITV’s Isolation Stories under lockdown

As the coronavirus lockdown was instigated across the UK, writer-producer Jeff Pope – head of ITV factual drama – decided to create an immediate response to the new normal. The result was four short films under the umbrella title Isolation … Read More

Interview: Corneliu Porumboiu talks The Whistlers

Following his breakthrough feature, 2006’s 12:08 East of Bucharest, Romanian writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu has become known for veering between similarly satirical comedies, meta-textual documentaries (The Second Game, Infinite Football) and ostensibly more traditional dramas (Police, Adjective). His most recent film, … Read More

Interview: Kleber Mendonça Filho talks Bacurau, genre cinema and streaming

This weekend sees Bacurau released in UK cinemas and online by MUBI. The neo-Western thriller takes us to the titular settlement in Brazil’s remote backcountry, which is shaken by the death of its elderly matriarch. But something strange is happening … Read More

Q&A: Daisy May Cooper and Charlie Cooper talk This Country Season 3

“I think we’re all pretty much like the characters,” says Charlie Cooper of This Country. BBC Three’s hit mockumentary sitcom, which returns for its third and final season tonight (read our review here), has always succeeded because of the way … Read More

Star Trek: Picard: Boldly going to new, old frontiers

“I came here to find safety, but one is never safe from the past.” Those are the words of Jean-Luc Picard, 18 years after we last saw him in action as the captain of the USS Starship Enterprise in the … Read More