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

Interview: Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon talk Good Omens and Terry Pratchett

Good Omens airs on BBC Two at 9pm on Wednesdays. This interview was originally published in May 2019 to accompany its premiere on Amazon Prime Video.

Based on the 1990 book of the same name by Terry Pratchett and Neil … Read More

Interview: Director Benedict Andrews talks Seberg, Kristen Stewart and Amazon Studios

This weekend sees the release of a conspiracy thriller, a biopic and a civil rights drama all wrapped into one film: Seberg, a portrait of Jean Seberg at the height of her career in the late 1960s. Following the French … Read More

Interview: Dolemite Is My Name writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski

With awards season now underway, one of Netflix’s major contenders – alongside The Irishman and Marriage Story – is Dolemite Is My Name (read our review here). The comedy biopic stars Eddie Murphy as floundering comedian Rudy Ray Moore, who … Read More

Interview: I Lost My Body director Jérémy Clapin, writer Guillaume Laurant and producer Marc Du Pontavice

This weekend sees the release of one of the year’s most unusual films: the story of a severed hand setting out to reconnect with its body.

I Lost My Body, which Netflix snapped up following its best film win … Read More