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

Interview: Scott Z. Burns talks The Report

Scott Z. Burns’ The Report stars Adam Driver as former United States Senate investigator Daniel J. Jones, who, after many years of hard graft and personal sacrifice, brought the CIA’s shocking torture practices following the 9/11 attacks to light.

The … Read More

Interview: The Elephant Queen directors Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone talk the environment and Apple

This weekend saw the launch of Apple’s new streaming service, Apple TV+, and while the focus has been on sci-fi series See and news drama The Morning Show, one of the platform’s titles stands apart from the rest: wildlife documentary … Read More

Interview: François Ozon talks By the Grace of God

The latest from François Ozon, By the Grace of God is an engrossing and topical examination of the Catholic Church abuse scandal. It tells the story three men who join together to pursue justice for the abuse they suffered as … Read More

Interview: Kantemir Balagov talks Beanpole

Warning: The following paragraphs contain spoilers for the opening 20 minutes of Beanpole, which contain a sequence with harrowing content.

Beanpole, the extraordinary sophomore feature of writer-director Kantemir Balagov, earned the young filmmaker the Best Director prize in Un Certain … Read More

Interview: Bertrand Bonello talks Zombi Child, horror and streaming

Writer/director/producer/composer Bertrand Bonello is best known on these shores for The Pornographer (2001), Tiresia (2003), House of Tolerance (2011) and Nocturama (2016) – films that often deploy a certain icy distance as an alienation effect, which stimulates viewers to fill … Read More