Dir: Alex Cox | US Western 88’ 2025 Alex Cox rides into the sunset with a decidedly crooked take on the American West in Dead Souls, a mischievous, politically charged Western...

Dir/Wri: Richard Hawkins | UK Drama 102’ 2025 There are few more bizarre British propositions than the idea that, in the middle of the Second World War, the authorities might decide...

Katharine Round | Uk Fantasy drama 64’ Ghost Town is a hauntingly offbeat road movie that turns a taxi into a confessional on wheels, traversing a Japanese coastal town where the...

Few filmmakers have reinvented the language of cinema as radically as Artavazd Pelechian. Artavazd Pelechian (February 22, 1938-) is a renowned Armenian-Soviet filmmaker and theorist famous for creating the "distance montage"...

I Play Rocky: The underdog takes on Hollywood Peter Farrelly’s crowd-pleasing account of how Sylvester Stallone fought to become Rocky Balboa opens Cairo’s 47th International Film Festival. There is a plucky irony...

Dir: Robert Aldrich | US Psychological Drama 107’ Robert Aldrich takes what initially appears to be a conventional melodrama and steers it into considerably darker psychological territory, with Joan Crawford playing...

Dir: Andrew Haigh | Drama 117’ 2026 A Long Winter certainly lives up to its title, unfolding at a pace that feels drawn out in contrast to the abrupt and brutal...

Dir: Mariko Minoguchi | Adventure thriller 2026 The Other Side (Die andere Seite) takes the familiar nightmare of a deadly pandemic and turns it inside out. Rather than following the healthy...

Austria’s Uncomfortable Cinema: The 1990s on Film For much of the 20th century, Austria had cultivated an image of itself as Europe’s gracious, cultured middle ground: Vienna, waltzes, coffee houses, imperial...