Mark Herman movies, cinema features and reviews

As the latest edition of the festival returns to the capital, Ella Kemp highlights some of this year's most essential features

A father-son tale about intergenerational trauma, Jeff Rutherford’s debut feature is visually appealing but too literary for its own good

James Purefoy completely outshines both his castmates and the script in this kitschy follow-up to the 2019 music dramedy

This heartfelt ode to life on the water from writer-director Alex Camilleri is as stoic in its execution as it is observant

An upper middle class family falls apart after they walk in on a burglary in Ronny Trocker's icy drama - but so does the film

An extraordinary first-time performance anchors a raw and mythic story of a father searching for the bodies of his murdered sons

To mark the arrival of Palm Springs on Prime Video, we highlight the cinematic time loops worth putting on repeat...

With Raya and the Last Dragon now on Disney+, Ella Kemp tackles the entire animated canon. To quote a very famous mouse: Oh, boy!

Emerald Fennell, Chloé Zhao and Regina King make history, while Netflix's Mank and The Trial of the Chicago 7 lead nominations

From Auteur Theory to Zodiac, we continue our celebration of the Mank filmmaker with an in-depth look at the man and his movies

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