23 Oct 2020
Pixie review – silly but joyous Irish spaghetti western
Olivia Cooke shines as the enigmatic title character in this bonkers genre subversion, co-starring Alec Baldwin as a drug-dealing priest
Articles by Ella Kemp
Favourite films: Moulin Rouge!, Magnolia, Singin’ in the Rain
Favourite actors: George MacKay, James Stewart, Gena Rowlands
Favourite filmmakers: Marielle Heller, Paul Thomas Anderson, Steve McQueen
19 Oct 2020
Ammonite review – chilly and robust study of emotional labour
Writer-director Francis Lee reinvents the period romance with a cautious two-hander that emphasises struggle over sensuality
16 Oct 2020
Blackpink: Light Up the Sky review – K-pop doc is spirited but safe
K-pop megastars Blackpink - arguably the biggest girlband in the world - share a look at their meteoric rise in this empathetic profile
08 Oct 2020
Saint Maud review – sensual horror from a terrifying new talent
First-time writer-director Rose Glass comes in blazing with her debut feature, a staggering supernatural thriller with a poetic core
08 Oct 2020
Shirley review – a bewildering biopic written in blood
Josephine Decker turns her talents to the biopic for this thrillingly psychosexual portrait of horror writer Shirley Jackson
06 Oct 2020
Kajillionaire review – Miranda July finds lightning in the everyday
Part heist movie, part comedy, part love story, the writer-director's latest is a magical, unpredictable family drama like nothing else
06 Oct 2020
Every Sofia Coppola Film, Ranked
The Bling Ring or The Beguiled? With On the Rocks now in cinemas, Ella Kemp sorts through the filmmaker's sumptuous canon so far...
29 Sep 2020
Billy Elliot at 20: Still Feels Like Electricity
Stephen Daldry's low-budget drama was an unexpected box office smash, earning Oscar nominations and even spawning a musical. Two decades later, Ella Kemp looks back on the British classic
28 Sep 2020
Time review – two decades of love intercut by an unjust America
This deeply moving documentary maps the failings of the prison-industrial complex through one woman’s journey to reunite with her husband
25 Sep 2020
Lovers Rock review – this is what pleasure feels like
Steve McQueen captures the pure euphoria of the house party with this haptic, sensual portrait of one night in 80s Ladbroke Grove
23 Sep 2020
Shadow in the Cloud review – downright revolutionary feminist actioner
This thrilling and empowering debut from Roseanne Liang finally understands how women can - and should - lead the action genre
21 Sep 2020
Tesla review – playful but puzzling biopic
Ethan Hawke stars as the eccentric scientist in a biopic that refuses to play by the rules but sometimes gets lost in its own design