Andrew Kendall

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark,” Marcellus tells Horatio early in William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”.

Bong Joon Ho’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning film “Parasite” is a welcome reminder that Bong’s features (especially those in English – preceded by “Okja” and “Snowpiercer”) have always been excited to stretch and expand the limits of their genre as much as possible.

Director Osgood Perkins’ last feature, 2024’s horror-mystery “Longlegs”, benefitted from an excellent ad campaign identifying it as one of the scariest contemporary films.

The 97th Academy Awards ceremony, closing out the 2024 awards season a few weeks before the beginning of spring, is set for this evening.

As the 2024 awards season ends tonight with the Oscars, this is the perfect opportunity to look at the last year in film.

The newly released entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Captain America: Brave New World”, is Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson’s first film as Captain America.

“The Ficus Religiosa is a tree with an unusual life cycle.

The new film “Companion”, which announces itself as part of the romantic horror genre, opens with voiceover narration that announces the fate of one of the main characters.

The press tour for the female buddy comedy “One of Them Days” has blessed the internet with several clips of interviews with its stars, Keke Palmer and SZA, and its producer, Issa Rae.

Rich Peppiatt’s Irish comedy “Kneecap” opens with Liam Óg Ó Hannaidh impishly narrating a sequence that immediately establishes the brash comedy that will be central to the antics of the film to come.

The peaks and valleys in Jacques Audiard’s latest film, the musical “Emilia Pérez” never come where you might expect them.

It is important to remember that “The Lion King” is a loose adaptation of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”.

There are many raised voices through the middle and final sections of Sean Baker’s latest comedy-film, “Anora”.

One of the more surprising things about “Babygirl”, the upcoming erotic thriller from Halina Reijn, is how often it resists making its characters symbols or avatars for ‘very important discussions’.

Fans of horror and the supernatural will have much to celebrate on Christmas Day when Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” premieres in cinemas.

It has been a long road to the screen for the musical.

In late September, a newly released trailer for “Gladiator II” featured a line of dialogue that revealed a significant piece of information that seemed like a spoiler for the (at the time) upcoming film.

Many Christmas films have revolved around a recurring concept: “What if Santa Claus were real?”

British screenwriter Kelly Marcel makes her directorial debut with “Venom: The Last Dance”, the third film in the “Venom” series in six years.

JT Mollner’s thriller “Strange Darling” feels shorter than 96 minutes. It breezes through its six chapters (and epilogue) with an impish excitement, teasingly daring audiences to guess what new twist might be waiting in store.