2026 Cannes Film Festival

James Morton 25 May 2026

What if Freaky Friday, but for adults, and considerably more unsettling? That's roughly the pitch of The Unknown, adapted from...

James Morton 25 May 2026

A film with a three-hour and sixteen-minute runtime is a significant ask of any audience. Albeit, a lot of mainstream...

Juliette Howard 25 May 2026

Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan exude pious stoicism in Cristian Mungiu’s highly anticipated (and now Palme D'Or winner) Fjord, a...

James Morton 25 May 2026

It's been nine years since Andrei Zvyagintsev's last film, Loveless. In that time, he's been sorely missed from the cinemasphere,...

Clotilde Chinnici 21 May 2026

At the beginning of The Beloved, Esteban Martinez (Javier Bardem) has just returned to Spain to direct his newest feature...

James Morton 20 May 2026

Coming-of-age stories are ten-a-penny for independent cinema, and the genre has produced enough sensitive teenagers staring out of car windows...

James Morton 20 May 2026

Movies about male friendship are particularly rare, especially working-class ones. In I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, director Clio Barnard...

James Morton 20 May 2026

Ever get the feeling a director just isn’t for you? Watching Her Private Hell, Nicholas Winding Refn’s first film since...

Ros Tibbs 19 May 2026

Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish filmmaker behind Drive and Only God Forgives, has revealed the DC character he would love to bring to...

James Morton 19 May 2026

Jim Queen (or Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer, to give it its full title) is a total riot....

Clotilde Chinnici 19 May 2026

“Let there be wealth without tears; enough for the wise man who will ask no further” is a quote from...

Ros Tibbs 18 May 2026

Carol star Cate Blanchett has attended the 2026 Cannes Film Festival to reveal her casting in Brady Corbet's upcoming film...

Ros Tibbs 18 May 2026

The 2026 Cannes Film Festival has unveiled another horror release with South Korea's Na Hong-jin's upcoming cosmic horror film Hope,...

James Morton 18 May 2026

Films written, directed by and starring the same person tend to fall into two camps: horribly mediocre, or worse. Then...