Interviews

You might want to consider bringing a bottle of water with you when you catch the new film Limbo. Set deep in the Australian outback, in the opal mining town of Coober Pedy, this gritty ‘noirish’ crime drama can practically make you taste the dust that seems to encase this rural, underprivileged community.

What would you do if four strangers came to your secluded cabin in the woods and asked you to kill one of your family members to prevent the apocalypse? This is the question at the heart of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest psychological horror film Knock at the Cabin, with Nigerian-born British actress Nikki Amuka-Bird playing one of four strangers.

There is a moment in Holy Spider (2022) when a serial killer (played by Mehdi Bajestani) holds tightly the throat of a reporter Rahimi (Zar Amir Ebrahimi) who posed as a prostitute to catch him. The murderer of 16 Iranian women yells at her, “Who are you?” The female character responds, “I am Zar!,” thus breaking the so-called fourth wall with the public and indicating that, for a moment, she is not a fictional character but herself as a woman.

The most optimistic hope attached to social media and, before its existence, the antecedent of pervasive cable news coverage, was that a smaller world might breed more empathetic connections. Seeing and communicating more directly with other people all across the globe could create peace.

While recently promoting his latest movie, the screenlife thriller Missing, Ken Leung shared how, when he was cast in his first major film, the 1998 blockbuster Rush Hour, he told its director Brett Ratner that he wanted to treat the part as if he’ll never be in a film again.   The 53-year-old actor meant it as a reminder to himself.

Tia Kouvo is a Finnish director and screenwriter based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her directorial feature, Family Time, follows an annual family Christmas get-together that sees the usual tensions rise when family members try to find connection, but aren’t always successful.

RRR is a modern-day mythological drama. It’s a tale of two friends whose lives take different paths and they become enemies.

The documentary Invisible Beauty tells the story of Bethann Hardison, a fashion revolutionary who has been on the front lines of racial justice in her industry for over five decades. Through her life journey as a pioneering Black model, modeling agent and activist, the film explores race, beauty, and representation.

A young man is interrogated by the father of his lover, who has disappeared without a trace during the couple’s trip to a secluded island. This is the premise of Danish director Martin Skovbjerg’s feature film Copenhagen Does Not Exist.

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is a dark stop-motion musical adaptation of Carlo Collodi’s “The Adventures of Pinocchio”. The book was published in 1882.