Features Archives: 03/2025

The 10 most pointless director's cuts in cinema history

The 10 most pointless director’s cuts in cinema history

Some things are better off left alone.

Mar 15, 2025

Oscars - Academy Awards - Academy Award - Trophy - 2025

Why that $18 million ‘Anora’ Oscars campaign isn’t as big of a deal as you might think

The campaign ecosystem has changed.

Mar 15, 2025

Director Emma Rice on adapting Alfred Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' for the stage- I love the impossibility of it - 2025

Director Emma Rice on adapting Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘North by Northwest’ for the stage: “I love the impossibility of it”

She even managed to untangle the plot.

Mar 15, 2025

Oscars - Academy Awards - Academy Award - Trophy - 2025

The award for ‘Best Ripoff’ goes to: five Oscar-winning movies that were sued for plagiarism

Sour grapes, or stealing ideas?

Mar 15, 2025

Ali Abbasi and the danger of performative allyship in Hollywood - Opinion - 2025

Ali Abbasi and the danger of performative allyship in Hollywood

Hollywood’s blatant hypocrisy.

Emily Ruuskanen

Mar 15, 2025

Helen Mirren's dated perspective on female audiences- It's not the world of art

Helen Mirren’s dated perspective on female audiences: “It’s not the world of art”

A dated opinion.

Emily Ruuskanen

Mar 15, 2025

'Banda Yeh Bindaas Hai'- the unreleased Indian remake of 'My Cousin Vinny'

‘My Cousin Vinny’: subverting the elitism of the courtroom drama through comedy

The courtroom drama to end all courtroom dramas.

Emily Ruuskanen

Mar 15, 2025

'Be Pretty and Shut Up!'- Delphine Seyrig's explosive and vital documentary

‘Be Pretty and Shut Up!’: Delphine Seyrig’s explosive and vital documentary

Essential viewing.

Emily Ruuskanen

Mar 15, 2025

Baby Face - 1933 - Movie

‘Baby Face’: Unpacking the moral message of the controversial pre-code drama

A different era of Hollywood.

Mar 14, 2025

The 10 best film soundtracks of the 2000s

The 10 best film soundtracks of the 2000s

A great decade for film.

Mar 13, 2025

Britain's collective nervous breakdown- Rupert Russell on 'The Last Sacrifice,' folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired 'The Wicker Man...

“Britain’s collective nervous breakdown”: Rupert Russell on ‘The Last Sacrifice’, folk horror, and the real-life murder that inspired ‘The Wicker Man’

This isn’t the story of one murder – it’s the story of a nation in crisis.

Mar 13, 2025

Robert Pattinson - Benny Safdie - Good Time - Safdie Brothers

The five best movies where everything goes wrong

A stressful ride.

Emily Ruuskanen

Mar 12, 2025