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What seems to be a somewhat controversial age-gap romance quickly becomes something much more sinister in Rhys Marc Jones’ Black Church Bay.

Writer/director Andrew Haigh heads to the Colorado mountains with his new film A Long Winter adapted from the short story of the same name by Colm Toibin.

Lee Chang-Dong is back with another complex character study in Possible Love whose serious topics are captured with clarity by its all-star cast.

Beth De Araujo’s Josephine explores the life-changing impact of childhood trauma on both the child itself and the parents trying to support them through it.

Acclaimed director and animator Brad Bird shares stories of his career, and build excitement for his new film Ray Gunn.

Hope, the latest from Korean director Na Hong-jin, is an action-packed, gory, riotously funny, larger-than-life blockbuster.

With hits like Derry Girls (2018) on TV and Kneecap (2024) in cinemas, there has been a cinematic spotlight on The Troubles in recent years. This media has allowed Irish storytellers to depict that…

Infused with the youthful radiance of its cast and director, Sunny Dancer is the kind of coming-of-age film that the world needs right now.

As The Odyssey takes the world by storm, many eyes have turned to a film adaptation of Homer’s other Epic Poem, The Iliad: Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy.

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose sounds like a Knives Out Mystery, but it’s darker, slower and drier.

While the Martin Scorsese is best known for gangster epics, tucked away in his early filmography is this quietly powerful feminist drama.

Satyajit Ray is often regarded as one of the greats, and certainly as one of the masters of Indian cinema. The Bengali filmmaker was known for his authentic slice of life pictures…

War-time Argentina forms the backdrop of Charles Vidor’s sensual and paranoid melodrama hidden under the guise of film noir in Gilda, which has found its way into the Criterion Collection.

A surprisingly tender love story is wrapped in a Yakuza drama in The Last Blossom, the new animation from Baku Kinoshita and Kazuya Konomoto that is well worth your time.

If there’s anything us Brits are particularly good at, gritty crime dramas are fairly high on the list. That continues to be true with the upcoming release of Cal McMau’s debut feature, Wasteman. S…

Household name characters, a classic sci-fi plot, and the Looney Tunes laughs we all know and love, burst onto the big screen  ★★★☆☆ It seems near impossible to believe that it’s taken until now to have a theatrical, feature-length Looney Tunes animation, but the time has finally arrived. The Day The Earth Blew Up, a […]

Edward Yang's final and perhaps best-known feature, Yi Yi, receives a 4K restoration as part of the Criterion Collection.

Almost three decades since it made Paul Thomas Anderson's name, his debut feature Boogie Nights receives a 4K release from Warner Bros.

As 2026 looms, The Indiependent's film writers share which films they're most looking forward to in the year to come.

The talented writers of FILMHOUNDS choose their favourite scenes from 2025 films and dive into why they are so darned good. Spoilers ahead.