THE MOMENT is Charli xcx’s brat summer mockumentary, directed by Aidan Zamiri. I was sat in the denim reupholstered seats at Rich Mix with a large glass of red wine in my hand. I watched girls with city bags and slickback buns traipse in around me. I thought about how this was all very meme account starter pack. Then the film started and I was blasted with acid green, cyan blue titles. Charli xcx in black and white, sliding round on a transparent floor. ‘It feels like my eyes are getting jet...

There comes a time in a young pig’s life when human eyes notice his increasing dimensions and decide enough is enough – this porker is ready for the pot. So it is with the young pig featured in Amen, a graduate thesis film by students at École des Nouvelles Images.  Although he almost gets the chop, his ingenuity – not to mention a somewhat revelatory experience in the monastery’s church – will save him and his friends from sizzling.  Or will it? You had better watch the animated short below ...

I love how stupid Peacock's House of Villains is, a mix of performance and connection, mockery and mock importance that works so well.

by Nathaniel R Elle Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer in the forthcoming series MARGOT'S GOT MONEY TROUBLE Let's gently segueway now to a new year in film. When Cláudio reminded us that  Timothée Chalamet has high profile projects coming up in the wake of two consecutive years of 'close-but-no-cigar' Best Actor runs, it got me to thinking about what's next for each of this year's nominees. We're skipping anything we already covered in the  first 2026 previews we did (Dune Part Three, Digger, Th...

This week I’ve watched my first 2026 movies of the year (which is obvious, now that I think of it; […]

There are tons of books about filmmaking and filmmakers, but I have a particular appreciation for books written about just one specific movie. These microhistories (a genre I love) go deep on their film’s influences, development, production, and extended cultural relevance, and through that can tell us a lot about the power of cinema beyond […]

I was sick in bed with a cold and Claude Miller’s GARDE A VUE (1981) proved just the medicine. But I was getting a deja vu vibe which finally crystallized when I remembered PILE OU FACE (1980), directed by Robert Enrico and also co-written by dialogue wiz Michel Audiard. Both are acting duels in which […]

🍿 The End of the Tour (2015) made David Foster Wallace less handsome — with apologies to Jason Segel — but also less neurotic and more comfortable to watch. For comparison, here is an interview with the real DFW done around the same time the movie portrays, which I dare you to watch without cringing. DFW was an introspection machine, to our benefit and his own detriment, the self-destructed proof that the unexamined life is more viable.

While To Catch A Thief isn’t one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest films, it is certainly his most playful, visually beautiful and stylish. It is also one of his most underrated. His ingenious use of innuendo and subtext here is unforgettable. I love that so much of the film is light and full of comedy and... Continue Reading →

Tatsuya Yoshihara's Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, with Graham Day. At time of recording, it was ranked 234th on the list of best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2026/03/28/444-chainsaw-man-the-movie-reze-arc-234/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

Video transcript: The RSC has a new production of Henry V starring Alfred Enoch, who some of you may know from his days in Harry Potter But, he’s done a lot of stage and screen work since then, so it feels slightly mean bringing up his child role. It’s an interesting production. It blends nicely […]

Video transcript: Summerfolk at the National Theatre is a big play. It’s got a huge cast. It’s also long, nearly three hours, including an interval. It’s been adapted by Nina and Moses Raine. The language has been updated, but the costume and setting are still period. It’s plenty of wit and humour and bubbles of […]

Sometimes, children discover things about their parents that perhaps they shouldn’t have. As Oscar Wilde once said: 'Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.'  In Sophie’s case, that might be quite unlikely as she has developed the unfortunate tendency of coming across her parents at some fairly unforgivable moments . Of course, the best thing to do is to sit Sophie down and to explain what has happened in terms that a child can...

An inspired comic musical, also a juke box musical jam-packed with Céline Dion hits, Titanique continues the all too fabulous laugh parade on Broadway in a brightly polished upscaled staging.  Note: having […]

As Vampire movies go, Sinners was pretty great. No notes.

The electrifying first Broadway revival of Chess thrills with its starry cast and a new book that brings real stakes and much needed humour to its gloriously melodious score.  Infamously tricky to […]

It's one of those weird post-blockbuster weeks with a bunch of docs and a lot of random-ish stuff at Boston Common! Hey, the guy who made Why Don't You Just Die?, Kirill Sokolov, has his first English language feature, They Will Kill You. It stars Zazie Beetz as a young woman who gets a job as a housekeeper in an exclusive building, room and board included. What she doesn't know is that she's