Cathy Brennan

This unsanitised coming-of-age tale is a disconcerting, layered dive into adolescent awkwardness.

As it is, Eiffel may offer some much needed sustenance to those starved of old-fashioned period romance, especially after Netflix’s disastrous attempt to modernise Persuasion. However, the flame between Duris and Mackey is regrettably weak in the city of light.

This moving documentary about 70-year-old trans woman Donna Personna is a missed opportunity.

David Cronenberg's new film shares its title with his second feature, made fifty-two years ago – a luridly pessimistic vision of the future made in reaction to the sexual revolution.

Documentary, if done well, can be a powerful way to peer into the lives of others and understand their experiences. In Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields, Isabelle Solas offers a compelling view of the political struggle for trans women’s rights in Argentina.
Solas achieves this through her choice of two protagonists: Claudia and Violeta. Claudia is a veteran trans activist who struggles to in...

To see the world through the eyes of a child is to gaze in innocent ignorance, brushing against invisible scars. If there is one quality that makes The Quiet Girl stand out, then it’s the way the film makes the audience see things from the perspective of nine-year-old Cáit (Catherine Clinch).

In response to the ever-increasing box office dominance of franchise films, critics often bemoan the lack of grown-up stories in American cinema. Whether that’s true or not, so long as works such as See You Then continue to be produced and seen, film will continue to be a vital medium for mature storytelling.
Set across a single evening, Mari Walker’s feature debut tells the story of two women catching up. Na...

Marvel’s new trans character is good news, but tokenism won’t fly this time

Bland action and thin characterisation make Morbius a chore to sit through – even for diehard Marvel fans

A beginner’s path through the glittering career of Danish diva Asta Nielsen – gender-bending star of the silent screen.

Film history will no doubt mark 2021 as the year of Ryusuke Hamaguchi. The director came out with not one, but two films that rank among the very best. Whereas Drive My Car centres on the sorrow of a solitary male character, Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy dwells on the lives of women in three separate stories...

Peter Dinklage brings his charisma to bear in an earnest musical take on the classic play
Peter Dinklage stars as tortured romantic hero Cyrano de Bergerac in a take on the 2018 stage musical adapted by his wife Erica Schmidt. Cyrano believes that his social position as a guard, as well as his physical appearance, automatically bar him from the affections of Roxanne (Haley Bennett). In keeping with previous iterations of the 19th century French play on which the story is based, the poetically...

2007 was a pivotal year for the aesthetics of contemporary warfare. From November, millions of gamers played a Call of Duty mission in which they controlled an AC-130 gunship through the perspective of the gunner’s distinctive monochrome camera, in which the soon-to-be blasted enemies appeared as powerless white specks. Earlier that year, a similar scene occurred in real life when two AH-64 A...

Whether playing a Christmas gift wrapper in Love Actually, or enjoying a spring break in Cannes, Rowan Atkinson is a man for all seasons. However, the British comedy star shocked MILF appreciators in 2015 when he divorced from his glamorous wife Sunetra Sastry to be with Louise Ford, a woman 28 years his junior. In his autobiography, Stephen Fry sa...

One of the surest signs of depression is when you can no longer enjoy the things that normally give you a sense of purpose. For the protagonist of Drive My Car, middle-aged actor Yūsuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), this is triggered by the discovery that his wife, Oto (Reika Kirishima), is cheating on him with a popular young actor named Kōji Takatsuki (Masaki Okad...