The Book of Clarence is a bombastic biblical satire
Jeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
ByJeymes Samuel’s comedy is both a playful riff on the religious epic and a witty homage to sword-and-sandals films.
By Simran HansThis provocative, insightful film blows up a particular adolescent experience to better see its nuances.
By Simran HansWe think of them as a glimpse into a person’s taste, but they’re more revealing of how that person…
By Simran HansThe Swedish director of Pleasure was an anti-porn activist – until she saw how sex workers valued their “erotic…
By Simran HansThe first woman to be nominated for a Bafta for cinematography discusses the female gaze in The Power of…
By Simran HansTwo intimate, vulnerable instalments focus on the rapper's early years, but the final episode struggles to surmise his most…
By Simran HansThis 1993 film about a group of British-Indian women on holiday uses comedy to navigate themes of inherited cultural…
By Simran HansNicole Holofcener’s 2013 romantic comedy captures Gandolfini’s spirit and irrepressible charm.
By Simran HansSet in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
By Simran Hans