With Brexit, General Elections, and political campaigning every way we turn, many turn to the solace of fiction for political respite. The question often arises, however, as to whether cinema can ever really be removed from politics. I am here to argue that yes, it can....

With an election looming, politics can feel exhausting to engage with. Daisy Lacey argues that Armando Iannucci’s BBC political satire is a timeless but alarmingly relevant ode to the bizzare times we live in....

Following the critical acclaim of their previous film, Theo and Hugo (2016), French filmmaking couple Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau have returned with the highly theatrical Don’t Look Down (2019)...

There are many lists about films that flopped as adaptations – but what about bad, or somehow unfaithful, adaptations that still made good films?...

Are some books unfilmable? Is the plot of Ulysses or Gravity’s Rainbow just too complicated for the big screen? Or can ambitious people pull off the seemingly impossible and adapt the novels that ‘shouldn’t’ be adapted...

Philip Pullman's series has got a much-needed reworking of beloved source material, and only looks to get better....

Cinema has historically relied heavily on adaptations, I have chosen some of my favourite adaptations that stray from their original source material in interesting and unusual ways...

Watching a film that is technically brilliant or excellently written can be rewarding and it can definitely be enjoyable. However, what is far rarer is a film so pure and joyous that it moves beyond these mundane aspects of production and performance and is simply a wholesome, emotional experience...