All articles by Lou Thomas
Belfast: Kenneth Branagh on an autobiographical drama “50 years in the making”
Kenneth Branagh tells us about the genesis of his Oscars-tipped new tale of a childhood during the Troubles, which received its European premiere at this year’s festival.
By Lou Thomas
The Most Beautiful Boy in the World directors: “The film industry has a history of sad stories about child actors”
By Lou Thomas
“I love playing the rascal”: William H. Macy looks back at Fargo
By Lou Thomas
10 great American neo-noirs of the 1990s
By Lou Thomas
50 years of Get Carter: a new interview with director Mike Hodges
By Lou Thomas
Scenes from the world in 2020: Kevin Macdonald on his new Life in a Day project
By Lou Thomas
The murky world of video nasties: Prano Bailey-Bond on her gruesome retro-horror Censor
By Lou Thomas
British films at Sundance 2021: What to watch out for
By Lou Thomas
Soul’s afterlife body-swap comedy shows Pixar still has it
By Lou Thomas
Kristen Wiig: 6 essential performances
By Lou Thomas
On the phone to Werner Herzog: ‘A deep existential solitude is coming at us’
By Lou Thomas
Riz Ahmed on Mogul Mowgli: ‘It was like a Curb Your Enthusiasm moment put through a Muslim filter’
By Lou Thomas
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
By Ela Bittencourt, Jamie Dunn and others
No Hard Feelings director Faraz Shariat: ‘Racism is a tool that structures our entire society’
By Lou Thomas
Onward review: Pixar’s fantasy quest uncovers brotherly love
By Lou Thomas
British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: what to look out for
By Lou Thomas
British films at the Berlin Film Festival 2020: What to look out for
By Lou Thomas
From Kubrick to Mad Max: 8 films that influenced Birds of Prey
By Lou Thomas
From Kubrick to Mad Max: Eight films that influenced Birds of Prey
By Lou Thomas
Daniel Isn’t Real review: an enjoyably edgy psychological horror
By Lou Thomas
The Report director Scott Z. Burns: ‘In the paranoia and fear after 9/11, we lost the plot’
By Lou Thomas
Ken Loach on Sorry We Missed You: ‘I want to be part of the world, not somehow locked away’
By Lou Thomas
Ken Loach on Sorry We Missed You: ‘I want to be part of the world, not somehow locked away’
By Lou Thomas
The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Jimmie Fails on his gentrification drama
By Lou Thomas
Willem Dafoe on The Lighthouse: ‘It’s a good discipline to know how to be by yourself’
By Lou Thomas
It Chapter Two review: a pungently nostalgic pop-horror epic
By Lou Thomas
Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: 6 visual influences
By Lou Thomas