All articles by Lou Thomas
Alex Garland on Men, his shapeshifting rural chiller: “All folk horror owes The Wicker Man something”
The director of Ex Machina and Annihilation, Alex Garland is back with a folk horror film for the #MeToo era. We spoke to him about Green Man imagery, body-horror effects and the influence of anime.
By Lou Thomas
Sam Raimi on 20 years of the superhero era: “I think other types of movies will rise again”
By Lou Thomas
Visions du Réel 2022: despatches from Lake Geneva’s documentary festival
By Lou Thomas
Incredible But True brings a new level of silliness to the concept of time-travel
By Lou Thomas
Something in the Dirt is a beguiling meta mystery from Benson and Moorhead
By Lou Thomas
Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet: “Extreme violence doesn’t interest me. It doesn’t really provoke”
By Lou Thomas
UK films at Sundance 2022: what to look out for
By Lou Thomas
Scream: 5 essential moments from the meta slasher series
By Lou Thomas
Boiling Point: Phil Barantini on his one-take restaurant drama
By Lou Thomas
Olivia Colman on Bon Jovi, bad holidays and The Lost Daughter
By Lou Thomas
Belfast: Kenneth Branagh on an autobiographical drama “50 years in the making”
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
Nine discoveries from the 2020 Berlinale
By Ela Bittencourt, Jamie Dunn and others
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
Ken Loach on Sorry We Missed You: ‘I want to be part of the world, not somehow locked away’
By Lou Thomas
Joanna Hogg on The Souvenir: 6 visual influences
By Lou Thomas
Diego Maradona review: Asif Kapadia brings us a touch of god
By Lou Thomas