All articles by Lou Thomas
6 films to see to get ready for Tenet
Melt your brain and quicken your pulse with these amuse-bouches for Christopher Nolan’s feverishly anticipated new head-scrambler Tenet.
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
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
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: six visual influences
By Lou Thomas
Katie Puckrik on The Word: ‘The show is responsible for the 90s’
By Lou Thomas
Vita & Virginia: ‘Just because something is set in 1928, it doesn’t need to feel like it was made then’
By Lou Thomas
The Flood director Anthony Woodley: ‘Refugees are entrepreneurs – they’re trying for a better life’
By Lou Thomas
X-Men: Dark Phoenix: five influences on the final mutant blockbuster
By Lou Thomas
Shooting Stanley Kubrick: how we took photos of the great director
By Lou Thomas
Diego Maradona review: Asif Kapadia brings us a touch of god
By Lou Thomas
Five great scenes with Peter Mayhew as Star Wars’ Chewbacca
By Lou Thomas
Wild Rose: director Tom Harper on his Glasgow country music saga
By Lou Thomas
Five reasons to watch cyberpunk body-horror Tetsuo: The Iron Man – 30th anniversary
By Lou Thomas
Marielle Heller on Can You Ever Forgive Me? – ‘I love that this movie’s bringing up people’s love for Withnail’
By Lou Thomas
Chiwetel Ejiofor: The story behind my first feature
By Lou Thomas
A Private War director on Marie Colvin: ‘I empathise with that perverse desire to go to conflict zones’
By Lou Thomas