Serena Seghedoni

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke blends comedy, sci-fi and horror in A Useful Ghost, a genre-bending gem about memory, collective trauma, and revenge.

Ackie and Pattinson shine in Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, but the film is more concerned with surface-level satire than with compelling sci-fi storytelling.

Almost no movie shows the impact of pressure better than Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, using an all-star cast, including Philip Seymour Hoffman.

2024 Venice Immersive was filled with fantastic VR and XR experiences; here are all the Virtual Reality projects we watched at Venezia 81!

Film Review: Louder Than You Think is not just a documentary about Pavement drummer Gary Young, but also a devastatingly human look at fate, creativity, and life.

Film Review: Satan Wants You uses the 1980s-90s Satanic Panic hysteria to show us how easy it is to believe unlikely things when they’re marketed well.

Film Review: Clearly a product of the pandemic, Molli And Max In The Future is a rom-com set in space that won’t be for everyone but has a lot of heart.

Film Review: In her flawed but poignant debut And, Towards Happy Alleys, director Sreemoyee Singh sheds light on the protagonists of Iranian cinema.

Film Review: Like a theatre play, Ira Sachs’ Passages draws you in with irresistible character dynamics, played to perfection by Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw.

Film Review: The genre-defying Femme is a complex analysis of trauma, identity loss and internalised homophobia disguised as a revenge thriller.

Film Review: Inside gets lost in its own cleverness, taking us on a journey whose outcome we’ve been able to predict since the very start.

Film Review: Through the haunting story of a young man searching for himself, Drifter shows us what it’s like to be a cis white gay man in Berlin at a specific moment in time.

Jeremy Pope elevates Elegance Bratton’s autobiographical film The Inspection, a movie that perhaps works best as a story within a story.

Great performances elevate My Policeman, a wholly absorbing film about love, loss and prejudice, revolving around three people who unwittingly destroy one another.

Soon on Netflix, Thomas M. Wright’s film The Stranger is both a distressing true-crime drama inspired by actual events and an irresistible character study.

Emma Corrin and Jack O’ Connell shine in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Netflix ’s steamy, stunning, though a little too male-centric adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s novel.

The Son is another superb film from Florian Zeller, tackling mental health, family dynamics, generational trauma, and the choices we face as parents.

Gumball Dreams employs live theatre and gorgeous worldbuilding to craft a highly enjoyable, immersive VR experience. Now at the Venice Film Festival.

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune (2021) is both an immersive cinematic epic and a remarkable achievement in cinematography and sound design, shining with impressive world-building and strong performances from the entire cast.