Time in the Flesh: A Queer East Correspondence

Tem­po­ral­i­ties of Grief  By Soumya Sharma What hap­pens when the past doesn’t leave but lingers – qui­et, unre­solved, and heavy? At Queer East 2025, grief and mem­o­ry seemed to haunt not only the nar­ra­tives but also the struc­ture of the films them­selves, writ­ten into their pac­ing, silences and rep­e­ti­tions. In Wang Ping-Wen and Peng Tzu-Hui’s A Jour­ney in … Read more

The 13 Strangest Movies We’ve Ever Seen

These are the strangest movies we’ve ever seen — some of which are also among the best movies we’ve ever seen. Think we forgot one? Let us know in the comments. Mulholland Drive (2001) Universal Pictures The strangest thing about Mulholland Drive, arguably David Lynch’s best movie, is that it seems almost conventional, at the … Read more

The Existential Chic of La Notte

This fea­ture is the third in our sum­mer series, La Dolce Vita: A Cel­e­bra­tion of Ital­ian Screen Style, in part­ner­ship with Disaronno. La Notte, the mid­point of Michelan­ge­lo Antonioni’s ​“alien­ation tril­o­gy”, depicts an exis­ten­tial cri­sis that is only made more explic­it by the film’s gleam­ing sur­face. This icon­ic 1961 film cap­tures, over a day and a night in … Read more

Who gets to be on the big screen?

Casting director Lucy Pardee lifts the lid on her latest project, Lollipop, and working in the casting industry.  In Rocks, a teenage girl struggles to care for her little brother after being abandoned by her mother; In Bird, a young girl seeks magical adventure away from her unpredictable father; In Aftersun, a young girl’s father-daughter holiday comes to … Read more

Walton Goggins, Jennifer Tilly Pay Tribute

Hollywood is mourning the loss of Michael Madsen, who died Thursday, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed. He was 67. The actor, known for his work in many Quentin Tarantino films like Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, The Hateful Eight and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, was found unresponsive by deputies responding to a 911 call at his home in … Read more

From Hilde, With Love review – too staid to make…

In East Ger­many, where direc­tor Andreas Dresen grew up, Hilde and Hans Cop­pi were talked about with the kind of rev­er­ence nor­mal­ly reserved for saints. Mem­bers of a Com­mu­nist Ger­man resis­tance group known as the Red Orches­tra, which was work­ing to aid the Sovi­et Union against the Nazis, Hilde and Hans were regard­ed more as sym­bols … Read more

Peter Cushing lives forever in Whitstable

I, on the oth­er hand, was deter­mined to com­mit as much of my day to mem­o­ry as I could – and it was clear, as a I arrived ear­ly at the venue, the Horse­bridge Arts Cen­tre, that oth­ers were of a sim­i­lar mind; a crowd was already gath­er­ing, chat­ting over tea served up by Noël him­self, and rub­bing shoul­ders … Read more