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Starring Nicole Behaire, Kendrick Sampson and newcome Alexis Chikaeze, Miss Juneteenth is the feature film directorial debut of Channing Godfrey Peoples. Behaire portrays Turquoise, a former Miss Juneteenth who is preparing her daughter…

In the second feature film by Cambodia-born British filmmaker Hong Khaou, Monsoon stars Henry Golding as Vietnamese-British man Kit, who returns to Vietnam to scatter his parents' ashes. Having left the country when he was a child, the…

Four years after she opened London Film Festival (LFF) with historical drama Suffragette, filmmaker Sarah Gavron's latest film Rocks won rave reviews at last year's LFF. Starring an array of British talent, the film follows a teenage girl…

In 1920, African-American actor Charles Gilpin was cast in the lead role of The Emperor Jones. His performance as Brutus Jones led to great acclaim and numerous honours, including the Spingarn Medal from the National Association for the…

After 2016's disappointing X-Men: Apocalypse and last year's box office bomb Dark Phoenix, it was clear that the X-Men were losing its stride since Wolverine's 'retirement' in 2017's Logan. This begs the question - do we need another X-Men…

If there was ever a lesson cinema has taught us, it's that the course of true love never runs smoothly. Recent rom-coms seem to offer a more light-hearted approach to love, the latest film by Chinese filmmaker Tingting Yao brings a tale of…

2020 marks not only the 44th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley but the 50th anniversary of Elvis: That’s The Way It Is. Marking his first non-dramatic film, the documentary follows The King of Rock ’n’ Roll in his 1969 comeback…

Directed by French filmmaker Alice Winocour, Proxima stars Eva Green as Sarah, an engineer and astronaut who has been chosen to fly into space. As she undergoes extensive training, the relationship with her daughter Stella (Zélie Boulant)…

The directorial debut of Harvard John, Sticky Toffee Pudding follows a group of students in their final year of boarding school. While Shelby (Samuel Nicholls) is mourning the death of his best friend Hephzibah (Abi Watkinson), his friends…

WARNING - SPOILERS AHEAD. Everyone wants good neighbours. When Sarah (Nicole Brydon Bloom), a young woman newly arriving in Los Angeles, finds a seemingly perfect apartment complex with friendly, helpful residents, she can’t wait to…