James Blunt at the O2 Arena

Musical artists don’t come more self-aware than James Blunt. Celebrating the 20th...

Shadowbox

One of the changes under Tricia Tuttle’s first Berlinale is the introduction of...

Berlin Film Festival 2025: What Marielle Knows | Review

The 75th edition of the Berlinale seemed set on breaking with stereotypes. Perhaps a shock to many, the Competition film that garnered the most laughs from its international audience was the sole German entry, What Marielle Knows. Even the decision to include Frédéric Hambalek’s sophomore feature and bench more established directors into...

The Ugly Stepsister

The story of Cinderella has been passed down across the world for...

Mom

In his feature-length directorial debut, Adam O’Brien imagines motherhood as a horror story. Set almost...

The Monkey

Stephen King’s The Monkey was first given life when published as a short story in...

A Thousand Blows

Created, written and executive produced by Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight, A Thousand Blows...

Berlin Film Festival 2025: Girls on Wire | Review

Even with the presence of an underground heroin den, the most intriguing setting in Vivian Qu’s Girls on Wire is a sprawling film studio, where reality and performance blur but never quite merge narratively into a film-within-a-film. Instead, the cool-toned, behind-the-scenes set-up is where the film’s protagonist, Fang Di (Wen Qi), a...

The White Lotus season three

A new batch of exceedingly wealthy holidaymakers check in to the titular luxury hotel...

The Thundermans: Undercover

Once capitalising on the growing popularity of the 2010s superhero-focused...

Firebird restaurant to host Michelin-starred chef Savannah Hagendijk for International Women’s Day

In celebration of...

The Ice Tower

In her Berlinale entry, The Ice Tower (La tour de glace), French writer and...

Late Shift

Unfolding over a single, high-pressure shift in a surgical ward, Petra Volpe’s...

The Old Woman with the Knife

Assassination may seem like a young man’s game, but Hornclaw...

Snow Patrol at the O2 Arena

Snow Patrol made a momentous return with their first headline show since 2019, not...

“This is a film about people looking at other people and wanting what they have”: Sam Riley and Jack Farthing on Islands at Berlinale 2025

“I couldn’t have hoped for a better cast for this film”: Jan-Ole Gerster on Islands at Berlinale 2025

Magic Farm

In hopes of filming a special on a viral music clip, a US television crew...

Islands

German director Jan-Ole Gerster’s (A Coffee in Berlin) English-language debut is...

Mickey 17

Anticipation was already high as to what Korean director extraordinaire Bong...

No Beast. So Fierce.

Beginning with all the force of a courtroom gavel, Burhan Qurbani’s...

Dreams

Michel Franco’s Dreams follows the fraught romance between Jennifer McCarthy...

Paternal Leave

There’s a certain poetic quality to Paternal Leave, a film that leans...

Living the Land

Set in the rural village of Bawangtai in the early 90s, Huo Meng’s second...

Cicadas

Cicadas unfolds with a painterly precision, as Ina Weiss crafts a meditation on the...