Jasmine Valentine

The Wachowskis’ 1996 neo-noir starring Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly is an enduring, subversive romance.

Fresh off the back of a spate of unique, original programming including Severance, Pachinko and Roar, Apple TV+ makes its debut outing in the realm of historical period drama with The Essex Serpent.
Adapted from Sarah Perry's 2016 novel of the same name, the narrative charts the story of recent widow Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), who uproots her London life and heads to the Essex coastline upon hearing rumours of a mythical serpent preying on a local community.
Its creative team, spearheaded ...

After 21 years of animated Barbie movies, a live-action adaptation is making its way to the big screen.

Warner Bros. is officially a Barbie girl, and the internet is already living in a Barbie world. Twitter and TikTok have been overrun with real-time coverage of the film’s shooting, with principal photography beginning in England in March 2022. Current filming is taking place across Los Angeles, with appearances from prominent cast members across Venice Beach stirring up plenty of public interest.

Words by Jasmine Valentine
What makes the surreal, surreal? According to director Park Chan-wook’s distinctive body of work, the surrealist touch can mean many things.
Often tinged with an overwhelming sense of sexiness, international hits including Lady Vengeance, The Handmaiden, and Oldboy continue to honour his wild sense of imagination, sitting him atop the mountain of daring Korean cinema.
Yet his latest release, Decision To Leave, presents a different kind of surrealism altogether.
It’s so...

With LGBT+ characters appearing in hits like Life Is Strange and The Last Of Us, gaming’s toxic side can still hold back representation.
Whoever we are and whatever we do, we all deserve to see ourselves represented in the things we love. For LGBTQIA+ gamers, a healthy amount of genuine representation can be hard to come by. While groups such as queer men and trans people have an equal amount of depiction issues, queer women’s inclusion in the gaming world presents an extra challenge. As gami...

TRON 40th Anniversary feature featuring an interview with cinematographer Bruce Logan.

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Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet is giving summer heat on the coast of Brittany. Should be foolproof.
Commeth the hour, commeth the erratic millennial with her life in total chaos.
No lesbian deaths to be seen and a rubbish boyfriend is put firmly in his place.
A flighty young woman sets out to seduce a lover's girlfriend in Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet's charming queer romance.
Amidst an ever-concerning heatwave, a cinematic summer of seduction has made itself known to audiences. Larger ...

Sometimes, telly’s only job is to make us feel better about ourselves. We tune into things to tune out of others, and root for someone that has it worse off. Watching Euphoria’s Rue space out or Cassie dress up as an extra from Oklahoma! is now TV’s messy binge-watch of choice. For early 2000s Brits, the obsession started with CBBC’s The Story of Tracy Beaker.
At its core, the premise was simple. Swap out a high school filled with curious and complicated characters for a foster care home call...

The man, the myth, the legend… yep, FILMHOUNDS got to sit down with Mr Jeff Bridges himself. In this exclusive roundtable interview, the king of the white russian discusses his latest TV show The Old Man, coming to Disney+ from 28th September. Bridges plays Dan Chase, who absconded from the CIA and lives off the grid. When an assassin arrives and tries to take Chase out, the old operative learns that to ensure his future he now must reconcile his past.
Through the production of The Old Man, y...

Juliette Binoche plays a middle-class woman who exposes the lives of the working class in Between Two Worlds, but the film also investigates the moral ambiguity inherent within this proposition.
Humanitarian crises rage, social uprisings break out; the turmoil of the modern world asks us to stop and consider if we’re living up to our potential as a ‘good person’. If we help someone in a time of crisis, we count it towards an imagined charter of acts of kindness. While this is commendable, the...

It’s true — Elvis Presley is back in the building. Thanks to the outrageous cinematic glamour of Baz Luhrmann, the King is returning front and center to the public eye. With Austin Butler embodying the legendary rock star’s hip-shaking spirit, Elvis turns the tables on his often fraught relationship with morally scant manager Col. Tom Parker (Tom Hanks).

Charlie Cooper discusses SEE HOW THEY RUN with Filmhounds Magazine.

Laure Calamy gives a sensational lead turn in Sébastien Marnier's twisty tale of mistaken identity set in a millionaire’s playground
In the immortal words of The Simpsons, “you don’t win friends with salad” – and director Sébastien Marnier proves the sentiment works for lower-class women working in a fish factory, too. In the world of the uber-rich, possessions are there to be forgotten and occasionally stolen by a maid, while family stands for nothing. In dire straits, actions can perhaps be...

It’s possible that the only way to make a tantalising story more seductive is to add an element of truth. In recent years, televising a fictitious retelling of real stories has held favour with UK audiences—often delicious in their efforts to answer the unknown questions that have evaded the bandwidth of cold, hard facts. If the BBC have mastered the period drama and Channel 4 is the go-to for visceral modern narratives, ITV has continually excelled in the riveting delivery of the biopic. Per...