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The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias review – Slavoj Žižek goes in search of paradise

Inserting himself into settings from Apocalypse Now to The Handmaid’s Tale, the pop-cultural critic finds it hard to locate the perfect ending – even with spoilers

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7

Can’t stand subtitles? These 11 international masterpieces will change your mind

Subtitles are everywhere on social media, but on film some see them as an obstacle. In fact, they are an opportunity – containing the potential to unlock cinema’s universality

The Guardian - UK · Feb 5

There's more to Horses than the Steam ban: The controversial horror game is a great example of how games can effectively borrow from film, and how they can also stumble

After playing Horses, I found it fascinating, but it didn't take its juxtaposition of mundane chores and extreme violence far enough.

PC Gamer · Dec 16, 2025

32 Underrated Movies Worth Watching

Don't overlook these low-key classics.

Marie Claire · Feb 22, 2024

The rock’s the star: meditative film about a Cornish stone goes global

Christopher Morris’s documentary, A Year in a Field, delights sold-out Newlyn audience as it heads for festivals worldwide

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023

On my radar: Ardal O’Hanlon’s cultural highlights

The Father Ted actor on laughing out loud at Jamie Demetriou, an architectural pilgrimage to Pennsylvania and where to find Dublin’s fanciest artichoke

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2023

Jeanne Dielman: 'greatest film of all time' is a masterpiece of slow cinema that richly details life's quiet intricacies

Every ten years the British Film Institute’s (BFI) in-house magazine, Sight and Sound, polls a large number of critics and film-writers to produce a list of the greatest films of all time.

The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022

New Movie Lists Honor Jeanne Dielman and 2001, Snub TikTok

Friday A/V Club: Sight and Sound revises the film canon again.

Reason · Dec 2, 2022

Female director tops poll of greatest films for first time in 70 years

Chantal Akerman’s 1975 film Jeanne Dielman claims top spot in the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound poll

Wales Online · Dec 2, 2022

The 'greatest film of all time': Chantal Akerman's win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers

Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight and Sound’s prestigious poll.

The Conversation · Dec 2, 2022