Black Mirror Photo : ©Channel Four/Courtesy Everett Collection Channel 4/Netflix 2011-present  Black Mirror— from its first days on British television to its current life as a streaming sensation reappearing to shock and delight every few years — has made its name as an anthology of unusual ambition and cumulative power. Its sense of dystopia, one generated at […]

Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller take on the terrible challenge of being German actors playing Nazis in Jonathan Glazer’s unsparing Holocaust film The Zone of Interest. They play a Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss and his socioplath wife Hedwig, who lived with their children in bucolic bubble next to the Auschwitz concentration camp at the start […]

“The key thing to look at … is that the book ends with a question mark.”

The whimsical Japanese film wisely opened on a weekend when there were no new wide releases from the major Hollywood studios.