THE BEST OF SHANGHAI FASHION WEEK S/S 24
Shanghai Fashion Week 2024 started the Asian fashion calendar off with an electrifying start. Shanghai has been at the forefront of the Asian fashion market
THE FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON DISPLAYS 115 WORKS OF MARK ROTHKO IN TRIBUTE
“I became a painter because I wanted to elevate painting to a level as moving as music and poetry” – Mark Rothko Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was an
FIB RETRO FILM REVIEW: The Island of Dr Moreau
There’s a reason filmmakers keep revisiting HG Well’s classic – along with big questions about what differentiates us from animals (if anything), morals versus instincts,
FIB Film Review: Godzilla vs Kong
In the few years after 9/11 it was seen as tasteless and kind of grotesque to depict carnage in big cities with buildings falling down
FIB Film Review: Mank
There’s a movement among film aesthetes to make a movie look like it was made in the era depicted. Back in 2012 Ben Affleck used
FIB Film Review: The Nightingale
Some films give you a sense before you’re even halfway through that you’re watching something special (Primer) or something that sucks (most comedies). I felt
FIB Retro Film Review: The Omega Man
I’ll admit the 2007 release of I Am Legend prompted me to see the other two movies based on Richard Matheson’s classic sci-fi novel, and the more
FIB Retro Film Review: Kill Bill Vol 1
You could be forgiven for thinking the advent of Kill Bill signals a return to the throne of cult cooldom for the reigning King of fanboys everywhere.
FIB Film Review: In The Mood For Love
I’ve never been the hugest fan of Wong Kar Wai’s films, but this one is an example not just of how distinctive the art of
FIB Film Review: Overlord
What a cool, snappy, effective little horror thriller. There was some comment around about the wisdom of enmeshing a serious World War II story with
FIB Film Review: King of Thieves
The first thing that strikes you about a film where Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Ray Winstone, Michael Gambon and Tom Courtenay play criminals staging one
FIB Film Review: Ralph Breaks the Internet
A film that inspires nostalgia through a multi-generational gaming narrative is just what Disney delivered with box office hit, Wreck-It Ralph. I’m still not sure what
Forty Years Later, ‘Alien’ Continues to Terrify and Fascinate Us
In 1979, Ridley Scott’s Alien burst forth from the chest of the silver screen. With a splattering of blood and slime, Alien still makes us scream
‘If Beale St Could Talk’ and Radical Love
A stirring follow-up to his Best Picture Winning, Moonlight, Barry Jenkins gives us a sensual dedication to love in intimate spaces that is both the
