Impact Film & TV

The tenth instalment in their Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy is a momentous accomplishment for Marvel Studios’ perpetually expanding franchise. This is more so due to the film’s ambition to adapt a cosmic comic that is distant and unique from previous superhero films, rather than the film’s actual efficacy....

The anthology film, a format favoured especially by the horror genre, seems bound by two rules: to consist of slight or superficial stories, and to be undone by one weak story. Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin breaks the first rule and stumbles with the second. It doesn’t so...