Josh Slater-Williams
All articles by Josh Slater-Williams
Chasing Amy and the LGBTQIA+ community: “There’s no consensus on this movie. It remains complicated to a lot of people”
With its out-and-proud lesbian character, Kevin Smith’s cult 90s comedy Chasing Amy was a revelation to future filmmaker Sav Rodgers, growing up as a bullied suburban teen. In new documentary Chasing Chasing Amy, he grapples with the film’s thorny legacy.
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 to see at Glasgow Film Festival 2024
By Josh Slater-Williams
River: a two-minute time loop traps a group of hospitality workers in this breezy Japanese sci-fi
By Josh Slater-Williams
Koji Fukada on his family drama Love Life: “If you have a deaf character in a film, the chances are they’re pure and angelic”
By Josh Slater-Williams
LOLA: a dark alt-history time-travel caper
By Josh Slater-Williams
Emily Watson on Ireland-set assault drama God’s Creatures: “We’re all complicit because the status quo is for all of us”
By Josh Slater-Williams
1976: Manuela Martelli on her Hitchcockian thriller about life under Pinochet
By Josh Slater-Williams
Borderlines Film Festival: 10 to watch
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 to see at Glasgow Film Festival 2023
By Josh Slater-Williams
The company of wolves: how we made snowbound mystery January
By Josh Slater-Williams
Where to begin with James Cameron
By Josh Slater-Williams
Hold Me Tight: Mathieu Amalric’s elliptical portrait of loss
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 great films with DIY special effects
By Josh Slater-Williams
Special Delivery: superior car-chase thriller
By Josh Slater-Williams
Men in Black at 25 and the end of the practical effects era
By Josh Slater-Williams
Death of a Ladies’ Man: new skin for old songs
By Josh Slater-Williams
François Ozon on his assisted-suicide drama Everything Went Fine: “The film is like a thriller”
By Josh Slater-Williams
Vikings don’t cry: Thomas Daneskov on his off-grid comedy Wild Men
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 films to watch out for at Glasgow Film Festival 2022
By Josh Slater-Williams
Fred Baillif on La Mif: “Social work is the best film school for storytelling”
By Josh Slater-Williams
Where to begin with Shinji Somai
By Josh Slater-Williams
Martyrs Lane invites an angelic, ghostly child into a family home
By Josh Slater-Williams
Wildfire: Cathy Brady and Nora-Jane Noone on their Irish border drama
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 to see at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2021
By Josh Slater-Williams
10 great debut films by music video directors
By Josh Slater-Williams
A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it
By Henry Barnes, Whelan Barzey and others