Imogen Smith

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Adam Nayman |Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith

Celebrity resentments and insecurities are portrayed with unusual tenderness in this clever Hollywood Hills satire featuring Elizabeth Reaser, Walton Goggins, and Pedro Pascal. 6 May 2025Nadia Conners’ The Uninvited is a Hollywood Hills psychodrama; its caustic, quippy vision of flawed showbiz professionals stumbling through a dark night of the soul sits at the intersection of The Player (1992) and Sunset Blvd. (1950).

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Kim Newman |Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang

The Marvel Cinematic Universe has drifted since Avengers Endgame (2019), which tied up plotlines developed over a decade. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) – one of the series’ biggest hits – jokes about the underperformance of subsequent MCU projects. Proposed replacements for major characters like Captain America and Black Panther haven’t exactly been embraced. Marvel Comics had a similar wobble in the 1990s, when they launched the instantly-dated ‘Heroes Reborn’ reboot.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Catherine Wheatley |Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold

There are several versions of the myth of Parthenope. In one, she was a siren, who, heartbroken by her failure to seduce Ulysses, threw herself into the sea. After fishermen recovered her beautiful drowned body, they buried her, and the site of her interment grew into the city of Naples. In another, Parthenope was a mere mortal, in love with the centaur Vesuvius.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Imogen Smith |Jessica Kiang |Nicolas Rapold |Jessica Winter

Zhao Tao embodies modern alienation as Qiao Qiao, an enigmatic figure drifting through time and space in contemporary China. 1 May 2025Certain actors hold our attention simply by the way they move through space. Zhao Tao never speaks in Caught by the Tides (2024), the latest film in her longrunning collaboration with her husband, the director Jia Zhangke.

Nov 12, 2024 | downtownny.com | Imogen Smith

Step back into the world of 1960s Manhattan at the Downtown Alliance’s latest installation of New York on Film! Join us at Alamo Drafthouse Lower Manhattan (28 Liberty St.) on December 3 for a special screening of Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” followed by a thought-provoking discussion with distinguished film critics Molly Haskell and Imogen Sara Smith.