Wendy Ide

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

From a pleasant but unexceptional Pixar flick to a record-breaking Swedish hit, our film critic rounds up the best of the rest Elio(98 mins, PG) Directed by Adrian Molina, Domee Shi, Madeline Sharafian; starring Yonas Kibreab, Zoe Saldaña, Brad GarrettPixar, at its very best, delivers the full package.

1 week ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

The true horror of Danny Boyle’s original zombie masterpiece was its subtext. The third film is missing a message – and a satisfactory conclusion It has been 28 long years since the events of Danny Boyle’s 2002 zombie masterpiece 28 Days Later, in which a “rage virus”, accidentally released from an animal testing facility, tore through the UK and gutted the entire country.

1 week ago | screendaily.com | Wendy Ide

Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver’s animated documentary is a “picture infused with love” Source: Annecy International Film Festival Dirs: Seth Scriver, Peter Scriver. Canada. 2025. 97mins The riffing, noodling conversations between two Canadian half-brothers – one Indigenous and one white – are the basis for this idiosyncratic and affectionate animated documentary. The aim was to create something “funny, beautiful, spiritual, political, complex, simple and true”.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

How to Train Your Dragon(125 mins, PG) Directed by Dean DeBlois; starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard ButlerI am yet to be convinced that live-action remakes of classic animations are ever entirely justified (and no, naked studio venality isn’t reason enough). But if you must cannibalise your own intellectual property, then this is the way to do it.

2 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Wendy Ide

A young woman seeks vengeance on a brutal criminal gang in this skin-flaying Scottish badlands-set feature – a film so vivid you can almost smell it… Cinema, like water, tends to take the path of least resistance. The vast majority of creative decisions, in mainstream cinema and even at the artier end of the spectrum, flow along familiar routes, within recognisable genres, each with their own accepted set of conventions and rules.