From Ryan Gosling’s Fall Guy to Anya Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa, the best films to see at the cinema in May
While this month is topped and tailed with explosive blockbusters The Fall Guy and Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, in between is a clutch of cracking smaller-scale gems. Curiously, two hot young British stars are giving their foreign language skills a go: George MacKay in The Beast and Josh O’Connor in La Chimera. But first, a thrilling new London director...
Film of the month: Hoard
Like an unexpected glob of sticky bin juice, Londoner Luna Carmoon’s hypnotically strange debut will stubbornly cling to your retinas long after the closing credits. An oddly revolting metaphor, were it not for the fact that from the outset we are plunged waist-deep in trash.
It's 1984 and Cynthia (Hayley Squires) is leading her seven-year-old daughter Maria (Lily-Beau Leach) on a merry treasure hunt through the giant council estate waste carts of south-east London. They’re having a whale of a time, but as they return to a house crammed to the rafters with junk, it’s clear this is a seriously compulsive refuse collection obsession.
