Film

Is it that time of the year already? Before the I Know That Face crew takes a short break in the new year, we're sharing our annual discussion of the best films of the past 12 months with you. 2021, like its predecessor, was a strange year…

“I had a lot riding on that match, you know. Financially and personally.” It's been 20 years since Wes Anderson introduced the world to a family in desperate need of a group hug. Anderson’s filmography normally reads like a…

“Once you overcome the one inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films” - Bong Joon Ho These were the words spoken by Bong Joon Ho at the 2020 Golden Globe awards after winning best…

In 2019, Nirmal “Nimsdai” (or Nims) Purja set out to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks in seven months, smashing the prior world record of seven years held by Jerzy Kukuczka in 1987. In total, forty climbers have done it over…

With Money Heist (La Casa de Papel), Netflix landed a winner. Since its release in 2017, the Spanish-language crime thriller has had all the right twists and turns, but now we get the final twist, and it does not disappoint. It is truly…

I love heist movies, for much the same reason that I love classic detective stories: the excitement of seeing a trick slowly dissected and laid out in front of you. A proper heist movie is about deception. Yes, there’s the core element of…

"You'll simply never understand the true nature of sacrifice." May Morrison - The Wicker Man In the past number of years one old subgenre of horror movies has seen a well deserved revival: folk horror. Those movies, as the name suggests…

C’mon C’mon. This isn’t just the title of writer/director Mike Mills’ fourth, and probably best, feature. It’s also a mantra for both its characters and just about anyone who inhabits the screen for even a nanosecond. The words are first…

This has been another tough year for the movie industry. Following on from the disaster of 2020 when audiences around the world were shut out of cinemas for months at a time due to restrictions around the world, many hoped that 2021…

For the final character actor episode of 2021, Stephen and Andrew look at the career of Swedish actress Noomi Rapace. Best known as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and its sequels, Rapace has…