On the cover: Steve McQueen takes us inside his new film Blitz.
Inside: Sean Baker on Anora, and sex work at the movies, Pedro Almodóvar on The Room Next Door, No Other Land, The Apprentice,The Wild Robot and Jean-Pierre Melville.
"It was important to me that the movie be an epic. The reason it was important is because of scale… Seeing the Second World War through the eyes of a prepubescent child was important to give us a refocusing of where and who we are now. It is echoed in wars going on now – not just in Ukraine or Israel and Palestine, but elsewhere too. And with the recent race riots in the UK, the film has so much relevance to what’s going on now, even though it’s set in the 1940s."
