But, under the bright light of an otherwise ordinary Spring-break morning, the unsuspecting teens realise that, somehow, the sand under their feet is alive, ready to devour those who touch it.

Netflix's drama The Sand Castle is a powerful and provocative piece of cinema, destined to put writer-director Matty Brown onto Hollywood's radar.

Directed by Matty Brown and written by Brown, Hend Fakhroo, and Yassmina Karajah, The Sand Castle (Netflix) draws us into a porous place somewhere between cope and reality, a space that becomes ...

Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and ...