Filmmaker Matty Brown’s dreamy thriller, set on an abandoned island, is big on mood, but fails to find its anchor. Survival stories hinge on the grit and resilience of its characters. Food is scarce ...

U.S. director Matty Brown’s allegorical drama “The Sand Castle,” which sees Lebanese multi-hyphenate Nadine Labaki reunite on screen with young “Capernaum” siblings Zain and Reman Al Rafeea – who are ...

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 ...

Matty Brown with young stars of The Sand Castle Zain Al Rafeea (L), M Riman Al Rafeea (R) Getty Images The image of the lifeless body of two-year-old Kurdish-Syrian boy Alan Kurdi lying washed up on a ...