Category: Arts
The Life of Sean DeLear review – loving film about queer black punk rocker, and secret legend
That’s Sean DeLear, pronounced like “chandelier”, born Anthony Robertson in 1964. You probably haven’t heard of him: DeLear was the lead singer of a band [more…]
‘I wish I’d never written that damn movie’: Rust director Joel Souza on finishing his film after the fatal on-set shooting
Joel Souza never liked guns. “I didn’t grow up around them and I don’t like the culture,” says the grey-haired 51-year-old film-maker sitting at a [more…]
Jeremy Renner speaks about ‘tiny but monumental slip of the mind’ which led to snowplough accident
Jeremy Renner has detailed the chain of events which led to him being crushed by his own snowplough on New Year’s Day 2023. Writing in [more…]
Mark Knopfler on Dire Straits’ Money for Nothing: ‘I wrote it in the window display of a New York appliance store’
Mark Knopfler, guitar/vocals/writer I was in an appliance shop in New York and there was a big bonehead in there delivering gear. All the TVs [more…]
David Amess’s daughter urges Kneecap to say sorry for alleged ‘kill your MP’ call
The daughter of the Conservative MP who was stabbed to death has called on the Irish-language rap group Kneecap to apologise over comments in which [more…]
Violin used in Titanic movie sells for £54,000
A violin which featured in James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster Titanic has sold for £54,000 at an auction in Wiltshire of memorabilia relating to the 1912 [more…]
Final autopsy results on Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, reveal complex health issues
Two months after the actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in Santa Fe, final autopsy results on [more…]
‘Like sinking into a warm bath’: why Jaws is my feelgood movie
What makes a film “feelgood”? If it’s not a romcom, or otherwise setting out to impart warm fuzzies, familiarity plays a big part. I’ve seen [more…]
Bury Us in a Lone Desert review – moving and macabre odd-couple road trip
Love is a many-splendored thing in this idiosyncratic, highly stylised debut from Vietnamese film-maker Nguyễn Lê Hoàng Phúc. Blurring the lines between genres and styles, [more…]
Boonie Bears: Future Reborn review – kiddie Chinese eco-fable is like Mad Max on mushrooms
When George Michael recorded Careless Whisper, there can be no doubt his ultimate ambition for it would have been to soundtrack a garish animated sequence [more…]
