Category: Films
First trailer for Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot released
The first footage has been released of Paramount’s upcoming reboot of the much-loved Naked Gun series of spoof police movies. The new film stars Liam [more…]
Meryl Streep in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie
Meryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia film, according to reports. According to Nexus Point News, and confirmed by [more…]
‘Dead white men are what I’m legitimately interested in’: film’s foremost podcaster on resurrecting the classics
‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So runs the most famous line from John Ford’s elegiac 1962 western The Man Who Shot Liberty [more…]
Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’
Elijah Wood has said that his salary for The Lord of the Rings movies was “not massive” and that appearing in the films was “a [more…]
From android to assassin: Daryl Hannah’s 10 best films – ranked!
10. The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) Looking as though she has strayed from another genre, Hannah plays Mickey Rourke’s girlfriend, a leggy aerobics instructor [more…]
Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, dies aged 65
Val Kilmer, the actor best known for his roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, has died at the age of 65. His [more…]
Balomania review – those magnificent Brazilians and their flying balloons
An intriguing film set in Brazil, first shown last year at the CPH:DOX documentary festival in Copenhagen, in which expatriate Danish film-maker Sissel Morell Dargis [more…]
Sebastian review – journalist turned sex-worker aims to turn side-hustle into art
Sex work as a window into human nature is a longstanding theme in cinema, from Kenji Mizoguchi’s Street of Shame to Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, [more…]
The full comté: quest to make a semi-hard cheese is French cinema’s breakout hit of the year
Louise Courvoisier grew up the daughter of farmers in France’s eastern Jura region and, by the time she was 15, was desperate to leave this [more…]
Help! Why are none of the new Beatles cast from Liverpool? | Peter Bradshaw
Sam Mendes has announced the cast for his colossal four-film Beatles extravaganza: Harris Dickinson as John, Paul Mescal as Paul, Barry Keoghan as Ringo and [more…]
