Category: Films
How did Hitler’s film-maker hide her complicity from the world?
Leni Riefenstahl had several successes at the Venice film festival. In 1932, the festival’s inaugural year, the German film-maker’s mystical mountain drama The Blue Light [more…]
‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral?
When screenwriter David Scarpa visits the great Hollywood studios these days, he is struck by what is missing. “It used to be you’d walk around [more…]
Francis Ford Coppola unveils Megalopolis graphic novel
Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s $120m passion project, was neither a box office nor a critical success on release last year. Largely funded by the sale [more…]
Tinā: the tiny, big-hearted New Zealand movie that became a smash hit – against the odds
Days after Tinā premiered in February, lead actress Anapela Polataivao’s 80-year-old aunt stood up in church and implored her congregation to see the film. “She [more…]
Can Predator: Badlands finally prove a shared universe with Alien was a good idea?
Somewhere out there in the multiverse is a movie saga in which all great dystopian sci-fi is united under one roof: a place where Xenomorphs [more…]
Post your questions for Nicolas Cage
There aren’t many actors who transcend the roles they play in quite the unique way as Nicolas Cage. Born Nicolas Coppola (his uncle is Francis [more…]
Pedro Pascal calls JK Rowling a ‘heinous loser’ in wake of supreme court gender ruling
The actor Pedro Pascal has attacked author JK Rowling on X, calling her a “heinous loser”. Pascal responded to a comment reporting the words of [more…]
Netflix chief Ted Sarandos says cinemagoing is ‘outmoded’ and the streamer is ‘saving Hollywood’
Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO of Netflix, has defended his company’s reputation, saying the streamer is “saving Hollywood” by securing an audience for content which would [more…]
Coming soon … fame for film’s unsung superheroes: the trailer-makers!
A few years ago, a Hollywood studio approached the tech giant IBM with an idea. Perhaps it would be fun if Watson – the company’s [more…]
Until Dawn review – efficient, if unscary, video game horror
A week after the release of Ryan Coogler’s unusual, artfully crafted horror Sinners, we are now back to the industry’s genre norm with Until Dawn, [more…]
