Category: Films
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – Anya Taylor-Joy is tremendous as chase resumes
‘My childhood! My mother! I want them back!” With this howl of anguish, young Furiosa, played by Anya Taylor-Joy, sets the tone of vengeful rage [more…]
If review – John Krasinski’s so-so, sentimental family fantasy
If, the new kids comedy from John Krasinski, has all the elements of a family friendly hit: a healthy dose of sentimentality, a heavy emphasis [more…]
Meryl Streep: it’s ‘hardest thing’ for men to see themselves in female characters
The cruel and unwelcoming fashion magazine editor at the icy heart of 2006 comedy hit The Devil Wears Prada may not strike many viewers as [more…]
Wild Diamond review – French social-realist drama fuelled by TikTok energy
Feature first-timer Agathe Riedinger is bringing the TikTok energy for this story of a wannabe Insta influencer-princess from the wrong side of the tracks – [more…]
‘I am gross, animal and carnal’: Luna Carmoon on her disturbing, stinky-scented new film
To reach Luna Carmoon, who is at the other end of a banquet table tucking into her vegetable pie, I have to shuffle sideways along [more…]
The Second Act review – Quentin Dupieux’s likable meta comedy of actors’ private lives
Cannes can always do worse than choose a comedy for its opening gala, and the festival is off to an amiable, entertaining start. Quentin Dupieux [more…]
Greta Gerwig: ‘The number of female directors has gotten better. We’re not done yet’
The reviews were gushing on the first day of the 77th Cannes film festival, as Barbie director Greta Gerwig took up her duties as this [more…]
Roman Polanski acquitted of defamation by French court
A French court on Tuesday acquitted French-Polish film-maker Roman Polanski of defaming British actor Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she [more…]
Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever review – Danish morgue sequel returns from the dead
Thirty years ago, just before the Dogme 95 movement raised the profile of Danish film-making, Ole Bornedal’s suspense thriller Nightwatch was what success for the [more…]
‘Has this guy ever made a movie before?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s 40-year battle to film Megalopolis
‘My greatest fear is to make a really shitty, embarrassing, pompous film on an important subject, and I am doing it,” Francis Ford Coppola said [more…]
