Category: Films
Credit at last for female screenwriter airbrushed from Hollywood history
To screenwriters in the 1950s, she was a major power player, fighting for pay rises and striking rights. To the Hollywood studio heads, she was [more…]
‘It’s been a mad old journey’: Danny Dyer on family, royalty and his tough guy image
It’s a beautiful day in Essex and I’m making myself at home with the Dyers. Theirs is a neat house on a hill, furnished in [more…]
Inner demons: grappling with childhood trauma in horror movies
In the first scene of Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical drama The Fabelmans, the director’s junior stand-in Sammy is traumatized by a train crash – not a [more…]
‘His skincare regime alone would bankrupt you’: Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman bring banter and bromance to London
The enduring friendship between the actors Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman was unpacked in irreverent detail in London on Friday, as the pair premiered their [more…]
‘A magical being’: Shelley Duvall remembered by Woody Allen, Daryl Hannah and Michael Palin
‘She gave me reports on last night’s date with Paul Simon’ Woody Allen, writer, director, co-star, Annie Hall (1977) We cast Shelley Duvall as the [more…]
‘I saw In Bed with Madonna 50 times. I’d never seen guys kissing before’: Levan Akin on formative films, trans rights and usurping his heroes
To say that Levan Akin’s experience of making his new film, Crossing, was more tranquil than his previous one, And Then We Danced, is a [more…]
Divorce in the Black review – Tyler Perry’s dull drama is his worst to date
When you see a title like Divorce in the Black appear underneath a Tyler Perry byline, you assume this is more not-so-clever wordplay that clumsily [more…]
Shelley Duvall was a sublime and subversive screen presence | Peter Bradshaw
It was Shelley Duvall’s destiny to become most widely known for a single film or maybe for a single poster image from it, shockingly and [more…]
Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism
If anyone could get away with presenting a “generative documentary” rather than a bog-standard bio-doc, it would have to be Brian Eno, the high priest [more…]
The Commandant’s Shadow review – family of Auschwitz commander bring healing to death-camp survivor
The first shock delivered by this engrossing documentary is probably the queasy jolt of recognition. Hans Jürgen Höss, the now elderly son of the Nazi [more…]
