Category: Films
Mark Kermode on… Danny Boyle, a director who defines British pop culture
Lancashire-born film-maker Danny Boyle holds a special place in the nation’s heart, having been responsible for not one but three defining moments in our recent [more…]
Star Wars’ Mark Hamill hails ‘Joe-B-Wan Kenobi’ after White House meeting
“You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.” But enough about Washington. The Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who once saw [more…]
Tarot review – disappointment is in the cards with silly supernatural horror
As many of us impatiently wait for the sixth Final Destination film, slated for release next year over a decade since the fifth, here comes [more…]
‘It’s about valuing their audience’: why Ghostbusters called in a Muslim ‘cultural consultant’
The “sensitivity reader” is a well-established, if controversial, figure in the publishing world, offering advice on whether a book’s content might cause offence. The film [more…]
Star Wars – The Phantom Menace: still terrible after all these years?
Can it really be that there are Star Wars fans who see George Lucas’s Episode I – The Phantom Menace, once considered the emblem of [more…]
Prom Dates review – grating high school comedy is a low-rent disaster
There are good reasons why many American teens stress about prom: it’s expensive, heightened, fraught with status and identity; the photos will haunt you forever; [more…]
‘His body was a tool telling truths’: Julian Clary and Juliet Stevenson on one actor’s extraordinary exit
‘I’ve always liked the company of older people,” says Julian Clary, still smoothly beautiful at 64. “I like the fact they’ve lived a life they [more…]
Unfrosted review – Jerry Seinfeld delivers a surreal toast to Pop-Tarts
Standup veteran Jerry Seinfeld makes his directing debut with this decent family comedy that puts a surreal twist on the history of Pop-Tarts, one of [more…]
Keeping it clean: Hollywood sex scenes decline by 40%
The advent of explicit films such as Poor Things, Saltburn and All of Us Strangers has been heralded as marking a revival of sex on [more…]
Go ape! Killer simians in cinema – ranked!
20. Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) Despite the English title, there’s only one “ape” in this cheesy slice of Mexploitation, once labelled a video [more…]
