Category: Films
‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood
It’s fair to say James Baldwin wasn’t a fan of The Exorcist. “It has absolutely nothing going for it,” he wrote in his 1976 memoir-meets-criticism [more…]
What’s the perfect movie length? Only a lightweight needs toilet or food breaks
I can still remember sitting down to Theo Angelopoulos’s legendary epic film The Travelling Players and noting that it was 222 minutes long and thinking [more…]
Turtles All the Way Down review – Isabela Merced leads winning yet uneven YA film
For better and for worse, John Green’s young adult worlds tend toward the dramatic and expansive – big swings, big emotions, big mysteries and dreams. [more…]
Nicole Kidman given life achievement award by American Film Institute
Nicole Kidman has been honoured with an American Film Institute life achievement award at a ceremony in which stars shared stories of “quite simply one [more…]
Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies
Analogies of life as sport have been exhausted by every PE teacher in existence. In the movies, however, they’re eternally renewable. Take Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s [more…]
‘Demolishing democracy’: how much danger does Christian nationalism pose?
Bad Faith, a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, opens with an obvious, ominous scene – the storming of [more…]
On Resistance Street review – punkish record of music’s long battle with racism
There’s no better time than now for a documentary on popular music’s role in the fight against racism and fascism. And in true punk spirit, [more…]
Emma Stone says she would like to be called by her real name: Emily
Her films have racked up more than $1bn at the box office and she has won two Oscars under her stage name, but Emma Stone [more…]
Laurent Cantet obituary
The social-realist boom in 1990s French cinema produced compelling new voices such as Jacques Audiard, Bruno Dumont and Érick Zonca. The most humane and rigorous [more…]
Can Zendaya make the leap from tween idol to Hollywood heavyweight?
Actor-model-producer Zendaya Coleman – universally known mononymously, without her last name – has never been short of attention, but it feels as if the 27-year-old [more…]
