Category: Films
The Watchers (AKA The Watched) review – M Night Shyamalan’s daughter tells us a silly old story
It’s a big year for the Shyamalan clan, bullishly expanding into the spotlight with such runaway speed that one assumes an accompanying reality show might [more…]
‘I’ll never forgive or forget’ – Griffin Dunne on the darkness that overtook his gilded Hollywood upbringing
Griffin Dunne has just written a book. He had been meaning to do so for ages. It was one of the items on his bucket [more…]
The man who warned us about UPFs: Michael Pollan on his 25-year fight with the food industry
In the middle of Food, Inc 2 – the follow-up documentary to 2008’s Food, Inc, narrated by Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser – scientists share [more…]
Harry Hill: ‘I always thought I’d make a good serial killer’
As a doctor, how often does a family member or friend ask: “I’ve got this little thing bothering me and wonder if you’d mind taking [more…]
Lumberjack the Monster review – an explosion of horror strangeness from a master of the art
The vintage year of 1999 has been back in the critical conversation recently for its quarter-centenary; it was the year of The Sixth Sense, The [more…]
The Dead Don’t Hurt review | Peter Bradshaw’s film of the week
This sinewy, sombre, handsomely crafted and beautifully shot western is Viggo Mortensen’s second feature as a director, an impressively authored movie in which Mortensen is [more…]
The Matrix review – barnstorming sci-fi still calling our reality into question
To paraphrase Apu in The Simpsons, this was the year filmgoers were partying like it was on sale for $19.99; it offered the vintage of [more…]
Food, Inc 2 review – second helping of broadsides against the food-industry crisis
Robert Kenner’s 2008 documentary Food, Inc was an angry wake-up call to the evils of industrialised food production. Now Kenner is back for another bite, [more…]
‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding
Take a stroll through the classic English countryside of West Sussex, and you’ll notice things becoming strange just beyond the village of Dial Post. Here, [more…]
Janis Paige obituary
Janis Paige, who has died aged 101, shone in films and numerous television shows, but her greatest triumph came in the Richard Adler/Jerry Ross Tony [more…]
