Category: Films
Little Monsters review – infuriatingly awful family film is worse than AI
Made in Russia in 2022, this animated flick has been dubbed in American English for global release, but it seems unlikely that it made much [more…]
Ciné-Guerrillas/Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels review – thoughtful and worthwhile
It’s well worth watching this pair of pensive documentaries by Mila Turajlić, which, through the person of Marshal Tito’s preferred cameraman Stevan Labudović, highlight and [more…]
Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema
In 1999, cinemagoers flocked to watch The Talented Mr Ripley, in which Jude Law smoked cigarettes in a lazily buttoned linen shirt. The same year, [more…]
Anora is a vivacious Cannes victor and a fitting end to a radically romantic festival
This was a Cannes that turned out to be about love, and the Palme d’Or went to a love story that knocks down the whole [more…]
Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Anora, a tragi-comic modern-day Cinderella story about a stripper who marries a multimillionare, made by the American director Sean Baker, has won the coveted Palme [more…]
Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders
“Which film is this?” the burly US critic asks twice, as the house lights go down inside the Bazin cinema. The first time he’s half-joking, [more…]
Super Size Me: the film that sounded a fast-food alarm in America
When a person shuffles off their mortal coil, they count themselves lucky to have some quantifiable or tangible expression of their legacy – an accomplishment [more…]
Cut! Building of new UK film and TV studios on hold after pandemic streaming boom
The latest series of the Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine may be a supernatural thriller but it is being filmed in more [more…]
Dabney Coleman obituary
In the 1980 office comedy hit film 9 to 5, Jane Fonda, as one of three long-suffering office workers subjected to endless harassment by their [more…]
Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it
Twenty years ago, no one was a bigger beneficiary of the Michael Moore documentary boom than gonzo doc comic Morgan Spurlock who royally punk’d the [more…]
