Category: Films
The Boy in the Woods review – boys’ own tale of Holocaust fugitive forced to fend for himself
This sweet if somewhat sentiment-and-string-section-forward Canadian film tells the true story of Max (Jett Klyne, impressive), a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to [more…]
5lbs of Pressure – drugs, murder and a likable Rory Culkin in low-key crime drama
Set in New York City and filmed in Manchester, England, here is a film that aims to play like a feature-length episode of The Wire [more…]
The Apprentice: Trump campaign threatens legal action over biopic that depicts him as a rapist
The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at [more…]
The Shrouds review – David Cronenberg gets wrapped up in grief
David Cronenberg’s new film is a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to [more…]
The Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early years
Donald Trump will not be the smallest bit worried by this genially ironic, lenient TV movie-style treatment of his early adventures in 70s landlordism, property [more…]
The Substance review – Demi Moore is game for a laugh in grisly body horror caper
Coralie Fargeat, known for the violent thriller Revenge from 2017, now cranks up the amplifier for some death metal … or nasty injury metal anyway. [more…]
Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1: Costner casts himself as wildly desirable cowboy
After three saddle-sore hours, Kevin Costner’s handsome-looking but oddly listless new western doesn’t get much done in the way of satisfying storytelling. Admittedly, this is [more…]
Limonov: The Ballad review – Ben Whishaw brilliant as Russia’s outlaw bohemian
Fascism, punk, euphoria and despair … it’s all here, or mostly, in this hilarious biopic of Eduard Limonov, the rock’n’roll émigré Russian writer and patriot-dissident [more…]
German star at Cannes condemns ‘madness’ of protective culture for UK child actors
Is Britain leading the way in protecting young people and children from the potential traumas of working on a film set, or has it all [more…]
The Balconettes review – neighbours finding trouble in invitation to hot guy’s flat
Here to prove that “actor project” movies are always the ones with the dodgiest acting is the otherwise estimable French star Noémie Merlant who presents [more…]
