Category: Films
Will we finally get a fabulous Fantastic Four film with First Steps?
The history of the Fantastic Four film franchise is like a malfunctioning portal to the Marvel multiverse: each time you step through you land in [more…]
‘Pre-sales are bigger than Barbie’: Bridget Jones 4 set to break box office records – despite no US cinema release
As the Oscars loom, cinemas are bracing themselves for a particular surge of interest in one hotly anticipated title. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, [more…]
The trans film-maker who remade Batman: ‘There’s a reason all the heroes are queer, mentally ill villains’
“It started as a joke,” says Vera Drew. “I just took it a little too far.” The 35-year-old former editor for Sacha Baron Cohen, Nathan [more…]
Love Hurts review – Everything Everywhere all over again
In his first live-action film appearance since winning an Oscar for Everything Everywhere All at Once, comeback kid Ke Huy Quan has chosen a movie [more…]
‘I was deeply upset’: Karla Sofía Gascón to miss Spanish ‘Oscars’ as storm over racist tweets continues
Karla Sofía Gascón will not attend this weekend’s prestigious Goya awards as the fallout from the Spanish actor’s racist and Islamophobic social media posts continues [more…]
‘I did it for the money!’ The films that made Tim Roth, Benedict Cumberbatch and more apologise
Benedict Cumberbatch: Zoolander 2 When it comes to what movies can get away with, tastes change fast. Just ask Benedict Cumberbatch, who decided to play [more…]
‘I’ve never had a cinematic experience like it’: readers’ memories of Prince Charles Cinema
Just off London’s heaving Leicester Square, around the corner from M&M’s World, is the cult film venue the Prince Charles Cinema. Converted into a cinema [more…]
From Alice to Zelig via Rosemary’s Baby: Mia Farrow’s 20 best films – ranked!
20. Avalanche (1978) Like many a Hollywood star, Farrow took part in a 1970s disaster movie. In this Roger Corman production she’s in a love [more…]
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles review – sex, secrets and the unbearable silence of loneliness
A woman’s work is never done in Chantal Akerman’s icily deadpan, degree-zero movie from 1975, now on rerelease for its 50th anniversary. Over three hours [more…]
Kinda Pregnant review – Amy Schumer’s Netflix comedy is kinda disappointing
Let me be clear: I am always rooting for Amy Schumer, though sometimes she makes it difficult. When she is good, she is great – [more…]
