Category: Films
Head of France’s cinema agency sentenced to three years for sexual assault of godson
Dominique Boutonnat, the head of France’s powerful National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, including [more…]
Kalki 2898 AD review – maximalist sci-fi epic mixes Mahabharata with Mad Max
This fizzy Telugu-language mashup of Indian mythology, martial arts and Bollywood-style dance-romance-and-melodrama plot mechanics, all filtered through a fine sci-fi sieve, is mostly a hoot. [more…]
Is Marvel breaking all its own rules with the new Fantastic Four movie?
Once upon a time, every new superhero movie seemed to exist in (not-so) splendid isolation. Michael Keaton’s Batman never met Christopher Reeve’s Superman, despite the [more…]
‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security
Stellan Skarsgård is speaking to me from his cabin, outside Stockholm, and why shouldn’t he look relaxed and happy, in those clement, sun-dappled surrounds? But [more…]
A Family Affair review – Nicole Kidman’s hot age-gap romance quickly goes cold
When it comes to age-gap films starring Nicole Kidman, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth is surely impossible to follow. But newcomer screenwriter Carrie Solomon and director Richard [more…]
A Quiet Place: Day One review – noise-free alien-invasion prequel starts with a bang
The hideous novelty is leaking a little from what now has to be called the Quiet Place franchise, about humans of the future forced to [more…]
Happy 100th birthday, Eva Marie Saint! Her best films – ranked
10. The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966) Eva Marie Saint’s character and her playwright husband (Carl Reiner) play two of the islanders [more…]
Tony Lo Bianco obituary
The American actor Tony Lo Bianco, who has died of cancer aged 87, specialised in hoods and heavies, often played with an uncommon twinkle in [more…]
Will The Rock’s Red One be the worst Christmas movie ever?
Red One, the upcoming Christmas movie from Amazon, is arguably among the most talked-about of the year. However, until now, the conversation has had little [more…]
‘In one scene, Celine Dion’s dancing. Next, she’s on a gurney’: making the film about the singer’s tragic condition
Irene Taylor has travelled the world to tell stories about sexual abuse scandals and oil spills, staunch conservationists and blind Nepalese farmers trying to regain [more…]
