Category: Films
‘We’re all wrestling with something all the time’: Jennifer Lopez on disability, domestic abuse, and dealing with the next Trump presidency
Unstoppable, the new film about the high school and college career of wrestler Anthony Robles, who was born with one leg, follows the established tropes [more…]
An Eddie Murphy-Martin Lawrence romcom is the comfort watch America needs right now
His dad was the Nutty Professor. Her dad was Big Momma. And now they could be teaming up for their biggest blockbuster yet – a [more…]
How far she went: why did the Moana films become such a phenomenon?
If you want a quick explanation of why Moana 2 is on target to gross more than a billion dollars worldwide (it’s already made $400m [more…]
Wish it away: will the live-action Snow White be a new low for Disney?
Here are two things that recently happened in very quick succession: my oldest son opened his laptop and said: “Daddy! There’s a new Snow White [more…]
Brazil film portraying notorious crime during dictatorship strikes chord: ‘It hasn’t been overcome’
They came for Rubens Paiva one Wednesday lunchtime in January 1971, barging into his beachfront home in Rio and carting him off – to where [more…]
‘A dancer dances, even with replaced hips and scoliosis’: only one actor can play Liza Minnelli
As the repeatedly stalled Madonna biopic has shown, it’s difficult to make a film about a real-life icon, especially when the icon in question has [more…]
National Anthem review – dreamy study of queer rodeo riders making hay while the sun shines
Director Luke Gilford’s first feature-length work (after some shorts and music videos) shares aesthetic genetic material with his photographic book and exhibition of the same [more…]
The Commander review – true story of patriotic heroism tries to avoid being political football
Here is a stolid second world war drama, directed by Edoardo de Angelis, taken from a patriotic true story of non-fascist Italian decency during the [more…]
‘I hope this haunts you’: Kate Winslet says Titanic-era body-shamers were ‘absolutely appalling’
Kate Winslet has broken down at the memory of being told she was overweight by journalists on the red carpet as a 22-year-old. Speaking on [more…]
Nocturnes review – entrancing film on how to study moths by night in the Himalayas
This extremely slow, meditative documentary about a scientist and her assistant studying moths in the eastern Himalayas can only be fully appreciated if it’s watched [more…]
