Category: Films
D Is for Distance review – tender portrait of parents battling for their son’s medication
That uniquely valuable British writer and independent film-maker Chris Petit, creator of downbeat classics such as Radio On from 1979 and An Unsuitable Job for [more…]
Is it time to stop bashing Bridget Jones? Hapless everywoman has evolved – and so have we
Bridget Jones is back. The fabled diary (probably a Surface Pro now) has snapped back open. The cigarettes are doubtless replaced by a Vaporesso vape. [more…]
Hayley Atwell on theatre, Tom Cruise and the tabloids: ‘I’ve reached the point where I’m OK if I’m not liked’
Before meeting Hayley Atwell, I am shown to an empty dressing room down the corridor from where she is rehearsing in London for her upcoming [more…]
Mark Kermode on… David Lynch, a one-off visionary who was also incredibly funny
In January 1997, I went to Paris to interview the great American surrealist film-maker David Lynch, who died at the end of last month aged [more…]
Grumpy Harrison Ford, a mystery asterisk and AI gone wild: everything from Disney’s new slate presentation
There are moments in life when you expect to be confronted by greatness: hearing a live orchestra swell into the opening notes of John Williams’ [more…]
Companion review – empty sci-fi thriller short-circuits too quickly
Imagine, if you will, a skewed sci-fi reality that envisions a Black Mirror episode but for an entire movie? Can you even begin to grasp [more…]
Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones
Mark Darcy is dead. Bridget Jones fans have been grieving since 2013, when Helen Fielding’s third novel, Mad About the Boy, was published sans Bridget’s [more…]
You’re Cordially Invited review – Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell carry fun comedy
In the doldrums of January, with Hollywood gracelessly dumping its shoddiest films, one would have understandable scepticism over Amazon’s glossy wedding confection You’re Cordially Invited. [more…]
From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
On the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an [more…]
Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show
Even the superest superfan of the legendary US TV comedy show Saturday Night Live is going to struggle with the unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration of [more…]
