Category: Films
The Woman in the Yard review – pared-back horror is Grandma’s Footsteps: The Movie
Sometimes a single image is enough to carry a film so far. This pared-down Blumhouse chiller opens with a brisk, detailed overview of the disarray [more…]
Boulder, Colorado, to be new home for the Sundance film festival
Boulder, Colorado, has been named as the new home for the Sundance film festival starting in 2027. The festival, which was started in 1978 by [more…]
Gérard Depardieu trial: prosecutor calls for 18-month suspended sentence
Gérard Depardieu should be found guilty of the “indisputable” sexual assault of a set decorator, as well as sexual assaults of an assistant film director, [more…]
Geoffrey Rush on Pirates, Pinter and pugs: ‘Just be happy we evolved on this bit of rock’
The Rule of Jenny Pen looks terrifying! Does the prospect of sudden ageing frighten you? BenderRodriguez It’s not sudden. I was in [King] Lear when [more…]
‘I was surprised how common it is’: the director of Sebastian on his controversial film about an author who enters sex work
Growing up in a small Finnish town close to the Russian border, Mikko Mäkelä knew he was gay from the age of 11. “I think [more…]
‘It was revenge for our movie’: Oscar winner says soldiers helped settlers attack him in West Bank
The Oscar-winning Palestinian film director Hamdan Ballal has said that Israeli settlers who attacked him were aided by two Israeli soldiers, who beat him with [more…]
Rust: first trailer for Alec Baldwin western appears after on-set shooting
The first trailer has emerged for the western Rust, the production that saw an on-set accident lead to the death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. [more…]
Woman tells court Gérard Depardieu groped her buttocks and breasts on set
The French actor Gérard Depardieu sexually assaulted an assistant director on three occasions while she was working with him on a film shoot, placing his [more…]
‘Porn is the most conservative business I was ever in’: behind the scenes at Café Flesh
You never forget your first visit to Café Flesh. Mine took place in June 1986: it was a month before my 15th birthday and I [more…]
The Stimming Pool review – film-makers on the autistic spectrum dive ingeniously into the uncanny
Here is an engaging docufictional experiment, an investigation into autism co-created by a group of young artists on the spectrum called the Neurocultures Collective. The [more…]
