Category: Films
‘Chaos is great. This time it went over the top’: Andrea Arnold and Robbie Ryan on 21 years of film and friendship
Andrea Arnold and Robbie Ryan take the corner table at their favourite Soho cafe. The director and cinematographer have loved this greasy-spoon joint for years. [more…]
Who should play Patrick Bateman in the new American Psycho?
Earlier this week it was announced that Luca Guadagnino was in final negotiations to direct a new adaptation of American Psycho, instantly igniting an online [more…]
‘I never really learned anything from anybody’: Isabelle Huppert on 50 years in film
François Ozon is a great director and 8 Women was a fantastic film. What brought you to work with him again for The Crime Is [more…]
Share your experience of being a runner for film or TV
We would like to find out more about people’s experience of being a production runner, after Richard E Grant said they are underappreciated. Whether you [more…]
Venom: The Last Dance review – messy sequel ends series with a shrug
The recent, long-awaited, cratering of the superhero movie (with a notable Deadpool-sized exception) has led to a mad scramble – release dates pushed, marketing strategies [more…]
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation
This bumpy and chaotic family film is centred around a child who feels different because she’s normal. There are notes of the Addams family and [more…]
A Nightmare on Elm Street review – jauntily outrageous slasher is still cheerfully crass
With his hat, claw glove and dodgy knitwear, Freddy Krueger gifted the world’s children an easy costume for Halloween and – given the novelisations – [more…]
Idris Elba to move to Africa ‘to bolster the film industry’
Idris Elba has said he is planning to move to Africa as part of his plans to bolster the sub-Saharan film industry, saying “it’s going [more…]
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – still blowing minds after 50 years
Bruce Springsteen fans get liner notes of the most luxurious, informed and immersive kind with this documentary by longtime Springsteen chronicler Thom Zimny, who charts [more…]
Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify
‘The field … it’s covered in blood!” This is the young visionary rabbit Fiver, voiced by Richard Briers, in the British animation from 1978 by [more…]
