Category: Films
Basketball court, home cinema – but no booby traps: Home Alone house on sale for $5.25m
Cinema fans – and burglars – alert: the home made famous by 1990 film Home Alone is on the market, with a sale price of [more…]
Chief of Station review – perma-scowled Aaron Eckhart bids for Liam Neeson ‘geri-action’ market
Judging by his recent filmography, Aaron Eckhart is making a play for the Liam Neeson “geri-action” market. This latest thriller, directed by straight-to-streaming action kingpin [more…]
‘We deeply regret the distress’: cinema apologises for Richard Dreyfuss comments at Jaws screening
A cinema in Massachusetts has apologised to the audience at a special screening of Jaws and a Q&A with its star, Richard Dreyfuss, who reportedly [more…]
Moosa Lane review – loving cinematic bridge between two countries and cultures
Shot over the course of 15 years, Anita Mathal Hopland’s documentary provides a cinematic bridge between two countries. Born in Denmark to a Norwegian mother [more…]
Alien? Mission: Impossible? Toy Story? What is the greatest movie franchise ever?
Mission: Impossible View image in fullscreen When a blockbuster franchise is seven movies in (and counting), and the consensus choice for worst entry was directed [more…]
Little Monsters review – infuriatingly awful family film is worse than AI
Made in Russia in 2022, this animated flick has been dubbed in American English for global release, but it seems unlikely that it made much [more…]
Ciné-Guerrillas/Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels review – thoughtful and worthwhile
It’s well worth watching this pair of pensive documentaries by Mila Turajlić, which, through the person of Marshal Tito’s preferred cameraman Stevan Labudović, highlight and [more…]
Party like it’s 1999: 10 movies that encapsulate one of the greatest years for cinema
In 1999, cinemagoers flocked to watch The Talented Mr Ripley, in which Jude Law smoked cigarettes in a lazily buttoned linen shirt. The same year, [more…]
Anora is a vivacious Cannes victor and a fitting end to a radically romantic festival
This was a Cannes that turned out to be about love, and the Palme d’Or went to a love story that knocks down the whole [more…]
Anora, tale of a stripper who marries a Russian oligarch, wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
Anora, a tragi-comic modern-day Cinderella story about a stripper who marries a multimillionare, made by the American director Sean Baker, has won the coveted Palme [more…]
