Category: Films
Cannes 2024 week two roundup – scuffles, screwballs and spellbinders
“Which film is this?” the burly US critic asks twice, as the house lights go down inside the Bazin cinema. The first time he’s half-joking, [more…]
Super Size Me: the film that sounded a fast-food alarm in America
When a person shuffles off their mortal coil, they count themselves lucky to have some quantifiable or tangible expression of their legacy – an accomplishment [more…]
Cut! Building of new UK film and TV studios on hold after pandemic streaming boom
The latest series of the Devil’s Hour starring Peter Capaldi and Jessica Raine may be a supernatural thriller but it is being filmed in more [more…]
Dabney Coleman obituary
In the 1980 office comedy hit film 9 to 5, Jane Fonda, as one of three long-suffering office workers subjected to endless harassment by their [more…]
Super Size Me was a terrific cheeky stunt – small wonder Morgan Spurlock never matched it
Twenty years ago, no one was a bigger beneficiary of the Michael Moore documentary boom than gonzo doc comic Morgan Spurlock who royally punk’d the [more…]
The Seed of the Sacred Fig review – Mohammad Rasoulof’s arresting tale of violence and paranoia in Iran
Mohammad Rasoulof is a fugitive Iranian director and dissident wanted by the police in his own country, where he has received a long prison sentence [more…]
Post your questions for Harry Hill
Originally a doctor and still a registered medical practitioner, Harry Hill cemented his career as a spectacle-wearing, large-collared standup by winning the Perrier Best Newcomer [more…]
The most political apolitical festival ever? Here’s how Cannes 2024 went – and who will win
This was the Cannes that was supposed to be a break from politics, from campaigning and from causes – aside from the #MeToo-themed short film [more…]
All We Imagine As Light review – dreamlike and gentle modern Mumbai tale is a triumph
There is a freshness and emotional clarity in Payal Kapadia’s Cannes competition selection, an enriching humanity and gentleness which coexist with fervent, languorous eroticism and [more…]
‘Of course, one wants orgasmic life’: Bruce Joel Rubin on Ghost, gay identity and goldfish
When Bruce Joel Rubin was writing Ghost, he didn’t think about the Oscars it might win (two, including one for him) or the money it [more…]