Category: Films
Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening
Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have resigned as patrons of the Phoenix cinema in London in protest over the venue hosting an Israeli state-sponsored film [more…]
Jane Asher: ‘Would I do another nude scene? Never say never!’
If you were going to bake a Jane Asher cake that best summed you up, what would you bake and how would you decorate it? [more…]
Sorry Seth Rogen, but if cinemas are the new museums, the movies really are in trouble | Stuart Heritage
Sometimes there is nothing so depressing as reassurance. Seth Rogen is currently making a Larry Sanders-style comedy for Apple TV+ entitled The Studio, in which [more…]
Hit Man review – Richard Linklater’s thoroughly entertaining fake-killer caper
For this thoroughly entertaining comedy thriller, Richard Linklater finds the distinctive and weirdly uncomplicated register of sunny geniality that he so often gives us – [more…]
Grand Tour review – engaged couple’s sweet, strange colonial era hide-and-seek
Once again, Portuguese auteur Miguel Gomes delivers a film in which the most complex sophistication coexists with innocence and charm. It is at once very [more…]
Parthenope review – Paolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody
Paolo Sorrentino, for over 20 years one of the most vibrant and distinctive film-makers, is coming close to self-parody with this new film, which conceitedly [more…]
‘This garbage is pure fiction’: when subjects hit back at their biopics
More than any film at this year’s Cannes film festival – more than Megalopolis or that film where Demi Moore pushes Margaret Qualley’s face out [more…]
In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair
Pakistan’s patriarchal society is a too credible source of horror in this promising feature debut from Canadian-Pakistani writer/director Zarrar Khan, whose gallery of violent, predatory [more…]
The Garfield Movie review – foul feline origin tale is littered with product placement
There’s not that much to Garfield. Understanding the orange tabby of funny-pages repute is pretty simple: he has a set of integral, inalienable traits – [more…]
Pandemonium review – wintry gloom as ghost of dead driver meets the biker he killed
This Stygian jolly, in which dumbstruck driver Nathan (Hugo Dillon) finds himself out of the mortal coil after colliding with a motorcycle, has some of [more…]
