Category: Films
Irena’s Vow review – the extraordinary tale of a real-life Holocaust rescuer
Here is an extraordinary true-life tale. For more than two years during the second world war, a teenager named Irene Gut kept 12 Polish Jews [more…]
Snow White’s sleepy start at US box office buoyed by Republican voters
Dogged by politically inspired controversy for months, Disney’s new version of Snow White recorded a disappointing $43m (£33.3m) on its first weekend at the North [more…]
Samuel L Jackson on shark thriller Deep Blue Sea: ‘I’ve had many deaths – but everyone remembers this one’
Samuel L Jackson, played CEO Russell Franklin I’d always wanted to be killed in a movie by something big that was chasing me. I missed [more…]
David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
David Cronenberg has suggested the AI controversy over Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent in The Brutalist was an issue manufactured by the campaign of a rival [more…]
‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama
Anyone who visited the Rainforest Cafe, a now defunct Piccadilly Circus tourist trap serving overpriced burgers among plastic foliage and animatronic wildlife, may have met [more…]
A sinner, a killer and a very controversial erection: has director Alain Guiraudie surpassed Stranger By the Lake?
There’s a wonderfully frank clifftop scene in Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie’s new rural thriller, in which a priest seems to give absolution to a murderer. Not [more…]
La Cocina review – Rooney Mara gets stuck in New York restaurant kitchen drama
Here is a strangely exhausting movie, quaintly imagining the frenzied atmosphere of a New York restaurant kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers, full [more…]
Gérard Depardieu to appear in Paris court over sexual assault allegations
Gérard Depardieu will become the most high-profile French person to stand trial on #MeToo abuse allegations when he appears in a Paris court on Monday. [more…]
Seth Rogen on going from onscreen slacker to studio boss: ‘People really do scream at each other in Hollywood’
Seth Rogen is itemising all the ways in which, when he’s producing a film or TV show, he’s inclined to agonise about his contribution. “Are my [more…]
Harry Potter and Spider-Man producers lined up by Amazon to oversee Bond franchise
Amazon is lining up Harry Potter’s David Heyman and Spider-Man’s Amy Pascal to oversee the James Bond franchise for its studio MGM. In news first [more…]
