Category: Films
Mikey Madison: from Tarantino bit part to hot tip for an Oscar playing a sex worker
You know what it’s like: you’ve ordered an important package, but you can’t be at home when it’s delivered so you ask a friend to [more…]
Before superhero movies, directors were masters of the universe – now you can find them cowering in their trailers
When the wheels are coming off, there is no more exquisite humiliation that can be visited upon an adult human than being the director of a big-budget [more…]
‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures
What thoughts would go through the mind of a king exiled from his country for more than a century? What if that monarch took the [more…]
‘You can see the money on screen’: why Hollywood is betting on Gladiator II not being another Folie à Deux
An actual-scale model of the Colosseum, flooded and filled with longboats. A two-tonne, eight-wheeled, lifesize rhino that can spin, snarl, wag its head and do [more…]
‘Really speaks to sex workers’: can Anora help humanise a degraded profession?
In Anora, a wilful young woman engaged in sex work is swept up in a Cinderella story. Anora, or Ani as everyone calls the titular [more…]
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin review – moving tale of disabled gamer’s digital double life
It’s probably just an accident of scheduling, but this deeply affecting documentary is arriving just when there’s a debate raging at the school gates about [more…]
‘Madonna, please. It’s only a film. Be happy!’ The star of Emilia Pérez on transitioning at 46 and making icons cry
When Madonna posted an image of the Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón on Instagram recently, the word she scrawled above it in vivid pink letters [more…]
Mitzi Gaynor, dancer and actor from South Pacific, dies aged 93
Mitzi Gaynor, the dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of South Pacific and appeared in other musicals with Bing [more…]
Smile 2 review – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune
When Smile, an original low-budget horror movie, became a surprise smash hit in 2022, it was a success story that was easier to admire than [more…]
Alvin Rakoff, veteran director of British TV and film, dies aged 97
Alvin Rakoff, prolific director and producer of scores of film and TV productions including Requiem for a Heavyweight, Passport to Shame and A Dance to [more…]
