Category: Films

Wicked has faced more than its fair share of controversies since it was first announced; from the uproar over recasting the play’s leads, to fan-made [more…]

The journalist Tracy E Gilchrist had just four minutes with the Wicked actors Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – and she had to make them [more…]

Who knew that the laborious process of democracy, of simply voting over and over again, could be so exciting and so amusing? Edward Berger’s drama [more…]

My grandfather Barrie Ellis-Jones, who has died of cancer aged 84, had a successful career in European film, culminating in becoming executive director of the [more…]

In the spring of 1951, Humphrey Bogart flew across the Atlantic to make The African Queen, John Huston’s classic Technicolor yarn about an odd couple [more…]

The return of Lindsay Lohan, redefining herself as movie star rather than tabloid joke, coincided with Netflix’s annual rebrand as home of cheap and cheerful [more…]

Sharon Stone has hit out against the “extraordinary naivety” she feels has steered the US into a period of “ignorant, arrogant adolescence”. In a panel [more…]

Paddington and Wallace & Gromit have raised the bar very high for family comedies – at least partly, of course, due to the inspiration of [more…]

The mango taste is bittersweet in this documentary-memoir of family pain and secrets from film-maker Chloe Abrahams. Using a small digital videocamera and her smartphone, [more…]

Very few people can honestly claim to have changed the direction of comedy, but Jim Abrahams – who died this week – is one of [more…]