Category: Films
‘He made me feel I didn’t need to fit in’: readers’ tributes to David Lynch – and their most Lynchian photograph
‘My mother shooed me away so she could watch Twin Peaks’ View image in fullscreen I live in a forested part of the UK that [more…]
Stray Dog/High and Low review – Kurosawa lifts crime drama to astonishing new peaks
Akira Kurosawa’s scalding 1949 cop thriller Stray Dog (★★★★★), with its extended closeup shot of a mad dog snarling into the camera over the opening [more…]
‘I will fall over’: Judi Dench says worsening eyesight means she can’t go out alone
Judi Dench has said she can no longer attend events or go out alone due to her deteriorating eyesight, saying she now needs someone to [more…]
I’m just Kenobi: Ryan Gosling set to join Star Wars franchise in as-yet-untitled movie
Ryan Gosling is to become the newest addition to the Star Wars universe after news emerged that he will star in an as-yet-untitled franchise movie [more…]
Presence review – Soderbergh’s ghost’s-eye movie plays it cool with an unhappy family
Steven Soderbergh has made a ghost story with a screenplay from Hollywood veteran David Koepp. It sticks to a single location – the haunted family [more…]
‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown
‘They got his green polka-dot blouse right’ Richard Williams, biographer If you’re the sort of Bob Dylan fan who knows stuff like the fate of [more…]
Vomiting! Fainting! Heart attacks! How dangerous can it be to watch a movie?
Every new Mission: Impossible film comes with a task that is, well, quite difficult. This is a film franchise propelled by its set pieces, and [more…]
Up the River With Acid review – intimate, abstract portrait of a father’s dementia
Horst is an ageing academic who has lived a full life, enriched by learning, teaching and love; now his son, film-maker Harald Hutter, has decided [more…]
Into the Deep review – Richard Dreyfuss brings the meaning to smugglers v sharks thriller
This pulpy yet weirdly woo-woo nautical thriller sets good-guy treasure hunters on a collision course with drug smugglers (bad guys) and great white sharks (morally [more…]
Are you being watched? Soderbergh’s ghost voyeur movie taps strange truths
Steven Soderbergh’s new film Presence this week heralds the return of a cinematic technique familiar to many fans of scary movies: the point-of-view shot. Viewing [more…]
