Category: Films
The Platform 2 review – Netflix dystopian horror sequel falls off
Say this for The Platform 2: it gets right to it. Without so much of a recap of its predecessor – a sci-fi horror parable [more…]
Alice Lowe: ‘I’ve always gotten mouthy about sexism and it hasn’t really helped my career’
‘I had killed a lot of people in other films,” says Alice Lowe, whose first feature, 2016’s Prevenge, saw her play a pregnant serial killer. [more…]
Give us DC’s Deathstroke and Bane movie – it can’t be worse than Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Sometimes the truth really does feel stranger than fiction. Bring on the news this week that DC is planning a movie about Deathstroke and Bane, [more…]
‘Editing it was like exposure therapy’: Shiori Ito, the reluctant face of Japan’s #MeToo movement
When Shiori Ito arranged to meet Noriyuki Yamaguchi for dinner at a Tokyo izakaya (bar) in April 2015, she was hoping for advice on her [more…]
Hold Your Breath review – Sarah Paulson gets lost in scattered horror
An award-winning actor playing a fiercely, even frighteningly, protective mother guarding her two children from an unspecified malevolence in a remote home. No, I’m not [more…]
A live-action version of Rugrats with CGI babies sounds nightmarish … and kind of interesting | Stuart Heritage
Not so long ago, the trailer for next year’s Minecraft movie seemed to go out of its way to become the single ugliest thing ever [more…]
Time tunnels, bathing in blood and wonton soup: movies about the search for eternal youth – ranked!
10. The Wasp Woman (1959) The ageing face of a cosmetics CEO (the tragic Susan Cabot in her final film role) is blamed for falling [more…]
Young Frankenstein review – Mel Brooks monster comedy is wonderfully alive as ever
Mel Brooks’s outrageously broad and deliriously silly black-and-white comedy, co-written with its neurotically bequiffed star Gene Wilder, is re-released for its 50th anniversary. Their lovingly [more…]
An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies
JB Priestley’s drawing-room melodrama of Edwardian guilt and fear is rereleased for its 70th anniversary; it is an intricate clockwork mechanism ticking inexorably to the [more…]
The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama
It takes a certain type of person to have a dog in New York City, let alone a 180lb, questionably behaved one. Iris, played with [more…]
