Category: Films

Thanks to the unprecedented critical and commercial success of The Substance, horror is having a rare moment of recognition. In fact, you’d be willing to [more…]

20. Pushing Tin (1999) Cate Blanchett played a pretty generic “wife” role in this interesting, somewhat forgotten US comedy about air traffic controllers from director [more…]

Punching up is a valuable rule of thumb for comedians. When it comes to film and TV, however, few would insist on a blanket rule [more…]

A Hollywood veteran’s biopic about an anti-Nazi resistance martyr, which was nearly engulfed by the Trump-era culture wars during its US release, is on its [more…]

The late Dutch actor Rutger Hauer is probably still best known for his extraordinary turn as rebel replicant Roy Batty in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, [more…]

Haitian film-maker Raoul Peck won an Oscar nomination for his 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro about James Baldwin, whose writings were voiced by [more…]

It’s so soon after this year’s Oscars ceremony that there may still be parties going on and with Anora, a film largely set in the [more…]

Picture this. It’s 1969. Two young hackers, Martin and Cosmo, have broken into a government facility. They’re cocky little idealists but they’re principled, too; they [more…]

Viewership for the telecast of this year’s Oscars ceremony was down 7% from 2024, according to figures from Nielsen. After three consecutive years of growth, [more…]