Category: Films
Big knickers, bad decisions and old bats: Renée Zellweger on the return of Bridget Jones
Mark Darcy is dead. Bridget Jones fans have been grieving since 2013, when Helen Fielding’s third novel, Mad About the Boy, was published sans Bridget’s [more…]
You’re Cordially Invited review – Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell carry fun comedy
In the doldrums of January, with Hollywood gracelessly dumping its shoddiest films, one would have understandable scepticism over Amazon’s glossy wedding confection You’re Cordially Invited. [more…]
From Godard to Coppola, Van Sant to Anger, Marianne Faithfull was a dazzling magnet for film-makers
On the screen and also in life, Marianne Faithfull experienced something similar to her contemporary Anita Pallenberg – the condescension of being treated like an [more…]
Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show
Even the superest superfan of the legendary US TV comedy show Saturday Night Live is going to struggle with the unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration of [more…]
‘They don’t want you to see the slave labor’: a new film goes inside Alabama’s prisons
Floors streaked with blood, rat-infested cells, flooded hallways and routine beatings by officers – these are but some of the degrading conditions within Alabama state [more…]
Meryl Streep cut a car-sized hole in her garden fence to escape LA fires
The actor Meryl Streep made a dramatic escape from the fires which killed 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures across Los Angeles earlier [more…]
Post your questions for Ke Huy Quan
Comeback kids don’t come much more extraordinary – or well-loved – than Ke Huy Quan. After starring, aged 13, as Short Round in 1984’s Indiana [more…]
Backlash builds: why the architecture world hates The Brutalist
It has graced tea towels and cushions, mugs and socks, and spawned numerous Instagram accounts and coffee table books galore. Now brutalism, the once-maligned postwar [more…]
Luther: Never Too Much review – the mystery and brilliance of ‘love doctor’ Vandross
All of the mystery and certainty of love is carried in Luther Vandross’s radiant singing voice. On uptempo tracks he seems suffused with joy; on [more…]
‘A reminder that we can resist’: hard-hitting documentary takes aim at anti-trans rhetoric
A new documentary at the Sundance film festival delves into the fight to preserve access to gender-affirming care for minors via the US supreme court, [more…]
