Category: Films
Paul McCartney and Wings: One Hand Clapping review – restored rockumentary is pure pleasure
I’m amazed, and there’s no maybe about it. Paul McCartney and Wings star in this engrossing hour-long documentary (or, if you will, rockumentary) shot on [more…]
Dragonkeeper review – kids’ animation in which a girl must save China’s last fire breathers
Bill Nighy’s distinctive, rather wonderful, Bill Nighy-ness is perfect in so many roles, especially those requiring an expensive lounge suit and a roguish arch of [more…]
The Fall review – startling imagery abounds in Tarsem Singh’s cult Gilliamesque epic
Tarsem Singh’s indulgent epic, produced by Spike Jonze and David Fincher, was little seen on its original release in 2006, and now gets a rerelease [more…]
Bill Douglas: My Best Friend review – inspirational and tender portrait of a brilliant director
With enormous warmth, film-maker Jack Archer has made an intimate documentary about Peter Jewell, the London social worker who was also the lifelong best friend, [more…]
On Falling review – the strip mining of an online warehouse worker’s sanity
The human cost of the online convenience shopping revolution is, arguably, still to be properly addressed in cinema or any other art form. Chloé Zhao’s [more…]
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to lead a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell. The Oscar winner, known for Promising Young [more…]
Spanish police arrest five people over fake Brad Pitt scam
Spanish police have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of €325,000 (£271,000) by posing as the Hollywood star Brad Pitt online. The [more…]
Post your questions for Isabelle Huppert
France has quite a few grandes dames of cinema, with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Adjani all very much in the game. But none [more…]
Escape review – blonds have much less fun in sleazy throwback survival horror
For all its effective use of modern drone cinematography, this survival horror is very much a throwback to the video nasties of the 1980s. The [more…]
Shocks delivered: why pregnancy body horror is on the rise
Nosebleeds, a metallic taste in the mouth, feet that go up a whole size the side effects of pregnancy are their own kind of body [more…]
