Category: Films
Turkish film festival scrapped over Daniel Craig gay drama censorship
Organisers of an Istanbul film festival announced its cancellation on Thursday to protest against a local authority ban on the screening of Queer, a drama [more…]
Elizabeth Hurley: ‘If I were Queen, I’d outlaw air fresheners in cars and ban prison for white-collar criminals’
Why haven’t you done more comedy? You were effortlessly hilarious in Austin Powers. Haigin88 Why, thank you! I learned from the best playing opposite Mike [more…]
The Piano Lesson review – Washington family get stuck into August Wilson’s powerful play
Eight years ago, as producer-director and star, Denzel Washington gave us an intelligent and deeply felt film version of August Wilson’s stage play Fences, a [more…]
Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego
Pharrell Williams’s life … only it’s Lego. A fun idea – like Muhammad Ali in Etch-a-Sketch or Harry and Meghan with Thunderbirds puppets. This is [more…]
Llama drama and fresco textures: unseen scenes from The Colour of Pomegranates – in pictures
In a preface to his script, Parajanov made it clear that his film was not just about the life of Sayat Nova, but to evoke [more…]
Ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz up for auction 20 years after theft
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz are on the auction block nearly two decades after a thief [more…]
‘I’m going to sue the living pants off them’: AI’s big legal showdown – and what it means for Dr Strange’s hair
The first piece of AI-generated video I ever made moved me to tears – tears of laughter. Given the chance to fool around with Runway [more…]
Spanx, fizz and Travel Scrabble: 30 years of friendship with Maggie Smith
I first met Maggie through my husband, Robert Fox, the film and theatre producer. He’d first met her in 1974, when he was 22 and [more…]
Holiday Twist review – could this be the worst Christmas movie ever?
It’s harder than you might think to find movies without any redeeming features, but occasionally they do come along. Terrible writing, horrible direction, an appalling [more…]
Tom Hanks describes film critics using an expletive
Tom Hanks has described film critics as “cocksuckers” in a jokey rant during an interview with Conan O’Brien. Hanks was appearing on O’Brien’s podcast Conan [more…]
