Category: Films
Pedro Almodóvar and Jacques Audiard lead European Film Awards nominations
A genre-bending musical about a trans cartel boss and a Spanish veteran director’s English-language debut lead the nominations for this year’s European Film Awards, with [more…]
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers review – blockbuster portrait of a thoughtful master
There’s a steepled-fingers argument to be had about whether live-event or gallery movies can ever compare to the thrill of seeing things for real and, [more…]
Kneecap leads nominations for British independent film awards
Belfast-set rap comedy Kneecap has emerged as the frontrunner in the British independent film awards, after it picked up 14 nominations to lead the field [more…]
Bookworm review – father-daughter heartwarmer casts a spell on failed magician Elijah Wood
Elijah Wood is reunited with the rugged New Zealand landscape in this father-daughter comedy, a gentle heartwarmer with a quirky sense of humour. It makes [more…]
‘Everybody told me not to do it’: can a movie shift a presidential election?
Donald Trump was an angry man. “It’s a cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job, put out right before the 2024 Presidential Election, to try [more…]
The Problem with People review – old-country lark takes on blarney-fuelled family feud
Never mind people. The problem with this comedy is the cliches. It could not be more Irish if it was dropped into a pint of [more…]
I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film
In the hit 1990 film The Krays, the East End gangsters were portrayed as “identical twins who rose from poverty to power”, “from obscurity to [more…]
‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content
In an era when social media has turned us all into products to promote, Keke Palmer is the whole damn corporation. As a one-woman multimedia, [more…]
Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school
Bill Nighy once stole the complete works of William Shakespeare from a library to help him get into drama school – but says he now [more…]
Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names
Opening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-called Cop Universe envisioned by producer-director Rohit [more…]
