Category: Films
‘After the shoot, we had a party in a slaughterhouse’: horror movies’ creepiest kids reveal all
When Danielle Keaton was seven, her homework was to open her eyes as wide as possible and stare. She had just secured a role in [more…]
Juror #2 review – Clint Eastwood puts Nicholas Hoult in court … and an unusual pickle
What are the chances, eh? First you get picked for jury duty even though your pregnant wife might deliver your child before you can deliver [more…]
This Search for Meaning review – slick reminder of radical rockers Placebo
This slick unrevealing music documentary about alt rockers Placebo highlights the potential drawbacks of making a film about a band decades after their first flush. [more…]
Midas Man review – Jacob Fortune-Lloyd is heartfelt as Beatles’ kingmaker
British actor Jacob Fortune-Lloyd stars as the Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein in this uneven but well-meaning biopic. The screenplay by Brigit Grant and Jonathan Wakeham [more…]
Quentin Tarantino praises flop Joker sequel: ‘I really, really liked it’
Quentin Tarantino has come out in support of the critical and commercial flop Joker: Folie à Deux. The writer-director sang the musical sequel’s praises during [more…]
Teri Garr, actor from Tootsie and Friends, dies aged 79
Teri Garr, the actor known for roles in Tootsie, Young Frankenstein and Friends, has died at the age of 79. Garr died of multiple sclerosis, [more…]
Here review – cursed Forrest Gump reunion is a total horror show
A swirl of concern and outright fear has long been following Robert Zemeckis’s unusual big bet Here, a 30-year reunion for his Forrest Gump co-stars [more…]
Freedom (Libre) review – Lucas Bravo oozes charisma as gentleman robber
Fast-rising French star Lucas Bravo, best known so far for playing love interest chef Gabriel in the series Emily in Paris, plays polite armed robber [more…]
Birth at 20: Jonathan Glazer’s magnificent, misunderstood masterpiece
It’s the score that hooks you first in Birth: that light, sprightly, slightly anxious jitter of woodwind that trills over the film’s opening shot, as [more…]
From Anna Kendrick to Dev Patel – how easy is it for actors to direct themselves?
Since the very first directorial cameos – George Méliès’ sorcerer-like appearances in The Vanishing Lady and Playing Cards in the 1890s – directors have often [more…]
