Category: Films
‘It was revenge for our movie’: Oscar winner says soldiers helped settlers attack him in West Bank
The Oscar-winning Palestinian film director Hamdan Ballal has said that Israeli settlers who attacked him were aided by two Israeli soldiers, who beat him with [more…]
Rust: first trailer for Alec Baldwin western appears after on-set shooting
The first trailer has emerged for the western Rust, the production that saw an on-set accident lead to the death of the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. [more…]
Woman tells court Gérard Depardieu groped her buttocks and breasts on set
The French actor Gérard Depardieu sexually assaulted an assistant director on three occasions while she was working with him on a film shoot, placing his [more…]
‘Porn is the most conservative business I was ever in’: behind the scenes at Café Flesh
You never forget your first visit to Café Flesh. Mine took place in June 1986: it was a month before my 15th birthday and I [more…]
The Stimming Pool review – film-makers on the autistic spectrum dive ingeniously into the uncanny
Here is an engaging docufictional experiment, an investigation into autism co-created by a group of young artists on the spectrum called the Neurocultures Collective. The [more…]
Irena’s Vow review – the extraordinary tale of a real-life Holocaust rescuer
Here is an extraordinary true-life tale. For more than two years during the second world war, a teenager named Irene Gut kept 12 Polish Jews [more…]
Snow White’s sleepy start at US box office buoyed by Republican voters
Dogged by politically inspired controversy for months, Disney’s new version of Snow White recorded a disappointing $43m (£33.3m) on its first weekend at the North [more…]
Samuel L Jackson on shark thriller Deep Blue Sea: ‘I’ve had many deaths – but everyone remembers this one’
Samuel L Jackson, played CEO Russell Franklin I’d always wanted to be killed in a movie by something big that was chasing me. I missed [more…]
David Cronenberg says Brutalist AI controversy was a ‘campaign against’ the film by rival Oscar nominees
David Cronenberg has suggested the AI controversy over Adrien Brody’s Hungarian accent in The Brutalist was an issue manufactured by the campaign of a rival [more…]
‘A kitchen film with no food porn’: how Alonso Ruizpalacios sold Rooney Mara on his abortion drama
Anyone who visited the Rainforest Cafe, a now defunct Piccadilly Circus tourist trap serving overpriced burgers among plastic foliage and animatronic wildlife, may have met [more…]
