Category: Films
‘To me, to uzi’: why Paul Chuckle as a gangster isn’t such a dramatic career change
Next year a British gangster film will be released, entitled Fall to the Top. Its plot concerns a frustrated labourer who becomes a drug dealer [more…]
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 3 – The Zone of Interest
The Zone of Interest, a British, American and Polish production directed by Jonathan Glazer, begins with a scene of bucolic bliss: a German-speaking family picnicking [more…]
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl review – an unmissable, ingenious Christmas treat
Forget Tom Cruise riding his motorbike off a cliff in Mission: Impossible. Wallace and Gromit are on a comfy narrowboat teetering on the edge of [more…]
‘Very disheartened’: trans actor Chanel Stewart speaks out as Disney changes her Pixar character to be cisgender
An upcoming Pixar animated television series will no longer include a transgender teenager after Disney removed dialogue that referenced the character’s gender identity. Win or [more…]
Mufasa: The Lion King review – storytelling takes pride of place in punchy origin tale
How did Scar, the wicked uncle from The Lion King voiced by Jeremy Irons, get to be so … well … wicked? How is it [more…]
Can the Russos find a good reason for Chris Evans’s return to Marvel?
Ever wondered what the multiverse might look like if Marvel just used it to bring back popular superheroes the studio regrets writing off? Welcome to [more…]
Richard E Grant’s renaissance is a pleasure to watch – and it all began with Withnail and I
If you like what Richard E Grant is doing now – in series such as The Franchise and films like Can You Ever Forgive Me? [more…]
Marisa Paredes, Almodóvar star and legend of Spanish cinema, dies aged 78
The award-winning Spanish actor Marisa Paredes, best known to international audiences for her work with directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto [more…]
Dolphin Boy review – human baby lives under the sea in watery kids animation
‘Can I keep it, mommy?” It’s likely that even very small kids will smell something fishy about this family adventure from Iranian animator Mohammad Kheirandish. [more…]
Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 4 – All We Imagine As Light
‘Evening is my favourite time of the day” says a character in All We Imagine As Light, as twilight descends on Mumbai – it’s when [more…]