Category: Films
‘It took a while, but I’m here’: Denzel Washington is baptised before his 70th birthday
Denzel Washington has become a minister after being baptised shortly before his 70th birthday, in a ceremony at a church in New York. The Oscar-winning [more…]
Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed [more…]
Invitation to a Murder review – florist-detective leads crime yarn that out-cosies Agatha Christie
Serviceable but underwhelming, this murder mystery is very old-school in every way, reminiscent of many an Agatha Christie page-turner and even more so of Christie’s [more…]
Detained review – Abbie Cornish is best thing in twisty noir that flirts with ridiculousness
When Rebecca (Abbie Cornish) wakes up handcuffed in a police interview room with no memory of how she got there, something feels off. The officers [more…]
A Man and a Camera review – doorstep prank movie is pass-agg psychological study
Dutch film-maker Guido Hendrikx has given us a funny but also somewhat slippery and disingenuous bit of pass-agg provocation, somewhere between documentary cinema and conceptual [more…]
Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’
‘Technically, I did my first film when I was two,” says Elle Fanning, which, at 26, makes her a youthful old-timer, already more than two [more…]
The Brutalist director Brady Corbet: ‘If you’re not daring to suck, you’re not doing much’
The Brutalist is a big, muscular American epic that pits the individual against the machine; the artist against the cogs and wheels of commerce. It [more…]
The Golden Globes gift bag contains gin, treadmills and a facelift – but there’s a catch
More than a fortnight before the ceremony, the big winner at this year’s Golden Globe awards may have already have been decided – although their [more…]
The Godfather Part II at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s sprawling masterpiece
Creatively speaking, 2024 was Francis Ford Coppola’s biggest year in ages. Not only did it see the release of his first movie in 13 years, [more…]
‘Love exists beyond death’: Andrew Scott on All of Us Strangers – and whether his character was dead
How does it feel to have been the star of the Guardian’s film of the year?You know what, it’s really wonderful. Thank you so much [more…]
