Category: Films
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin review – moving tale of disabled gamer’s digital double life
It’s probably just an accident of scheduling, but this deeply affecting documentary is arriving just when there’s a debate raging at the school gates about [more…]
‘Madonna, please. It’s only a film. Be happy!’ The star of Emilia Pérez on transitioning at 46 and making icons cry
When Madonna posted an image of the Spanish actor Karla Sofía Gascón on Instagram recently, the word she scrawled above it in vivid pink letters [more…]
Mitzi Gaynor, dancer and actor from South Pacific, dies aged 93
Mitzi Gaynor, the dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of South Pacific and appeared in other musicals with Bing [more…]
Smile 2 review – gory pop star horror sequel sings a familiar tune
When Smile, an original low-budget horror movie, became a surprise smash hit in 2022, it was a success story that was easier to admire than [more…]
Alvin Rakoff, veteran director of British TV and film, dies aged 97
Alvin Rakoff, prolific director and producer of scores of film and TV productions including Requiem for a Heavyweight, Passport to Shame and A Dance to [more…]
Good news: there’s a new Horrible History DVD boxset out. Bad news: your children may not find it funny
Great news, parents! In just a few short weeks, a new Horrible History DVD will be released. Imagine the look of absolute delight on the [more…]
Carrie review – Brian De Palma’s horror masterpiece is a death metal spectacle of carnage
Brian De Palma’s insouciantly horrible masterpiece from 1976, adapted from the novel by Stephen King, and mixing in tropes and tricks from Hitchcock’s Psycho, is [more…]
Are you not entertained? The XVIII best films about the Romans – ranked!
View image in fullscreen XVIII. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) In this heavy-going British Technicolor adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play, Claude Rains’s oddly relaxed Julius [more…]
The Rubber-Keyed Wonder: The Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum review – glory and geekery
You’ll need a pretty high geek tolerance level for this very detailed and specialised account of Sir Clive Sinclair’s bestselling ZX Spectrum home computer, whose [more…]
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things review – lovingly eccentric ode to a forgotten abstract painter
A rogue preposition in the title betrays this film’s distinctive, dartingly eccentric idiom: not “of deeper things” but “to deeper things”. It is about neglected [more…]
