Category: Films
Post your questions for Claes Bang
Claes Bang (“Claes” rhymes with “face”, in case you were wondering) only became an actor by chance, after he was persuaded to join a production [more…]
Andrew Garfield on weepie rom-com We Live in Time: ‘I love that this film wears its heart on its sleeve’
It’s no spoiler to say that We Live in Time is a tearjerker. It begins with the late-stage cancer diagnosis of its female lead, Almut [more…]
‘Are we the first generation that won’t die?’: Bryan Johnson on his controversial lifestyle
Bryan Johnson, the biohacking centimillionaire who made a fortune selling payment apps, knows what his biggest online skeptics have been saying about him ever since [more…]
Aaron Taylor-Johnson: ‘I couldn’t understand why Tom Ford wanted me to play a serial-killer rapist’
How do you keep yourself so springy? I’d love to know more about whatever it is that has made you so physically capable. BerniceTheCat As [more…]
Canceling the apocalypse? What can we learn from films set in 2025
The year 2025: It certainly has that futuristic ring, doesn’t it? Not round enough to come across overly tidy, not odd enough to appear chosen [more…]
Shyam Benegal obituary
The Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping of independently minded and [more…]
Rocco and His Brothers review – Luchino Visconti’s operatically magnificent family epic
‘If only we had never left home … but it was our destiny.” The speaker is Rocco, played by Alain Delon – coltishly beautiful and [more…]
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni file lawsuits over It Ends With Us
The actor Blake Lively has sued the director of It Ends With Us, Justin Baldoni, and several others associated with the film, alleging harassment and [more…]
We Live in Time review – romance blossoms for Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield
There are endearing, intelligent and forthright performances here from Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield, who have a tender chemistry in this sensitive if, for me, [more…]
Stockholm Bloodbath review – like Game of Thrones scripted by Guy Ritchie
‘A great deal of this actually happened,” reads the title card at the start of this action-packed historical epic. Possibly. But it’s unlikely that anyone [more…]
