Category: Films
Kulej. Dwie Strony Medalu review – glossy boxing biopic is Poland’s answer to Raging Bull
This is a glossily shot but overlong biopic of two-time Olympic gold-winning boxer Jerzy Kulej that tries to position him as a kind of errant [more…]
Haunted Ulster Live review – mock Halloween broadcast evokes the spectre of Ghostwatch
On Halloween in 1992, the BBC spooked the nation with the mockumentary Ghostwatch, an apparently live broadcast from Britain’s most haunted house. Despite its being [more…]
‘An incredible echo of today’: Kevin Macdonald on his film about John Lennon and Yoko Ono
From sit-ins for peace to avant-garde happenings and covert surveillance of revolutionary sympathies, the world of John Lennon and Yoko Ono can seem removed from [more…]
‘I need to feel alive’: Julianne Moore on family, friendship and mortality
Yesterday Julianne Moore was on the subway in New York, listening discreetly to strangers. “I was sitting there and I heard one woman say, ‘Well, [more…]
Endurance review – search for Shackleton’s Antarctic wreck overshadowed by history
Here is a frustrating film that tries to tell two stories at once, and succeeds with neither. It’s the story of explorer Ernest Shackleton’s epic [more…]
Jigra review – Alia Bhatt is lethal and luminous in sibling jailbreak thriller
Director Vasan Bala has a knack for capturing the way some humans view others as disposable, as lives to spend for power. In Bala’s new [more…]
Al Pacino on the inside story of The Godfather: ‘I was told, you’re not cutting it’
One day in the middle of the afternoon, I got a phone call. On the other end of the line, I heard the name and [more…]
Streaming: Kneecap and the best hip-hop movies
The list of hip-hop acts who have starred in their own biopic is a short one, and it has perhaps its unlikeliest entry in Kneecap. [more…]
No time to film: are James Bond’s Hollywood paymasters holding out for a gen-Z 007?
Like a seasoned croupier brushing the felt off everyone’s chips, Amazon MGM Studios boss Jennifer Salke revealed this week in an interview with the Guardian [more…]
‘It feels very personal’: Anna Kendrick on coercion, not wanting children and making a movie about dating a killer
This may be the year of the childless cat lady, but Anna Kendrick isn’t ready to team up with Taylor Swift just yet. “I don’t [more…]
