Category: Films
Auteurs assemble! Why 2025 offers a banquet of movies by cinema’s great creators
Barbenheimer. Gladicked. Deadpool & Wonkarine. The big movies of the past couple of years have been cash-splash smashes by mainstream directors loudly airing strong authorial [more…]
Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025
Australian cinema in 2025 will offer plenty of tasty treats, in a variety of genres and styles. In addition to the films on this list, [more…]
Kate Beckinsale says she has been ‘assaulted’ and ‘felt up’ on film sets
Kate Beckinsale, the British star of films such as Love & Friendship, Canary Black and the Underworld series, has posted a video on social media [more…]
Guardian writers on their ultimate feelgood movies: ‘For when humanity lets me down’
“Feelgood” movies are often thought of as big-hearted romantic comedies, comforting classics, or childhood favourites that still hold up decades later. In our series, My [more…]
Toyboys, divas and Bridget Jones: the films to look forward to in 2025
We Live In Time We’re overdue a genuinely good romantic-comedy with a few drops of weepie thrown in. This could be it. Screenwriter Nick Payne [more…]
Don Fairservice obituary
My friend Don Fairservice, who has died aged 92, was a creative film editor and film-maker. Active in his youth as an actor and set [more…]
Olivia Hussey obituary
When Franco Zeffirelli’s film version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was released in 1968, it made the two lead actors, Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, [more…]
Jack Bond obituary
The Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dalí refused to cooperate with anyone wanting to make a film about him – until 1965, when he was finally [more…]
Father of the Bride and Baby Boom director Charles Shyer dies aged 83
Charles Shyer, the director of Father of the Bride and Baby Boom, who formed a successful comedy film-making partnership with his then wife Nancy Meyers, [more…]
Diabel review – canine sidekick along for ride as dour war veteran biffs bad guys
Here is a film from Poland that is proof that when a macho action hero has a canine sidekick, it makes him at least 64% [more…]