Category: Films
Better Man review – Robbie Williams becomes CGI chimp in surreal biopic
Robbie Williams – only he is a chimp! This is a pretty trad music biopic, coming with the accepted U-shaped narrative arc of humble beginnings, [more…]
The Order review – Jude Law does solid work in vehement account of white supremacists’ takedown
Justin Kurzel directs a workmanlike true-crime thriller about a real-life American white supremacist movement called the Order, which, in the 1980s, murdered Jewish radio journalist [more…]
Jack Bond, cult British director and Pet Shop Boys collaborator, dies aged 87
Jack Bond, a British film-maker who worked on a string of avant garde films in the 1960s and 70s with Jane Arden, and went on [more…]
Shyam Benegal, influential director of India’s ‘parallel cinema’, dies aged 90
Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian film-maker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died aged 90 [more…]
Twisters! Tennis! Transformations! The best movie moments of 2024
The transformation – Nightbitch View image in fullscreen Amy Adams’s canine transformation in Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch should be nothing we haven’t seen before. There is [more…]
Christopher Nolan’s next film announced as ‘mythic action epic’ The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan’s follow-up to Oppenheimer will be an adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey, it has been revealed. Hollywood studio Universal, which is backing the project, posted [more…]
How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies review – sad but sweet Thai inheritance tale
The title makes it sound like some goofy Brit crime comedy; in fact it’s a sweet, sad heart-warmer from Thailand, whose original title Lahn Mah, [more…]
Rippy review – kangaroo slasher bounces into Cocaine Bear territory
It is a horror movie truth universally acknowledged that if your killer bounces after its victims, you’d best play it for laughs. But that is [more…]
Blake Lively sees wide support in lawsuit against co-star Justin Baldoni
Blake Lively is picking up broad support in her battle against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, days after the US [more…]
‘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…]
