Category: Films
Baby Driver actor Hudson Meek, 16, dies after fall from moving vehicle
The teenage actor Hudson Meek has died after he fell out of a moving vehicle in Alabama, authorities said. Meek, 16, was hurt on December [more…]
‘What would happen if the camera was Buddhist?’ The outlier film-making of RaMell Ross
Artists don’t come much more outsider than RaMell Ross. He once mailed himself across the US in a wooden crate. He says things like: “What [more…]
Becoming Madonna review – a megastar’s extraordinary ascent to pop royalty
The story of Madonna’s leap to stratospheric celebrity is breathlessly and efficiently retold in this documentary that uses only archive clips and existing audio interview [more…]
And the 2024 Braddies go to … Peter Bradshaw’s film picks of the year
The time has come once more for me to present my “Braddies”, a strictly personal awards list for films getting a UK release in the [more…]
UK box office forecast to top £1bn in 2025 after year-on-year fall
The UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for the first time in six years, but cinema bosses still say moviegoing will [more…]
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…]
