Category: Films
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…]
Claressa Shields: ‘I’m not here for people to cry and feel sorry for me’
Claressa Shields was two months removed from defending her Olympic gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games when an email from Hollywood landed [more…]
Invitation to a Murder review – florist-detective leads crime yarn that out-cosies Agatha Christie
Serviceable but underwhelming, this murder mystery is very old-school in every way, reminiscent of many an Agatha Christie page-turner and even more so of Christie’s [more…]
Detained review – Abbie Cornish is best thing in twisty noir that flirts with ridiculousness
When Rebecca (Abbie Cornish) wakes up handcuffed in a police interview room with no memory of how she got there, something feels off. The officers [more…]
A Man and a Camera review – doorstep prank movie is pass-agg psychological study
Dutch film-maker Guido Hendrikx has given us a funny but also somewhat slippery and disingenuous bit of pass-agg provocation, somewhere between documentary cinema and conceptual [more…]
Elle Fanning: ‘The last thing I want to be is boring’
‘Technically, I did my first film when I was two,” says Elle Fanning, which, at 26, makes her a youthful old-timer, already more than two [more…]