Category: Films
Blood Simple at 40: how the Coens set the standard for modern noir
The loathsome proprietor of a Texas bar slumps in his office chair after hours, seemingly dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Another man [more…]
‘It’s a PR battle’: inside the Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni lawsuits
It Ends With Us should have been a success story. The long-awaited film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, a tale of cyclical domestic violence, [more…]
‘David Lynch altered our brains’: fellow directors, friends and fans remember a titan of cinema
‘I told them: There’s no way I can improve Blue Velvet’ Paul Schrader, director David couldn’t get Blue Velvet made. Dino De Laurentiis told David [more…]
Jeff Baena obituary
One of the few actor/director couples in the US independent film scene, Aubrey Plaza and Jeff Baena were never keen to discuss their personal lives [more…]
How have the California wildfires affected Hollywood?
The California wildfires have to date killed at least 25 people, destroyed or damaged more than 12,000 structures and put about 300,000 people on evacuation [more…]
From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked
12. Inland Empire (2006) It is one of life’s eternal mysteries that for the last two decades of his life, no one was willing to [more…]
‘A nice little cameo that Judi Dench hasn’t got her paws on’: Joan Plowright’s screen career blossomed with age | Peter Bradshaw
One of Joan Plowright’s greatest screen performances came towards the very end of her career: a gloriously subtle, lovable appearance on Roger Michell’s documentary Nothing [more…]
Back in Action review – Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx slum in Netflix comedy
The last time we saw Cameron Diaz on screen, it was way back in 2014. The star, who had been such a magnetic force in [more…]
Brad Pitt reacts to ‘awful’ scammers who fooled French woman using his pictures
A spokesperson for Brad Pitt has addressed the viral story about a French woman who believed she was in a long-term relationship with the actor [more…]
David Lynch: the great American surrealist who made experimentalism mainstream
No director ever interpreted the American Dream with more artless innocence than David Lynch. It could be the title of any of his films. Lynch [more…]
