Category: Films
One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride
I will be the first to say: I miss Insecure, which left a dynamic duo-sized hole in the TV landscape since it concluded in December [more…]
Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won
These Bafta nominations have given us the traditional buffet of snubs for industry observers to frown at. Nothing at all for Luca Guadagnino’s tremendous drama [more…]
A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?
Last night, at the London premiere of A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet defied convention by turning up on a Lime bike. He rode the bike [more…]
Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out
Conclave, Edward Berger’s papal thriller about a conflicted cardinal overseeing the election of the new pope, heads into next month’s Bafta awards with the most [more…]
Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover
If anyone could have rebooted and revitalised the much-mocked 70s softcore-sexy franchise Emmanuelle, you would think it would be that formidably smart film-maker Audrey Diwan, [more…]
Catching Dust review – urbanites and hillbillies clash in confident desert noir
British director Stuart Gatt’s confidently handled debut is a tale of two trailers: one a banged-up redneck bolthole in a godforsaken Texas desert commune; the [more…]
Alone No More review – touching shaggy dog tale about a stray mutt who rescues a lonely man
There is a daffy streak of eccentricity in this rambling shaggy dog tale from Hong Kong. It’s the story of a stray mutt called Piggy [more…]
Oscar nominations further delayed by wildfires as Grammys and Sundance set to go ahead
The ongoing wildfires in California have added a further delay to this year’s Oscar nominations as the industry continues to feel the impact. With 92,000 [more…]
‘I was waking up five times a night’: how film-maker Mikhail Krichman escaped from Russia
It was March 2022 and Joshua Oppenheimer was waiting at Copenhagen airport for the young man who would be staying with him for a few [more…]
Marvel is ready to recast Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa in Black Panther. Should they?
Marvel’s multiverse has become a narrative Swiss army knife capable of slicing through the thorniest of creative dilemmas and papering over the widest of cracks. [more…]
