Category: Films
Look out kid: ecstatic reactions to Bob Dylan biopic mean Timothée Chalamet may break Oscars record
A Complete Unknown, James Mangold’s biopic about Bob Dylan, finished filming five months ago. Shortly afterwards, the studio behind the film moved its release date [more…]
Can DC really pull off a Sgt Rock movie with Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino on board?
There are no cherry blossoms hinting at the first flush of spring, the nights are creeping in rather than drawing out, and there are scant [more…]
Bread & Roses review – Afghan women reveal crushing reality of Taliban rule
Afghan film-maker Sahra Mani, creator of the rape-survivor documentary A Thousand Girls Like Me from 2018, brought her camera to Kabul to chronicle Afghanistan’s fall [more…]
Two bottles a day and a 10,000 bottle wine cellar: Denzel Washington opens up about his past drinking problem
Health and fitness coverage of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott’s belated Roman empire sequel, has so far focused on Paul Mescal’s gym regime and glut of [more…]
Daisy Ridley: ‘I made a toilet cake on Bake Off because flushing with the lid up is unhygienic beyond belief’
How much training did you do for Young Woman and the Sea? Wasn’t the sea cold? Closey29 Incredibly cold. I did three months training, then [more…]
The Apprentice actor Sebastian Stan says Hollywood stars are ‘afraid’ of Trump
Sebastian Stan, who stars in The Apprentice, a biopic of Donald Trump focusing on his association in the 1970s with lawyer Roy Cohn, has said [more…]
Snow Leopard review – enigmatic tale of man v beast is late Tibetan film-maker’s final word
Tibetan film-maker Pema Tseden died of heart failure last year at the age of 53, just months after completing this movie; his health was almost [more…]
Layla review – heartbreak looms in coming-of-age yarn of a secret affair and queer identity
British-Iraqi drag artist and film-maker Amrou Al-Kadhi makes a strong feature debut with this coming-of-age dramedy of queer identity, which is heartfelt if slightly glib. [more…]
‘Nothing left except quivering protoplasm’: the man who pedalled a plane across the Channel
Bryan Allen is not the type to blow his own trumpet. Colleagues who knew him only as a software engineer in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory [more…]
BAM! review – smart gig-economy comedy is a rollicking modern-day farce
Sparkling and vivacious, Jordan Tragash’s heartfelt queer comedy captures with considerable charm the conundrums of the precarious gig worker’s lifestyle. For those familiar with Chicago, [more…]
