Category: Films
Why reaction to Lionsgate’s AI film deal reminds me of the Campaign for Real Ale | Peter Bradshaw
A shiver of unease, combined with a strangely defeated shrug, is how the news that entertainment behemoth Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial [more…]
‘It’s normalised. I was gawping’: Imogen Poots on making a movie in the West Bank
Imogen Poots has a confession. “I drew a man’s penis too big recently,” she says, her anime eyes widening. The 35-year-old London-born actor is sitting [more…]
Never Let Go review – Halle Berry takes hold of uneven woodland horror
There’s something nasty down in the woods again, just months after a deranged killer, some deranged fairies and a deranged attempt to resurrect IP all [more…]
Would starring in Men in Black really have made David Schwimmer a movie star?
Hollywood is full of tantalising “what-if?” moments; decisions made on the spur of the moment that have far-reaching repercussions for all involved. What if Robert [more…]
Happy 90th birthday Sophia Loren! Her greatest films – ranked
20. Prêt-à-Porter (1994) Loren’s 14th and final collaboration with her frequent co-star Marcello Mastroianni provides one of the few bright spots in Robert Altman’s dog’s [more…]
The Goldman Case review – gripping French courtroom drama with a chaotic energy
French cinema has recently given us some sensationally good courtroom dramas, such as Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, both [more…]
Strange Darling review – grisly but audacious serial-killer horror outside the comfort zone
Writer-director JT Mollner shuffles the narrative deck with this macabre, ingenious serial-killer horror whose chapters are shown out of linear order. Each storytelling card is [more…]
Girls Will Be Girls review – sexual awakening in Indian boarding school is poised and plausible
‘Some teachers thought a girl wasn’t up to it,” says a veteran female teacher with a weary roll of the eye. It’s some time in [more…]
From The Brutalist to Conclave: what is the state of this year’s Oscar race?
Without a cinema-shuttering pandemic or a production-pausing strike in the way, this year’s fall festival season should have felt like a grand return to normal. [more…]
Lionsgate partners with AI firm to train generative model on film and TV library
Lionsgate has signed a deal with the artificial intelligence research firm Runway, allowing it access to the company’s large film and TV library to train [more…]
