Category: Films
Listy do M 6 (Letters to Santa 6) review – pick ’n’ mix Christmas tales coast on a sugar high
‘When the pressure builds, you don’t notice it. But once that valve blows, it’s chaos. And during the holidays, people’s valves tend to blow.” It’s [more…]
Gladiator II takes $87m to break Ridley Scott opening box-office record
Gladiator II isn’t entertaining audiences in the US, Canada and China until this Friday, but scored the highest ever international opening for a Ridley Scott [more…]
C’est Pas Moi review – Holy Motors director Leos Carax pays witty homage to himself
Here is a 40-minute autobiographical jeu d’esprit from Leos Carax, the renowned director of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Bad Blood, Holy Motors and Annette; a [more…]
‘Makes my heart beat faster’: why I Know Where I’m Going! is my feelgood movie
In search of solace, I always turn to a film that will take me away from myself. I Know Where I’m Going! is, as you [more…]
Sergio Leone, ‘the Man with No English’, mimed directions to spaghetti western star Clint Eastwood
They made their names with A Fistful of Dollars, the first in a series of spaghetti westerns that became classics of 20th-century cinema. But the [more…]
‘I’ve had a wild, chaotic, beautiful life’: Rebecca Hall on race, regrets and learning to be herself
We all thought that we knew Rebecca Hall – English rose, on stage since childhood, daughter of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s founder Sir Peter Hall, [more…]
Saoirse Ronan ‘absolutely right’ about women’s safety fears, says Gladiator combat trainer
He has trained would-be assassins and marshalled invading hordes, Napoleonic forces and Roman regiments, but movie military adviser Paul Biddiss found himself in the midst [more…]
When historians and directors clash: ‘Ridley Scott was Napoleonic – there was no doubt who was in charge’
If we set aside the more glaring historical inaccuracies in the trailers for the long-awaited Gladiator sequel – the guy riding a rhinoceros for example [more…]
Streaming: Thelma and the best films about old-age rebellion
June Squibb’s career has run on a different timeline to that of most movie stars: she made her film debut, in Woody Allen’s Alice, at [more…]
Gladiator II: battles, baboons, Mescal and Denzel – discuss with spoilers
Twenty-four years on and Ridley Scott’s belated follow-up to his biggest critical success is finally on cinema screens. How does it compare to the first [more…]
