Category: Films
Will The Hunt for Gollum really be two movies? That’s got to be a stretch
Sir Ian McKellen dropped a stinker on the British talkshow This Morning earlier in the week so putrid that even Gollum himself might steer clear [more…]
Speak No Evil review – James McAvoy gives roaring life to red-blooded holiday horror
Tolstoy famously suggested in barnstorming infidelity classic Anna Karenina that all happy families are alike, while the unhappy ones are unhappy in their own way [more…]
Saturday Night review – tedious SNL origins tale is an unfunny misfire
The current sorry state of Saturday Night Live, a weekly comedy show so consistently, maddeningly absent of laughs that it now borders on avant garde [more…]
‘It was a true privilege to witness his talent firsthand’: readers on James Earl Jones
‘So kind and gentle’ I got to meet James Earl Jones in 2010 for a moment after seeing the play Cat on a Hot Tin [more…]
Jude Law: ‘Playing Henry VIII messed up my back. I’m still trying to sort it out’
Why did the paps used to call you “Celebrity Dave”? peter1234I didn’t know the paps call me Celebrity Dave! If they do, it’s probably because [more…]
‘Do you have contempt for my views?’ How a leftwing film-maker and a Republican came together
“Donald Trump is a weak man pretending to be strong. He is a small man pretending to be big. He’s a faithless man pretending to [more…]
The Critic review – Ian McKellen’s poison pen sharpens 30s society cosy-crime drama
Channelling something of his big-screen Richard III from almost 30 years ago, Ian McKellen now portrays an ageing chancer with reptilian contempt for every single [more…]
The Piano Lesson review – powerful yet patchy August Wilson drama
The Piano Lesson is the third film, after Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, that Denzel Washington has produced from playwright August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. [more…]
‘Now I owned a private war’: Lee Miller and the female journalists who broke battlefield rules
In August 1944, the photographer and war journalist Lee Miller was sent to France to report on conditions in the newly liberated port city of [more…]
Better Man review – Robbie Williams monkey biopic is a bananas gamble that pays off
There were many questions swirling around the announcement of a Robbie Williams biopic as a key player in the fall festival season. For many Americans, [more…]
