Category: Films
Cate Blanchett’s retiring from acting? I’ll believe it when I see it | Michael Sun
Cate Blanchett is an actor’s actor. Cate Blanchett is the type of actor whose characters – flinty, steely, sly, sophisticated – are hardly distinguishable from [more…]
Neil Young: Coastal review – music legend on the road, filmed by his wife Daryl Hannah
Daryl Hannah has made another film (after Paradox in 2018) about her musician husband Neil Young; this one is about his recent 15-date solo tour [more…]
‘The grief takes your breath away’: how death transformed a loving family – and shaped a remarkable film
Peace hangs over a farm in rural Norway. The last of the melting snow lingers in hummocks and bikes are strewn outside the Payne family’s [more…]
Chosen Family review – fluid directing by Heather Graham ballasts enjoyable romcom
For younger readers not well versed in last-century cinema, Heather Graham was one of the hottest ingenues in Hollywood throughout the 1990s; her greatest performance [more…]
The Thicket review – Peter Dinklage is a bounty hunter in harsh western with unusual chill
Here is a western starring Peter Dinklage, but forget hot sun-baked gullies and leather-skinned cowboys riding sweatily through rattlesnake country. The Thicket takes place in [more…]
Eddington: first trailer released for Ari Aster’s Covid-set, Cannes-bound comedy western
The first footage has been released of Eddington, the much-anticipated black comedy western from Midsommar director Ari Aster. The film, which will premiere at Cannes [more…]
How we made Muriel’s Wedding: ‘No one wanted a film about a plus-sized thief and liar’
PJ Hogan, writer and director The kernel of the story was my family, and my sister’s stormy relationship with our dad. He was a local [more…]
Iraq veteran and film-maker Ray Mendoza: ‘Writing Warfare with Alex Garland was like going to a therapist’
Ray Mendoza, 45, served for more than 16 years as a US Navy Seal and training instructor before leaving to work as a Hollywood military [more…]
Streaming: The Last Showgirl and the best Las Vegas films
(There’s a reason why film-makers are routinely drawn to the glaring, garish lights of Las Vegas: in its spangliest strips, it feels more movie set [more…]
Bella Thorne accuses Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals on movie set
Bella Thorne has accused fellow US actor Mickey Rourke of bruising her genitals with a metal grinder on the set of a movie that they [more…]