Category: Films
The Babadook at 10: how a tiny Australian film became a horror hit – and an unlikely queer icon
His eyes are depthless pools, his mouth a taut rictus. His fingers taper to blade-like claws and he looms like a scarecrow. In the dark [more…]
‘Watch out, I’m even less inhibited’: Olivia Williams on movies, misogyny and living with cancer
Since 2018, Olivia Williams has grown more blunt than she used to be. “I’m a bit less scared of the consequences of saying what I [more…]
Emily Watson: ‘You have to be a bit of an idiot to be an actor’
The British actor Emily Watson made one of the outstanding film debuts when she starred in Lars Von Trier’s Breaking the Waves in 1996, aged [more…]
‘Rachel had been ready to leave me if our IVF hadn’t worked’: writer Jack Thorne on how his family’s fertility struggles inspired his new film
In 1968, three people decided to cure infertility. In the 10 years between 1968 and 1978, Robert (Bob) Edwards, a scientist, Patrick Steptoe, an obstetrician, [more…]
Conclave: the fun, exciting Vatican thriller is perfect election escapism
Given, well … everything this week, you could be forgiven for never wanting to think about an election again. Which makes Conclave, a tense drama [more…]
A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40: Wes Craven’s horror still causes sleepless nights
From the beginning of his career, when he reworked Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring into The Last House on the Left, one of the nastiest [more…]
Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film
Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are set to star in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated next movie. According to Deadline, the two actors will join the previously announced [more…]
A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?
If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the [more…]
‘Women are made to feel as if they’re against each other’: the hit Indian film that challenges the patriarchy
There is nothing ostensibly special about Mumbai, according to Payal Kapadia. There is no iconic building to photograph, no ancient history to mine. “It’s a [more…]
Point Break review – Keanu and Swayze ride the waves with freaky, genre-hopping style
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s crazy action romp from 1991 now gets a rerelease. Eric Hobsbawm might have called it the final moment of The Long Eighties [more…]
