Category: Films
The Last Showgirl review – Pamela Anderson’s big comeback is a big disappointment
The desire to see Pamela Anderson receive her flowers after being mistreated and denigrated by numerous parties – from the media to men in the [more…]
We Live in Time review – Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh charm in heartfelt weepie
There was a warm late summer surprise to be had with last month’s surprisingly thoughtful and tender adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s supermarket bestseller It Ends [more…]
Russian documentary accused of falsely showing invading soldiers as victims
A new documentary portraying the lives of Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian frontlines has faced fierce criticism for attempting to whitewash Moscow’s war crimes. Russians [more…]
Venice film festival 2024 roundup – Nicole Kidman gets carnal and Lady Gaga goes crazy
In a summer when oppressive heat has turned the Venice Lido into a sauna, the stars at the city’s annual film festival were as numerous [more…]
Norman Spencer, David Lean’s collaborator and UK’s second oldest man, dies aged 110
Norman Spencer, who worked on some of the most acclaimed films made in Britain in the 1940s and 50s, has died at the age of [more…]
Can Travis Knight’s He-Man movie do for boys what Greta Gerwig’s Barbie did for girls?
Just a couple of years ago the advent of a Barbie movie powered by feminism might have seemed about as likely as the plaything giving [more…]
‘I’ve failed, badly – and I’m good with it’: James McAvoy on class, comfort and carnage
He is a funny character, James McAvoy. I meet him in one of those fancy Soho hotels where the cast of films that are about [more…]
April review – Dea Kulumbegashvili comes into her own with haunting abortion drama
Dea Kulumbegashvili is the much-admired Georgian director whose feature debut, Beginning, won golden opinions, though I confess to having been agnostic on the grounds of [more…]
Post your questions for Jude Law
Never say Jude Law doesn’t throw himself into a role. To better inhabit late-stage Henry VIII, he of the rolls of fat, rotting leg and [more…]
Keanu Reeves at 60: from surfer dude to action hero, his 20 best films – ranked!
20. Little Buddha (1993) Bernardo Bertolucci, deep into his picturesque international film-making phase, portrays the search for a reincarnated lama to insipid effect. But who [more…]