Category: Films
Venom: The Last Dance review – messy sequel ends series with a shrug
The recent, long-awaited, cratering of the superhero movie (with a notable Deadpool-sized exception) has led to a mad scramble – release dates pushed, marketing strategies [more…]
My Freaky Family review – overly quirky and unforgivably mawkish animation
This bumpy and chaotic family film is centred around a child who feels different because she’s normal. There are notes of the Addams family and [more…]
A Nightmare on Elm Street review – jauntily outrageous slasher is still cheerfully crass
With his hat, claw glove and dodgy knitwear, Freddy Krueger gifted the world’s children an easy costume for Halloween and – given the novelisations – [more…]
Idris Elba to move to Africa ‘to bolster the film industry’
Idris Elba has said he is planning to move to Africa as part of his plans to bolster the sub-Saharan film industry, saying “it’s going [more…]
Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band review – still blowing minds after 50 years
Bruce Springsteen fans get liner notes of the most luxurious, informed and immersive kind with this documentary by longtime Springsteen chronicler Thom Zimny, who charts [more…]
Watership Down review – charming rabbit animation still has power to terrify
‘The field … it’s covered in blood!” This is the young visionary rabbit Fiver, voiced by Richard Briers, in the British animation from 1978 by [more…]
The Room Next Door review – Almodóvar’s English-language debut is extravagant and engrossing
When this film won the Golden Lion for Pedro Almodóvar at the Venice film festival this summer, there were three kinds of surprised critic. Some [more…]
‘I am valued here’: the extraordinary film that recreates a disabled boy’s rich digital life
The night after their son Mats died aged just 25, Trude and Robert Steen sat on the sofa in their living room in Oslo with [more…]
Americans don’t want to see a Trump movie but elsewhere it’s a different story
I’ll be the first to admit that I did not want to watch The Apprentice, the new film chronicling Donald Trump’s ascendancy through 1970s and [more…]
Black Box Diaries review – inside the remarkable events that triggered Japan’s #MeToo movement
This is the remarkable story of Japanese journalist Shiori Itō, who waived a legal right to anonymity to pursue her rape case against prominent TV [more…]
