Category: Films
Tom Holland set to star in new film from Christopher Nolan
Spider-Man’s Tom Holland is set to take a starring role in Christopher Nolan’s next film, alongside Matt Damon. According to Deadline, Holland is in talks [more…]
Family Pack review – Jean Reno is game for a laugh in card-based time-travelling caper
This rather sweet time-travelling comedy raises welcome memories of French classic Les Visiteurs, especially with the latter’s star Jean Reno on board. On this occasion, [more…]
Secrets of a Wallaby Boy review – low budget romp-com tracks delivery rider round his route
Cheap and pretty charmless, this low-budget British comedy combines kids’ telly naffness with crass sex jokes. It’s really quite tawdry and the knob gags just [more…]
Matt and Mara review – lo-fi answer to When Harry Met Sally offers uncertain relationship
Here is a toothless, aimless dramedy from Canada, a lo-fi excursion into nothing very interesting; it’s what would happen if Harry met Sally and maybe [more…]
Mitzi Gaynor obituary
The actor and singer Mitzi Gaynor, best remembered as the star of the 1958 film musical South Pacific, began her showbiz career as an ingenue [more…]
‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival
A whimsical Australian stop-motion film about separated twins has taken the top prize at the London film festival, with the jury calling it a “singular [more…]
Mikey Madison: from Tarantino bit part to hot tip for an Oscar playing a sex worker
You know what it’s like: you’ve ordered an important package, but you can’t be at home when it’s delivered so you ask a friend to [more…]
Before superhero movies, directors were masters of the universe – now you can find them cowering in their trailers
When the wheels are coming off, there is no more exquisite humiliation that can be visited upon an adult human than being the director of a big-budget [more…]
‘I felt this film was my duty’: director Mati Diop on Dahomey, about the return of looted African treasures
What thoughts would go through the mind of a king exiled from his country for more than a century? What if that monarch took the [more…]
‘You can see the money on screen’: why Hollywood is betting on Gladiator II not being another Folie à Deux
An actual-scale model of the Colosseum, flooded and filled with longboats. A two-tonne, eight-wheeled, lifesize rhino that can spin, snarl, wag its head and do [more…]
