Category: Films
‘A collective sigh of relief’: how Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain went down in Poland
A Real Pain, Jesse Eisenberg’s film about two cousins on a heritage tour of Holocaust-related sites in Poland, has been largely embraced by Polish audiences, [more…]
Iranian directors of My Favourite Cake given suspended jail sentences for ‘spreading lies’
An Iranian court has handed two Iranian film directors suspended jail terms over a film that angered authorities in its home country but was acclaimed [more…]
The original Star Wars is back – but what if George Lucas is right about it not being much good?
Cast your mind back, lightsaber-wielding relics of a certain age, to the first time you saw the 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars. Was it [more…]
Marty at 70: the underdog best-picture winner remains hard to resist
Ernest Borgnine had the sort of face that suggested he was never young – or, at the very least, that he always looked older than [more…]
Melbourne cinema says threats caused it to cancel fundraising screening of Oscar-winning Palestinian displacement film
A fundraising screening of the Oscar-winning documentary film on the Israeli displacement of the Palestinian community, No Other Land, has been cancelled by a Melbourne [more…]
G20 review – Viola Davis plays president in so-so action thriller
Released just three months after the Trump inauguration, the geopolitical action thriller G20 was always going to have unavoidable resonance. While the shoot ended back [more…]
China to restrict US film releases after Trump’s tariff hike
Hours after Donald Trump imposed record 125% tariffs on Chinese products entering the US, China has announced it will further curb the number of US [more…]
Pillion, Phoenician and Panahi: superb lineup set to extend Cannes’ Oscar-sweeping streak
The Cannes film festival selection has been unveiled by its director Thierry Frémaux, with all its auteur heavyweights and cineaste silverback gorillas, including new work [more…]
Sinners review – Ryan Coogler’s deep-south gonzo horror down at the crossroads
Ryan Coogler is the film-maker and hit-maker who started in social realism with his debut Fruitvale Station, became the Wakandan emperor of super heroism with [more…]
One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream
Film-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in [more…]
