Category: Films
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive director, dies aged 78
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged [more…]
Timothée Chalamet claims he was fined £65 for parking Lime bike at A Complete Unknown premiere
Timothée Chalamet’s choice of vehicle to the London premiere of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown on Tuesday night won him a new legion [more…]
Wolf Man review – fear-free update of the lupine myth lacks bite and believability
Horror virtuoso Leigh Whannell, screenwriter of the original Saw and writer-director of The Invisible Man, gets into an awful mess with this fundamentally muddled and [more…]
One of Them Days review – Keke Palmer and SZA take a bumpy but fun ride
I will be the first to say: I miss Insecure, which left a dynamic duo-sized hole in the TV landscape since it concluded in December [more…]
Baftas 2025: Conclave leads a pack of underdog tales – and Kneecap may already have won
These Bafta nominations have given us the traditional buffet of snubs for industry observers to frown at. Nothing at all for Luca Guadagnino’s tremendous drama [more…]
A twist of Lime: Timothée Chalamet rode a rental bike on to the red carpet. But how long had he been in the saddle?
Last night, at the London premiere of A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet defied convention by turning up on a Lime bike. He rode the bike [more…]
Conclave blessed with 12 Bafta nominations as Nicole Kidman and Denzel Washington shut out
Conclave, Edward Berger’s papal thriller about a conflicted cardinal overseeing the election of the new pope, heads into next month’s Bafta awards with the most [more…]
Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover
If anyone could have rebooted and revitalised the much-mocked 70s softcore-sexy franchise Emmanuelle, you would think it would be that formidably smart film-maker Audrey Diwan, [more…]
Catching Dust review – urbanites and hillbillies clash in confident desert noir
British director Stuart Gatt’s confidently handled debut is a tale of two trailers: one a banged-up redneck bolthole in a godforsaken Texas desert commune; the [more…]
Alone No More review – touching shaggy dog tale about a stray mutt who rescues a lonely man
There is a daffy streak of eccentricity in this rambling shaggy dog tale from Hong Kong. It’s the story of a stray mutt called Piggy [more…]