Category: Films
Widow Clicquot review – vine-whispering champagne-maker gets the biopic treatment
The French will be aghast: with climate change, the English are already encroaching on the sparkling wine trade, and now they’ve got the cheek to [more…]
Adam Ondra: Pushing the Limits review – Czech Spider-Man climbs all the way to Olympics
To observe world-famous rock climber Adam Ondra scale dizzyingly high mountain ranges is to witness the feats of a real-life Spider-Man; with stunning strength and [more…]
Hostile Dimensions review – goofy no-budget horror opens portal to a parallel world
Made on what looks like a super dinky budget, perhaps just enough to cover some shonky visual effects and a catering table offering out-of-date Tunnock’s [more…]
Between the Temples review – Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane charm in quirky comedy
In a sleepy town in upstate New York, Ben Gottlieb (Jason Schwartzman), the subject of writer-director Nathan Silver’s off-kilter Jewish comedy Between the Temples, isn’t [more…]
Cadejo Blanco review – compelling performances in slow-burn drug gang thriller
Two sisters go out clubbing. In the loos, they drunkenly argue, and one of them storms out. When she wakes up the next morning, her [more…]
Lore review – Brit-horror anthology tells its gruesome stories around the campfire
Anthology films are notoriously hard to pull off but, though it starts shakily, this low-budget British portmanteau has an ace in the hole: horror stalwart [more…]
Clandestina review – artists fighting fascists in Portugual in the 1950s – and the present day
Anchored by the personal writings of 20th-century Portuguese revolutionary Margarida Tengarrinha, Maria Mire’s feature debut attempts to create a bridge between the history, the present [more…]
Honey, I lost the kids: is generation Z done with Disney?
Disney superfans travelled from 36 countries and all 50 US states to take part in the company’s biennial fan conference in Anaheim, California, last weekend. [more…]
Alain Delon: a life in pictures
Delon and his wife, Nathalie, at their home in Beverly Hills, California, with their son Anthony in 1964. The baby was born while Delon was [more…]
Mesmeric and beautiful, Alain Delon was one of cinema’s most mysterious stars
There is a famous photograph of Alain Delon in 1967, sitting on a couch next to Marianne Faithfull, with a subdued Mick Jagger on the [more…]