Category: Films
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is ending his retirement from acting to star in his son’s directorial debut. The 67-year-old British actor quit acting after [more…]
Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies’ obsession with fictional drugs
Cinema is a hell of a drug. For movie lovers, a trip to the pictures is just that, a two (or, increasingly, six) hour psychoactive [more…]
Die Before You Die review – stunt vlogger comes undone in buried-alive survival thriller
Adi (Ziad Abaza, also the film’s co-scriptwriter) is the kind of loud-mouthed wide boy you’d change seats to get away from in a restaurant. Although [more…]
Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite
The inevitability of even more Stephen King adaptations, in the wake of It’s record-breaking success back in 2017, has rarely felt associated with all that [more…]
Inherit the Witch review – like an am-dram theatre group doing a murder mystery party in an Airbnb
Starring, written and directed by Cradeaux Alexander, this is a low-budget tale of the occult, and not a very good one at that. If you’re [more…]
No Other Land review – powerful Israel-Palestine documentary is essential viewing
It’s difficult to review No Other Land, a documentary by a group of Palestinian and Israeli activist film-makers on the destruction of villages in the [more…]
Will Ferrell’s Netflix doc Will & Harper is flawed but vital viewing for cis people | Veronica Esposito
Let’s admit it: cisgender people are really curious about us trans women. They want to know things such as: what’s it like to have a [more…]
Signs of War review – gripping testimony of harrowing march to conflict in Ukraine
Co-directed by photojournalist Pierre Crom and film-maker Juri Rechinsky, this gripping documentary revisits the harrowing events leading up to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Seated [more…]
Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story review – life story of America’s healthcare saviour
As unbelievable life trajectories go, British private school outcast to South American cowboy to US primetime TV naturalist to American healthcare saviour must be up [more…]
‘An impossible passion’: cinema’s long love affair with Wuthering Heights
When Andrea Arnold imagined the opening shots of her film of Wuthering Heights, she saw heavy mists swirling around the outline of a misshapen creature [more…]
