Category: Films
Gracie and Pedro review – star names can’t make up for charmless cat and dog odd couple
Featuring the vocal talents of Bill Nighy, Susan Sarandon, Alicia Silverstone, Danny Trejo and Brooke Shields, here is a new animated family adventure, in which [more…]
Sky Peals director Moin Hussain and star Faraz Ayub: ‘People want to identify in one way – but our culture is mixed’
For many years, says Moin Hussain, he had a dream of making a film set in a motorway service station. It would be science fiction, [more…]
Cuckoo review – stylish horror offers atmosphere with incoherence
There’s a dizzying amount to see and hear in German film-maker Tilman Singer’s brash style-over-substance horror Cuckoo, a film that pokes and prods and screeches [more…]
Crystal Voyager: the ultimate surfing film with a DIY spirit – and a Pink Floyd soundtrack
In Australia by the late 1960s, the Beach Boys and Gidget were out, Durban poison, blotting paper acid and prog rock were in and surfing [more…]
Dark summer: why film noirs often work better in the sunshine
It’s hot out there, and it’s only getting hotter. This past month, Death Valley reported the highest average temperatures in the documented history of Earth, [more…]
David Lynch says he is too ill to direct films in person
Film-maker David Lynch has said he is now too ill to direct films in person and could only work on projects remotely. In an interview [more…]
Together 99 review – quarter-century renuion for Lukas Moodysson’s Swedish commune comedy
More than 20 years ago, Lukas Moodysson directed the Swedish comedy Together: set in 1975, it was about a bunch of hippies living in a [more…]
The Weak and the Wicked/No Trees in the Street review – tough, old school British drama
J Lee Thompson is a British director who could maybe do with a bit more auteur respect: here is a double-bill rerelease of two of [more…]
Rebel Moon: what do Zack Snyder’s extravagant Netflix director’s cuts add?
In the opening moments of Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, a cute little computer-generated creature bearing a passing resemblance to Baby Yoda widens his cute little [more…]
British artist’s cartoons that inspired Bond films on show at Oscars museum
“You only live twice, or so it seems” – at least, that is, if you are the work of the late illustrator John McLusky, creator [more…]