Category: Films
On Falling review – the strip mining of an online warehouse worker’s sanity
The human cost of the online convenience shopping revolution is, arguably, still to be properly addressed in cinema or any other art form. Chloé Zhao’s [more…]
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi to lead Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights
Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi are set to lead a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights from Emerald Fennell. The Oscar winner, known for Promising Young [more…]
Spanish police arrest five people over fake Brad Pitt scam
Spanish police have arrested five people accused of scamming two women out of €325,000 (£271,000) by posing as the Hollywood star Brad Pitt online. The [more…]
Post your questions for Isabelle Huppert
France has quite a few grandes dames of cinema, with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Adjani all very much in the game. But none [more…]
Escape review – blonds have much less fun in sleazy throwback survival horror
For all its effective use of modern drone cinematography, this survival horror is very much a throwback to the video nasties of the 1980s. The [more…]
Shocks delivered: why pregnancy body horror is on the rise
Nosebleeds, a metallic taste in the mouth, feet that go up a whole size the side effects of pregnancy are their own kind of body [more…]
Skeleton warriors and plasticine chickens: why stop-motion animation is still going strong a century on
It all started – or stop-started, perhaps – with some tiny pterodactyls. As 1924 drew to a close, Marcel Delgado was putting the finishing touches [more…]
Streaming: the best biker movies
At 41, there’s still time for my midlife crisis to take an unexpected turn, but as yet I must confess that I have never known [more…]
James Cameron taunts critics of his dialogue: ‘Let me see your highest-grossing films’
James Cameron has hit back against reviewers – and filmgoers – who criticise the dialogue in his films. Speaking to Empire for the 40th anniversary [more…]
‘The whole human condition is encased in the story’: why Beatles films just keep coming
The Beatles broke up in 1970 but – as far as the film industry is concerned – they are more current than ever, with a [more…]