Category: Films

Back in the 1950s and 60s in the twilight of Hollywood’s golden era, the sword-and-sandals movie stood as tall as the Colossus of Rhodes. It [more…]

Ahead of the 2 March Oscars ceremony, the Guardian film looks at how the big contenders are shaping up in the race for glory. We [more…]

What Tony Blair’s former spin doctor Alastair Campbell said of New Labour – “We don’t do God” – applies also to the Academy Awards. The [more…]

James Bond has fallen into the hands of a billionaire’s business empire after Amazon revealed that it has acquired “creative control” of the spy franchise [more…]

10. Major Dundee (1965) After making his name as a director of westerns, Sam Peckinpah was given his first shot at making a major studio [more…]

Winning an Oscar for acting has never looked particularly easy, even if certain types of performances – physical transformations, celebrity impressions – always seem to [more…]

Once again, Romanian film-maker Radu Jude has given us a garrulous, querulous movie of ideas – a scattershot fusillade of scorn. It is satirical, polemical, [more…]

“Everybody dies and that’s fucked up” is the tagline and emo ethos of snarky Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, a film about the inescapable inevitability [more…]

Julian Holloway, who has died aged 80, was a prolific television actor and voice artist, and had a stage career that took him to Broadway, [more…]