Category: Films
A Nightmare on Elm Street at 40: Wes Craven’s horror still causes sleepless nights
From the beginning of his career, when he reworked Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring into The Last House on the Left, one of the nastiest [more…]
Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are latest to join Christopher Nolan’s new film
Anne Hathaway and Zendaya are set to star in Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated next movie. According to Deadline, the two actors will join the previously announced [more…]
A Game of Thrones movie may be coming – but do we really need it?
If we’ve learned anything from the tortuous final episodes of Game of Thrones, it’s that nothing quite unites humanity like collective disappointment. Which begs the [more…]
‘Women are made to feel as if they’re against each other’: the hit Indian film that challenges the patriarchy
There is nothing ostensibly special about Mumbai, according to Payal Kapadia. There is no iconic building to photograph, no ancient history to mine. “It’s a [more…]
Point Break review – Keanu and Swayze ride the waves with freaky, genre-hopping style
Director Kathryn Bigelow’s crazy action romp from 1991 now gets a rerelease. Eric Hobsbawm might have called it the final moment of The Long Eighties [more…]
Turkish film festival scrapped over Daniel Craig gay drama censorship
Organisers of an Istanbul film festival announced its cancellation on Thursday to protest against a local authority ban on the screening of Queer, a drama [more…]
Elizabeth Hurley: ‘If I were Queen, I’d outlaw air fresheners in cars and ban prison for white-collar criminals’
Why haven’t you done more comedy? You were effortlessly hilarious in Austin Powers. Haigin88 Why, thank you! I learned from the best playing opposite Mike [more…]
The Piano Lesson review – Washington family get stuck into August Wilson’s powerful play
Eight years ago, as producer-director and star, Denzel Washington gave us an intelligent and deeply felt film version of August Wilson’s stage play Fences, a [more…]
Piece By Piece review – heartfelt biopic of Pharrell Williams’s life … in Lego
Pharrell Williams’s life … only it’s Lego. A fun idea – like Muhammad Ali in Etch-a-Sketch or Harry and Meghan with Thunderbirds puppets. This is [more…]
Llama drama and fresco textures: unseen scenes from The Colour of Pomegranates – in pictures
In a preface to his script, Parajanov made it clear that his film was not just about the life of Sayat Nova, but to evoke [more…]