Category: Films

At a Toronto festival strangely heavy on middling dramas about either wrestlers (Unstoppable, uplifting yet routine) or boxers (The Cut, downbeat yet ridiculous), it’s easy [more…]

There are winks throughout the Matt Damon/Ben Affleck-produced wrestling drama Unstoppable suggesting that those involved are keenly aware of the archetypes that have come to [more…]

Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is a tender, heartfelt drama about a driven former war correspondent who’s in search of the perfect final scene. [more…]

The desire to see Pamela Anderson receive her flowers after being mistreated and denigrated by numerous parties – from the media to men in the [more…]

There was a warm late summer surprise to be had with last month’s surprisingly thoughtful and tender adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s supermarket bestseller It Ends [more…]

A new documentary portraying the lives of Russian soldiers near the Ukrainian frontlines has faced fierce criticism for attempting to whitewash Moscow’s war crimes. Russians [more…]

In a summer when oppressive heat has turned the Venice Lido into a sauna, the stars at the city’s annual film festival were as numerous [more…]

Those two stark monosyllables in the title are a callback to Leigh’s debut from 1971, Bleak Moments: they lay down an uncompromising and yet also [more…]

Norman Spencer, who worked on some of the most acclaimed films made in Britain in the 1940s and 50s, has died at the age of [more…]

Just a couple of years ago the advent of a Barbie movie powered by feminism might have seemed about as likely as the plaything giving [more…]