Category: Films
Dreamin’ Wild review – Walton Goggins and Casey Affleck are rediscovered 70s rockers in late-life fame drama
Newcomer-fans of Walton Goggins, sharing gifs of his stunned expression in The White Lotus, might want a look at this interesting but flawed movie: a [more…]
Minecraft mania: how millions of rowdy kids saved the box office
Minecraft has jumped from game consoles to movie screens, and theaters across the country are shaking with perhaps the most vocal fan participation this side [more…]
The Amateur review – Rami Malek takes action-hero baby steps as CIA analyst out for revenge
Here is a moderate action spy thriller directed by James Hawes, who previously made the Nicholas Winton drama One Life. It is conceived in the [more…]
Memo to Timothée Chalamet: instead of total-immersion ping pong, maybe take the year off | Stuart Heritage
Not winning an Oscar can do funny things to people. Look at Leonardo DiCaprio. He tried harder and harder with every successive loss until he [more…]
Demise review – an enjoyably ludicrous throwback to 90s erotic thrillers
Here is a low-budget erotic thriller directed by Yara Estrada Lowe, which recalls both the highs and the lows of the genre’s heyday. As with [more…]
The Penguin Lessons is just the latest film that teaches us how animals rescue men from loneliness
The penguin at the centre of The Penguin Lessons, a new movie by Peter Cattaneo, is nothing if not hard-working. The film, adapted from the [more…]
‘Unfailing ability to cheer me up’: why The Rebel is my feelgood movie
For me, memorable and/or uplifting film experiences tend to be around individual moments – the resurrection scene in The Matrix for example, or Dizzy’s “I [more…]
Private Footage review – found-footage study of apartheid takes the split-screen route
Janaína Nagata’s documentary debut resembles a detective investigation. In 2018, the Brazilian film-maker chanced upon an old 16mm reel of what looked like a typical [more…]
All the Mountains Give review – gripping portrait of smugglers on the Iran-Iraq border
In an immersive and sweeping debut feature, Kurdish film-maker Arash Rakhsha portrays the plight of his people with sheer cinematic poetry. Shot over six years, [more…]
Disney’s Snow White had higher carbon emissions than the latest Fast & Furious film
At a screening of the new Snow White movie in London last month, influencers walked through an artificial fairytale forest, complete with a full-size thatched [more…]
