Category: Films
Shakespeare goes pop: the best of the bard’s work updated on screen
What is the Shakespeare canon if not the ideal treasure trove of IP? Truancy laws mandate that students develop at the very least a passing [more…]
Blue Lock the Movie: Episode Nagi review – football anime gets the battle royale-treatment
Like Squid Game meets Shaolin Soccer, this feature-length extrapolation of Muneyuki Kaneshiro’s popular manga and anime set in a football training academy treats the beautiful [more…]
‘You have to get over the me thing’: Kevin Bacon on money, marriage – and learning to live with himself
There’s a state that veteran Hollywood actors can reach, beyond ravenous ambition, but with retirement still distant, that seems to make them contented as professionals [more…]
Streaming: the best of the Brat Packers
Depending on your age, Andrew McCarthy’s Brats (Disney+, from 5 July) will either be a cosy nostalgia trip or a window into another era of [more…]
Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention
Mike Leigh has criticised UK voters considering abstention at this year’s general election, saying the subjects of his 2018 historical drama Peterloo would be appalled [more…]
Head of France’s cinema agency sentenced to three years for sexual assault of godson
Dominique Boutonnat, the head of France’s powerful National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image (CNC), was on Friday given a three-year prison sentence, including [more…]
Kalki 2898 AD review – maximalist sci-fi epic mixes Mahabharata with Mad Max
This fizzy Telugu-language mashup of Indian mythology, martial arts and Bollywood-style dance-romance-and-melodrama plot mechanics, all filtered through a fine sci-fi sieve, is mostly a hoot. [more…]
Is Marvel breaking all its own rules with the new Fantastic Four movie?
Once upon a time, every new superhero movie seemed to exist in (not-so) splendid isolation. Michael Keaton’s Batman never met Christopher Reeve’s Superman, despite the [more…]
‘In Europe, everyone’s screaming kill, kill, kill’: Stellan Skarsgård on Sweden, ‘silly’ Scandi noir and security
Stellan Skarsgård is speaking to me from his cabin, outside Stockholm, and why shouldn’t he look relaxed and happy, in those clement, sun-dappled surrounds? But [more…]
A Family Affair review – Nicole Kidman’s hot age-gap romance quickly goes cold
When it comes to age-gap films starring Nicole Kidman, Jonathan Glazer’s Birth is surely impossible to follow. But newcomer screenwriter Carrie Solomon and director Richard [more…]
