Category: Films
An Inspector Calls review – Alastair Sim drawing room drama brilliantly exposes its era’s hypocrisies
JB Priestley’s drawing-room melodrama of Edwardian guilt and fear is rereleased for its 70th anniversary; it is an intricate clockwork mechanism ticking inexorably to the [more…]
The Friend review – Naomi Watts befriends great dane in sweet, slight drama
It takes a certain type of person to have a dog in New York City, let alone a 180lb, questionably behaved one. Iris, played with [more…]
V/H/S/Beyond review – charmingly ragged lo-fi horror anthology strikes again
Not counting a couple of spin-offs, this is the seventh feature in the V/H/S horror franchise, which since the first edition in 2012 have packaged [more…]
Daniel Day-Lewis’s return to acting is welcome news – but being directed by his son might prove tricky | Peter Bradshaw
Seven years ago, I recorded my swooning-fanboy professional farewell to Daniel Day-Lewis who at the age of 60 had announced his retirement from movies. He [more…]
Children of the Cult review – fierce doc about the Osho commune survivors
Maroesja Perizonius and Alice McShane’s impassioned, courageous, focused and confrontational documentary alleges the sexual abuse and rape of children in the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (AKA [more…]
Maya and the Wave review – the sea is not the only risk for female big-wave surfer
This film is ostensibly about Maya Gabeira, a Brazilian competitive big-wave surfer (ie towed on special boards into waves of 20ft and over), and her [more…]
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting after seven years
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis is ending his retirement from acting to star in his son’s directorial debut. The 67-year-old British actor quit acting after [more…]
Fountain of youth: The Substance and movies’ obsession with fictional drugs
Cinema is a hell of a drug. For movie lovers, a trip to the pictures is just that, a two (or, increasingly, six) hour psychoactive [more…]
Die Before You Die review – stunt vlogger comes undone in buried-alive survival thriller
Adi (Ziad Abaza, also the film’s co-scriptwriter) is the kind of loud-mouthed wide boy you’d change seats to get away from in a restaurant. Although [more…]
Salem’s Lot review – Stephen King’s small-town vampire rework lacks bite
The inevitability of even more Stephen King adaptations, in the wake of It’s record-breaking success back in 2017, has rarely felt associated with all that [more…]
