Category: Films
Alien: Romulus could be the back-to-basics Alien reboot we’ve all been waiting for
It has been so very, very long since we got the chance to really experience a great Alien movie, that it is easy to forget [more…]
Donald Sutherland was an irreplaceable aristocrat of cinema | Peter Bradshaw
Donald Sutherland was an utterly unique actor and irreplaceable star: possessed of a distinctive leonine handsomeness that the white beard of his latter years only [more…]
Ken Jeong: ‘I’d make a horrible spy. I would betray someone very quickly’
What’s your opinion on the adage about not working with animals and children, considering you’ve worked with Crystal the capuchin monkey several times? fandango87I’ve worked [more…]
Rite Here Rite Now review – soft-metallers Ghost offer skits and shreds in fan-service film
The concept of a cultural object as “Marmite” – ie you’ll either love it or hate it – is an overused one but may come [more…]
I Am: Céline Dion review – an earnest love letter from one of the last true divas
Minutes into I Am: Céline Dion, the beloved singer’s remarkably unguarded documentary chronicling her struggle with a rare neurological disorder, the queen of power ballads [more…]
Unoriginal sins: why does Russell Crowe keep making exorcism movies?
This week, a new Russell Crowe movie is released. The film concerns a demon that comes to inhabit a person, and the struggles of a [more…]
The Convert review – Guy Pearce tries to keep the peace in Māori period drama
Lee Tamahori’s stately period drama is based around a British settlement in New Zealand circa the 1830s, where Guy Pearce’s preacher protagonist attempts to keep [more…]
‘They ride, they drink, they get dangerous’: the blazing film inspired by the Hells Angels’ biggest rivals
Anyone less like a Hells Angel would be difficult to imagine. Yet Jeff Nichols – this genial, softly spoken director, with his pink face and [more…]
Diane von Fürstenberg: Woman in Charge review – hedonist fashion-biz phenom has tales to tell
So many fashion documentaries are frigid and vapid; this one, though, from film-makers Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, has a story to tell about someone [more…]
Something in the Water review – Bridezilla vs Jaws as shark stalks seagoing wedding party
One memorable moment in Jaws, the granddaddy of shark movies, has Robert Shaw’s grizzled Ahab-esque salty seadog tell the story of his gnarliest ever shark [more…]
