Category: Films
‘Someone who looked like me’: the women who created Black Barbie
You don’t have to be a Barbie girl to be interested in Black Barbie: A Documentary, the history of the first Black Barbie in 1980 [more…]
A Dry White Season review – Marlon Brando heads starry cast in ground-breaking apartheid drama
In the late 80s, there were a number of films about apartheid South Africa that somehow made the black experience dramatically subordinate to white liberal [more…]
Anouk Aimée was an entrancing 60s movie icon with an air of glamorous unknowability
The superbly aquiline beauty and patrician style of Anouk Aimée made her a 60s movie icon in France, Italy and everywhere else with a presence [more…]
‘He was a perfect, beautiful woman’: the female impersonator who became a 1920s star
Over a hundred years ago, a cis man rose to superstardom as a female impersonator. His proto-drag persona was so popular – and accepted into [more…]
Sleeping Dogs review – not quite total recall for Russell Crowe in over-the-top pulp-noir
Entirely preposterous as it is, there’s a fair bit of entertainment to be had in what might be called an erotic pulp-noir from screenwriter turned [more…]
‘Quite a scrap’: David Leland on the fight that Tim Roth started to get cast in Made in Britain
My first sighting of Tim Roth was from an office window that looked down on to Soho Square, close to Oxford Circus in London’s West [more…]
Jade review – big hair and high kicks from the new Foxy Brown
British martial artist and stunt performer Shaina West (she was one of the assassins in Black Widow and also appeared in The Woman King) graduates [more…]
‘Making this film was forbidden’: how Agnieszka Holland’s migrant thriller inflamed the Polish right
Director Agnieszka Holland is accustomed to attacks from the right in Poland, but her latest film, Green Border – about the plight of immigrants on the [more…]
Pongo Calling review – Roma lorry driver turns viral activist after political persecution
Centring on an ordinary man with extraordinary determination, Tomáš Kratochvíl’s documentary shows how one simple video can ignite a revolutionary movement. After emigrating to the [more…]
‘We’re excited’: arthouse hits draw young UK filmgoers to a summer of subtitles
This time last summer, British cinemas were holding their collective breath, looking forward to the biggest box office weekend of the year. “Barbenheimer” came to [more…]
