Category: Films
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock review – Kirk sacrifices all in the name of bromance
Forty years ago, the Star Trek movie franchise reached its Solaris stage with this mystic and melodramatic threequel, written and produced by TV veteran Harve [more…]
Freud’s Last Session review – what-if meeting of minds with Anthony Hopkins as the master analyst
Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a [more…]
Ultraman: Rising review – endearing kaiju animation battles the monster that is parenting
In this family superhero animation with a twist, the monster that must be grappled with by our hero is parenthood – and specifically baby-care. We [more…]
‘I didn’t discover rationality until I went to England’: Neil Jordan on Tom Cruise, sandwich-boarding and seeing his dad’s ghost
Neil Jordan has spent his career telling strange, twisting stories that have mesmerised, surprised and occasionally misfired. Mona Lisa, The Crying Game, The Company of [more…]
Inside Out 2 review – Pixar returns to emotional Mission Control for Riley’s teen years
The first Inside Out took us into the Mission Control operations centre within the mind of a kid, and showed us the five emotions amusingly [more…]
Russell Crowe: I’m ‘slightly uncomfortable’ with Gladiator 2
Russell Crowe has said that he’s “slightly uncomfortable” with the concept of a sequel to Gladiator in which he doesn’t feature. Crowe, who played the [more…]
‘We anchored ourselves in wild adventure!’ Tilda Swinton on her trippy film about learning, AI and neuroscience
‘This is a film about learning, full of questions, with not many answers,” announces Tilda Swinton at the start of her new documentary, The Hexagonal [more…]
Julia Louis-Dreyfus pushes back on Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘PC crap’ comments
Julia Louis-Dreyfus has pushed back at former co-star Jerry Seinfeld’s negative remarks about “political correctness” in comedy, saying that having “an antenna about sensitivities is [more…]
Death of a City review – poetic memorialisation of the destruction and rebuilding of Lisbon
First conceived in the weeks leading up to the birth of film-maker João Rosas’s first child, this documentary portrait of Lisbon was initially intended to [more…]
After the Winnie-the-Pooh slasher, now there’s a Mickey Mouse horror movie. This is not necessarily a bad thing
This year, the legendary Disney short film Steamboat Willie, the first film to feature Mickey Mouse, entered the public domain. In theory, that means this [more…]
