Category: Films
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…]
The best films of 2024 in the UK so far
One Life Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler” who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty [more…]
Federer: Twelve Final Days review – teary-eyed portrayal of a legend’s last stand
The tears of Roger Federer, along with the tears of Rafael Nadal and even the tears of Novak Djokovic, are what finally give some point [more…]
Speed at 30: the greatest action movie of the 1990s
At a time of overwhelming entertainment bloat – budget, length, content, discussion – a ride back to the summer of 1994 and the brisk, brilliant [more…]
Memoir of a Snail review – charming, poignant tale of troubled twins
Like Britain’s Nick Park at Aardman, Australian stop-motion film-maker Adam Elliott has shown a natural talent for screenwriting comedy – and for fusing that with [more…]
Unsung Hero review – real-life journey of Christian music migrants from Australia
Given the current attitudes in what is now largely Republican Tennessee where this film is set, it’s somewhat surprising to see such a sympathetic depiction [more…]
