Category: Films
The Problem with People review – old-country lark takes on blarney-fuelled family feud
Never mind people. The problem with this comedy is the cliches. It could not be more Irish if it was dropped into a pint of [more…]
I regret glamorising the Kray twins, says producer of hit film
In the hit 1990 film The Krays, the East End gangsters were portrayed as “identical twins who rose from poverty to power”, “from obscurity to [more…]
‘I am the industry!’: Keke Palmer on being Hollywood’s queen of content
In an era when social media has turned us all into products to promote, Keke Palmer is the whole damn corporation. As a one-woman multimedia, [more…]
Bill Nighy: I stole complete works of Shakespeare to help me get into drama school
Bill Nighy once stole the complete works of William Shakespeare from a library to help him get into drama school – but says he now [more…]
Singham Again – third time around for Ajay Devgn’s supercop leading selection box of star names
Opening with a special shoutout to the Jammu & Kashmir police, this is the fifth entry in the so-called Cop Universe envisioned by producer-director Rohit [more…]
Mark Kermode on… composer John Williams, master of unforgettable blockbuster soundtracks
Some years ago I interviewed the British director Edgar Wright about his favourite soundtrack albums. I mentioned that, in the age before videos, I had [more…]
Juror #2: the curious case of the missing Clint Eastwood film
There is a mystery at the heart of Juror #2, the 40th film directed by Clint Eastwood and – given that he is now 94 [more…]
Alien: Romulus thrilled fans – how can its follow-up avoid the saga’s past mistakes?
Back in the 1990s, the Alien franchise’s biggest problem was its inability to dispose of its iconic characters once it became clear they no longer [more…]
Post your questions for Elizabeth Hurley
Elizabeth Hurley has spent the past three decades tirelessly making British culture a little bit more glamorous. She rose to fame in the early 1990s, [more…]
‘I wanted those 828 men not to be forgotten’: the Chinese documentary raising wartime ghosts
A little-known tragedy from the second world war is the subject of a documentary that has been a surprise hit in China and is the [more…]
