Category: Films
Film-maker Paul Schrader accused of sexually assaulting personal assistant
Paul Schrader, the writer of Taxi Driver and director of American Gigolo, has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, [more…]
Streaming: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy and the best older women age-gap movies
At this admittedly early stage of 2025, with all the noisy blockbusters of summer still ahead of us, the UK’s box-office report tells a nostalgic [more…]
‘An intellectual stuck in a Batman suit’: readers remember the genius of Val Kilmer
‘Unexpected kindness I have never forgotten’ I worked as a dialogue coach on Oliver Stone’s Alexander in 2003. Val was playing Alexander’s father, Philip II [more…]
The film fans who remade Jurassic Park: how an Australian town got behind a $3,000 ‘mockbuster’
This morning’s location: a field outside Castlemaine, Victoria. The air is thick with flies, attracted to the cow dung but ignoring the nearby dinosaur poo, [more…]
Raspberry scented weirdness: will Elio be Pixar’s wildest ride to date?
Pixar’s film-makers are famously asked to pitch three unique ideas when proposing new projects. In terms of Elio, unique is very much the operative word. [more…]
Peter Jewell obituary
The life of Peter Jewell, who has died aged 90, was indelibly entwined with that of the Scottish film director Bill Douglas. They were friends [more…]
Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One
People are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. [more…]
First trailer for Liam Neeson’s Naked Gun reboot released
The first footage has been released of Paramount’s upcoming reboot of the much-loved Naked Gun series of spoof police movies. The new film stars Liam [more…]
Meryl Streep in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie
Meryl Streep is in talks to play Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s upcoming Narnia film, according to reports. According to Nexus Point News, and confirmed by [more…]
‘Dead white men are what I’m legitimately interested in’: film’s foremost podcaster on resurrecting the classics
‘When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” So runs the most famous line from John Ford’s elegiac 1962 western The Man Who Shot Liberty [more…]
